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The rising…costs.
The Times does a little op-ed for the sticks, noting that Frederic Schwartz is having a little trouble with the — um, sorry, this is obvious — spiraling costs for his proposed memorial for Westchester County. His initial claim that the project could be built for $200,000 turned out to be off by a factor […]
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Practice, practice, practice.
On February 18, you can — oops, so much for service journalism. Anyway, the Van Alen Institute just opened the exhibition showcasing the finalists of their Civic Exchange competition — the program of which was to develop an information kiosk for Lower Manhattan — and the winner, Antenna. Single images of the finalists are available […]
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Shhh, don’t tell him about Moss and what too much bilious, undulating transparency gets you.
These days, you just aren’t a playa unless you are renovating. Can anyone name a museum in this town that isn’t undergoing, or just completing, an expansion of some kind? Last week, the Museum of the Moving Image got on the bandwagon, presenting initial sketches of their renovation courtesy of Leeser Architects (don’t go to […]
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Sweet Childs O’ Mine.
Feel the burn, Dave-O! We’re liking this Ouroussoff fella more every day. First he tells Riley that he’s a lazy suckup, and now he gives us the bullet points on the Dean of American Mediocrity, David Childs. Are you ready for your way-too-close-up, Mr. Childs? This excerpt clearly skirts the edge of ‘fair use,’ but […]
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New York: America’s Best Mortage Interest Deduction Opportunity.
Funny, I thought the new slogan Bloomberg was pushing was a craven acknowledgement of the impossibility of an average wage earner being able to purchase real estate.
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Gates Day unhhh.
So getting up at 6:00 AM on four hours sleep for a week both attenuates one’s posting schedule and increases one’s respect for anyone with both a labor-intensive job and a social-intensive calendar. Just don’t say I don’t suffer for art. The remainder of the week doesn’t produce any celebrity sightings, just lots of Germans. […]
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Gates Day One.
The ‘ballroom’ at the Boat House is not as grand as I would have assumed. It certainly doesn’t hold all 600 of us. There isn’t enough coffee, but there is plenty of cocoa and pumpkin loaf. And for once, my last name does not land me in the most egregious line. I celebrate this by […]
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We told you someone had to watch Rampe.
Kevin Rampe, of whom no one believes his continued postulations that it is made of sugarplums and candy canes, again finds himself on the short end of the stick. Turns out that even the EPA, a toothless patsy for the Bush administration (these are the folks that said repeatedly that the area around the WTC […]
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Gates Day Zero.
By the time this posts, I’ll be loose somewhere in Central Park, where, if the suspicions of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are correct, I’ll be mobbed by journalists from Chad and the Maldives, wanting to know the terribly interesting story of how I came to be at the center of the most… something — biggest, important, […]
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Gate-d.