Are some Manhattanites oddly xenophobic towards Brooklyn? Not to mention Brookynites doing naked performance art, which isn't exactly a new thing. Women artists in particular have been doing this stuff since the 1960s. [VF]
Coney may be open, but Ruby's is still on hold. [Grub]
In the Panopticon Metropolis, luxury = taking a dump in front of friends, family, and the whole neighborhood. Maybe it's high-end performance art. [NYT] (See also: showcase on 7th)
Tiny narcissists get boot-camp lessons in empathy. [NYT]
Not everyone loves the iPhone. Virginia Heffernan finds it "like a lipsticky girl with a vodka drink. It usually does things in a cute way" and requires "so much attention, organization, explanation, praise, electricity." [NYT]
Atlantic Yards project leave neighborhood horribly blighted. [Gothamist]
Etherea records is very much gone. [FP]
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- Jeremiah Moss
- THE BOOK:
"We should all buy Jeremiah Moss’s book, Vanishing New York." --Sarah Jessica Parker
“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and cheap pierogi.” --Vanity Fair
"a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus Reviews
THE BLOG:
"the go-to hub for those who lament New York's loss of character." --Crain's
"No one takes stock of New York's changes with the same mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit as Jeremiah Moss." --Village Voice, Best of NY
“Jeremiah Moss…is the defender of all the undistinguished hunks of masonry that lend the streets their rhythm.” --Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
"One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification." --The Atlantic, Citylab
"Hyperbolic and combative, tireless and passionate." --Salon
The IPhone commercials leave me cold. The thing looks like Sulu's navigation panel on the enterprise.
ReplyDeleteI hardly use my cell phone, but if I did use one a lot I would want one with a keyboard that doesn't disappear.
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Kevin, I am your age. Trust me you would hate the iphone. It's like a very shiny brick. It's a pretty good mirror though, I use it to put on lipstick.
ReplyDeleteThat girl from the upper east side doesn't even have the decency to be embarrassed about what an idiot she is. She's like something out of Bonfire of the Vanities.
I always found Vanity Fair to be a bit pretentious but I do admit to casually skimming it in the past since there is material worth reading in most issues. Ms. Ahlborn's piece, however, is not only self-indulgent and elitist but also unimaginably vapid and insipid. It's not unusual to feel like you're being talked down to while reading Vanity Fair, but at least up until now it's been by knowledgeable snobs who are at least well-versed in the matters they're being snobbish about. That piece is mindless rubbish from a Carrie Bradshaw clone with apparently no concept whatsoever of the avant-garde and a great deal of contempt for anyone or anything that shatters her sheltered little transplanted Upper East Side worldview. Either that or it's brilliantly insidious satire.
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