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| Apr 6, 2005 |
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Jan Yoors redux |
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By the grace of Google, Kore Yoors found my recent post about him and his father, Jan Yoors, and contacted me. It was...
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| Mar 28, 2005 |
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Christina Olsons hus |
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The translation, sort of:Exactly 10 years ago this Easter Weekend, while I was at grad school in Washington DC, I was faced with...
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| Sep 11, 2004 |
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September 11 |
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My September 11 writings, chronologically....
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| Aug 26, 2004 |
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Murder by numbers |
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Via Strang's Blog: Olle Wästberg, until just now Sweden's consul general in New York, returns to Sweden on the wings of an an...
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| Jun 16, 2004 |
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Summers on the Jersey Shore |
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This is an exception to the two-week no posting promise. I promise.In this week's Prairie Home Companion [RealAudio], a truly standout edition, including:...
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| May 20, 2004 |
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Commodifying Nick Denton |
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Greg Lindsay's article in Business 2.0 on Nick Denton — an unauthorized mini-biography of sorts of blogging's greatest living impresario — irked the...
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| Mar 18, 2004 |
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Commute |
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The weather turned balmy this week, above freezing even, and so I shed layers and took the iPod to work yesterday, the extra...
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| Jan 27, 2004 |
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Marshall in The New Yorker |
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Joshua Micah Marshall, of Talking Points Memo fame, has what he calls "a review essay on the new literature of empire" out in...
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| Jan 17, 2004 |
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Whining and dying in NYC |
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There is, of course, little sympathy from these quarters for complaints from New York about how damn cold it is. Why exactly kids...
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| Dec 21, 2003 |
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Freedom Tower |
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Freedom TowerFirst, read Felix's detailed tour of Freedom Tower, unveiled Friday. He was my eyes and ears for this post. What follows is...
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| Dec 13, 2003 |
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A post of whose kind there are far too many on the web |
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I'm back from being away from the web for a week, precipitated by an exploding power adapter whose replacement I kept postponing the...
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| Dec 1, 2003 |
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The Letter, part 2: Finding Margaretha Lennerbring |
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[If you haven't yet read The Letter, an earlier post about a letter I found on a New York City sidewalk sent to...
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| Nov 9, 2003 |
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Brave News World |
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Ten days or so ago, Felix had a screed against long, elaborate stories in the New York Times. He makes some good points,...
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| Oct 23, 2003 |
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Photo competition |
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Who among my friends gets to win photography competitions? Franzi, that's who! (She's now a Leica richer.) The photo is of Olivier and...
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| Oct 23, 2003 |
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40th Anniversary Issue |
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Why do book reviews have to be so damn descriptive? All too often, one need only choose between reading the book or reading...
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| Oct 4, 2003 |
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New York state of mind |
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I'm in a New York state of mind tonight, missing the city. I was put there by an article by Gary Shteyngart in...
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| Jun 28, 2003 |
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The letter |
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In the summer of 1999 my morning commute went thus: I would walk up St. Marks Place to the N/R subway under Broadway,...
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| Jun 11, 2003 |
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Rubadubbing the wrong way |
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NYCulture vulture Felix Salmon reviews Dramaten's New York production of Ibsen's Ghosts at BAM, directed by Ingmar Bergman. He can't get over the...
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| Apr 16, 2003 |
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Save the Robots |
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In London yesterday morning, BBC television news carried a quitessential New York story: a bouncer had been stabbed and killed by a patron...
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| Apr 3, 2003 |
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Blue Karmann Ghia |
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Fergus McCormick has his music website up, timed to correspond with the release of his eponymously named debut album. I'm mentioning it because...
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| Mar 24, 2003 |
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9/11 photos |
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These are some of the pictures I took on September 11, 2001, from the roof of my apartment at 109 St. Marks...
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| Dec 23, 2002 |
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World Trade Center proposals: |
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Some of the skyscrapers proposed last week for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center might be grand, but what's the point of...
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| Dec 16, 2002 |
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Demean Streets? |
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David Denby's review of Scorcese's Gangs of New York in The New Yorker finds too many faults with it to even call it...
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| Nov 21, 2002 |
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Meaner Streets |
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The hype for Scorcese's Gangs of New York is ratcheted up a notch, and I for one hope it's all true. Except for...
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| Oct 19, 2002 |
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The faint praise I have ever heard |
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The IHT's People section today carries a quote attributed to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, about his fiction and literary editor...
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| Sep 25, 2002 |
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Virtually There |
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I am listening to WNYC on the stereo. It's 4 am in New York so the BBC is on. Soon, the news shows...
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| Aug 13, 2002 |
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Smoke-free markets |
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I can't find the original results or the methodology behind this poll, and it sounds fishy too me, but the NYC Coalition For...
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| Aug 9, 2002 |
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No wonder this rat is leaving the ship |
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It's a favorite conceit of mine that wherever I happen to live is the absolute coolest place in the world. For the past...
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| Aug 2, 2002 |
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Suba rue |
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I wanted to reserve a table for 8 for tonight at Suba. They wanted my phone number. Then they wanted my email. Why?...
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| Jul 20, 2002 |
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Transforming the East Village |
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Sometimes I wonder... Usually, playing word association with the words "transformer" and "East Village" leads directly to Lou Reed's classic album and...
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| Jul 18, 2002 |
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End of the world as we know it |
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Sign I saw at a 1st-Avenue deli yesterday: "Marlboro Lights: $6.66"...
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| Jul 18, 2002 |
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World Trade Center update |
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I agree with Felix that I don't really like any of the proposals; they remind me too much of Canberra, or Brasilia--mainly because...
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| Jul 18, 2002 |
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The store as modern design museum |
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Apple is opening its flagship store here in Soho today, and the New York Times treats it as a major industrial design event....
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| Jul 16, 2002 |
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World Trade Center proposals |
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The 6 official proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site have been unveiled and are up on the web. Make sure to...
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| Jul 12, 2002 |
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Emerging trend watch |
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Clubs have always had DJs. They would bring their records and spin. More recently, DJs have been been using laptops to create live...
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| Jun 26, 2002 |
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Cortland Street stop, N/R |
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For 4 years up until September 10, 2001, I often took the N/R subway to work, getting on at 8th Street and getting...
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| Jun 24, 2002 |
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Cup Runneth Over-time |
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Another reason why the east coast is better than the west coast: New York cops don't care if England fans are screaming their...
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| Jun 17, 2002 |
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A favorite east village haunt, |
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A favorite east village haunt, Bar Veloce, was the site of a bizzare hostage taking/shoot-out with police last night....
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| Jun 4, 2002 |
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Blog map of NYC |
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Blog maps: what a great idea, and probably the next big thing in the blogging universe. Of course, New York is leading the...
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| Jun 4, 2002 |
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Apartment 5E |
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There is no denying it: I will do silly things for the sake of art. if you are in New York in July,...
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| May 17, 2002 |
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Giuliani on immigration |
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Hereís yet another example of mainstream American social conservatives putting on their silly hats when it comes to parsing Europeís lurch towards illiberal...
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| May 7, 2002 |
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Perfect Day (May 5, 2002) |
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On Sunday (May 5, 2002) New York experienced one of those periodic perfect days famously eulogized by Lou Reed. The weather was exactly...
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| Feb 11, 2002 |
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Zen One on St. Marks |
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Six years ago Tom Atkins and Uta Harnischfeger introduced me to Sandobe, a miniscule 4-table Korean sushi den on 11th & 1st run...
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| Oct 15, 2001 |
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Urban tribes |
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Felix alerted me to this New York Times Sunday Magazine article. It's a very accurate description of the social life my friends and...
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| Sep 17, 2001 |
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After September 11: Vermont |
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On a whim, Itay, Rosa and I rented a car last Thursday afternoon and drove it to Northern Vermont. With nothing to keep...
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| Sep 12, 2001 |
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September 11: Night |
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I've been able to reach most friends in NYC and so far everybody I know is fine. I'm home now, it's night outside,...
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| Sep 11, 2001 |
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September 11 |
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I'm fine, so are Matthew, Kim, Itay, Rosa, Felix, Michelle, Liz Wollman, Zach and Julia--I've talked to or seen them all. [Sept 12--also...
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| Jun 25, 2001 |
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San Francisco vs New York |
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Pitting San Francisco's Haight Street versus New York's St. Marks Place is a fair contest; after all, the streets serve as twin coastal...
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