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...nuanced urbanite characters. Each has a distinct, believable personality driven by vulnerabilities that inevitably reveal themselves over the course of the story. Between the moments of emotional nakedness you get to enjoy the easy banter of smart friends. It's like eavesdropping on the table next to yours at Balthazar...
Bored with brioche? Then you're just in time for Balthazar owner Keith McNally's latest New York City restaurant--a Lower East Side dive called Schiller's Liquor Bar. McNally promises there will be no VIP reservation lines, only "outcasts and layabouts." "It's a place where anyone can go," he says. The equally accessible menu features everything from fried-oyster po' boys to pork chops, all for less than...
...Balthazar is one of the toughest tables in New York, but Lawson has a private reservation number, so we are escorted to a large booth across from Ed Norton and Salma Hayek. "I've been very brutal about the cheese," she says after eliminating two subpar goat cheeses from the Balthazar selection. She also has strong opinions about the wine. "It needs to breathe for several generations. It will be very good one day." The desserts, however--pineapple upside-down cake, fruit focaccia and tarte tatin--appeal to her in all their Rubenesque unsubtlety. And as she removes the last...
...stories are of an equally unconventional nature. Schalken's "Balthazar" is subtitled "Part III: In Apple Blossom Time," and even if we had the benefit of parts one and two, it seems unlikely to satisfy our need for obvious answers. Using a graphical style that combines hand-drawing and computer imagery, "Balthazar" wordlessly captures fragments of a schoolgirl's romantic fantasies. Linear moments, like a handsome teacher reaching out to touch a pretty colleague, are interrupted by panels of the girl dancing, until the entire page gets filled with swirling patterns of people in movement. Breaking down time into fragments...
...DIED. BALTHUS, 92, reclusive French-born artist, considered one of the finest realist painters of the 20th century; in Rossiniere, Switzerland. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola to a Polish family living in Paris, Balthus was best known for his provocative portrayals of adolescent girls. He was one of the few artists to exhibit his work at the Louvre while still alive...