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...much more Mean Streets than Manhattan. "You couldn't get a cab to take you down there," she recalls of her Tribeca neighborhood. But she fell in with a community of artists and made money fixing up loft spaces with Philip Glass, who was driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...
...spicy hors d’oeuvre. This moment appears to be directly inspired by Proust’s episode of the madeleine—in fact, André Aciman’s entire second novel reads like an exercise in bringing a feverish Proustian narrative to twenty-first century Manhattan. This novel, which blurs the boundaries between supermarket romance and literary fiction, mainly relies on Aciman’s ease at spinning together long, hypnotic sentences to fuel the heavily psychological and minimally plot-driven narrative. However, the same characteristics that give Aciman his writerly credentials—his finely...
...Byzantine art and Dante’s “Inferno” as other important early influences. Meaningful later influences include Sergei Eisenstien, Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol. When Tambellini was sixteen, he moved to Syracuse, New York, where he attended art college. In 1959 he moved to Manhattan, where he co-founded and opened the Black Gate Theater to show experimental films in 1967. In 1976 he moved to Cambridge. For eight years he served as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in media. According...
...about-face, President Obama abandoned his plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters in a lower Manhattan civilian court, days after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg rescinded his support. The trials, which could last years, would have cost as much as $1 billion in security in the city's financial district. The Justice Department is now considering other locations, such as military bases and prison complexes. Meanwhile, several U.S. Senators announced Feb. 2 that they would move to cut off funding for the federal trials unless the Obama Administration tries the suspects in military...
Preparing for the waves, Banner tries to center himself, to push aside thoughts that a giant wave could grind him against the spiky reef that a surfer described to me as being "like an underwater Manhattan, with all its skyscrapers." Says Banner: "Being mentally prepared is not having that stuff mess with you." He adds, "You need to feel lots of air in your body, light." He will wait on his choice of surfboard until the morning of the contest, when he sees the size and direction of the massive Pacific swells calved from a storm off northern Japan...