By Steve Cohen 7/30/08 11:46pm

Wasted Again: What Can We Do With All of That Garbage?

As summer heats up, our thoughts return to garbage–specifically New York City’s garbage. As I’ve mentioned before, it would be hard to invent a more environmentally damaging, or more expensive system of waste management, than the one we use. To reiterate–in New York City we collect the garbage that residents place on the curb and Read More

By Staff 11:39pm

In a Romantic City, On a Business Trip…Without Josh

LAURIE:

Dear Josh:

I have been alone in Barcelona for about eight hours, the last three of which were spent sleeping in my little hotel room. It’s 8:30 P.M. and the sun is still fairly high in the sky, thanks to the absence of daylight savings time. My room overlooks a paved and red-painted Read More

By Staff 4/17/06 10:25am

City Can’t Get It Up

Barcelona’s urban landscape is putting New York to shame.

In recent years, the Spanish city has restored the public use of a beach, built a highway to connect the town center with the outskirts, converted a power plant and, well, just made themselves look sexier. The urban renewal initative has even attracted a number of Read More

By Staff 3/28/06 8:24am

Tuesday: New York is Boring!


The Mies Barcelona chair.

  • The man to blame for Mies Barcelona chairs disappears to Miami, land of tawdriness, to dispense a lesson, we assume. (New York)
  • New York and London are boring. It’s those “backwards” cities that are the future now–not those troubled ones, the ones with an elite class. And, Read More

    • By Michael Calderone 3/06/06 12:00am

    Where Are You, Whit? Criterion Does Metropolitan

    Midway through Metropolitan, the preppy cast riffs on Luis Buñuel’s unflattering portrayal of the upper class, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Based on the title alone, Charlie, a pessimistic know-it-all, feels that he went to see the film under false pretenses. He simply can’t “imagine a less fair or convincing portrait.” Nick, the group’s Read More