On a cold day in late January, Paul LaRosa, an author and CBS producer, and his wife, Susan, were shopping for cheese at the Park Slope/Gowanus Indoor Winter Farmer’s Market at Third Avenue and Third Street when they struck up a conversation at one of the stands with a tall, clean-cut yoga instructor who had just returned from studying meditation in Thailand.
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How much Portland is in “Portlandia?”
The new show, which premiered Friday on IFC, depicts a eco-friendly wonderland where the denizens of this magical Portlandia enjoy a rigorous pursuit of the liberal ideal. There are militant feminist bookstores, restaurants with overly extensive information about your dish’s living experience on a sustainable farm, and the openness Read More
Finally Red Hook may get the public transportation solution Brooklynites have been auditioning for all these years.
“City eyes putting transit dinosaurs back on track in Red Hook, Brooklyn,” reads this morning’s New York Daily News headline. Streetcars, which seemingly went the way of bowler hats and impromptu musical numbers, could be the latest Read More
Times They Are a-Booin’
To the Editor:
Thanks for the thoughtful review of Bob Dylan’s new album and current incarnation [“Fix Is In on Dylan: Modern Times Worst Since Self-Portrait,” Ron Rosenbaum, Edgy Enthusiast, Sept. 11]. I don’t agree wholeheartedly, but I appreciate Mr. Rosenbaum’s well-pleaded case that allowed me to think deeper Read More
Or just too damn big?
Last week, Brownstoner broke the news on this Scarano-designed 190-foot, 80,000-square-foot mixed-use “freestanding sculptural element placed within the cityscape” in Fort Greene at Fulton and Portland streets.
Well, now Set Speed features a poster of what we can only guess is the start of a protest against the Read More
Micah Sifry, a student of online politics who edits the Personal Democracy Forum, emailed over this response to the Newsday op-ed, which I thought was worth posting in full.
(Sifry’s also a former Rasiej aide, who said he’ll be posting a post-mortem of that campaign on his site soon. In case you Read More
In the good old days, perky, blue-eyed Jane Powell made enough soda-fountain musicals at MGM to give herself a lifelong milkshake hangover. Now, at 71, she prefers champagne. But some things never change. She hasn’t appeared on the screen for 42 years, yet the girl-next-door-to-a-gold-mine is still fresh as a peach blossom, weighs 99 pounds, Read More
Notes from All Over. On March 23, I flew to San Francisco to rendezvous with Francis for the second half of his spring break. I have always considered “Bagdad-by-the-Bay,” as my friend the late Herb Caen, greatest of American city columnists, nicknamed the place, to be my second city. Because my mother lived most of Read More
Something I read made me so nervous that I bit all my fingernails off. One of Al Gore’s old buddies in Nashville, this guy named John Warnecke who was a reporter with Mr. Gore at The Tennessean , said that, up until 24 years ago, the Vice President was a much bigger pot smoker than Read More
