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Stringer Bell: just another day at ‘The Office’
Last night's appearance by Idris Elba on The Office — the first of a half-dozen or so appearances by the man some of us cherish as the pensive drug dealer Stringer Bell on The…
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Clothes in Verse (and re-verse?) [by Victoria C. Rowan]
In honor of the Fashion Week shows circling the world's chicest cities, I'm sending a few down this cyber-catwalk: Fashion PlateThat high concept dish,restricted to a diet unbalanced bypretentious marshmallow fluff andstitches that catch…
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Disconnected Restaurant Dates [by Victoria C. Rowan]
When dating in NYC, singletons spend a lot of time in coffee shops, bars and bistros; these eateries become the backdrops and the food props in these mini-melodramas taking place between near-strangers. Below are…
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“This Guy” [by Nicole Santalucia]
This Guy I didn't want a boyfriend but there's this guy named Guy who keeps calling me like he's addicted to losing, as if he wants to date himself – sort of like how…
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Lost in Translation [by Victoria C. Rowan]
THE ENGLISH DON’T TRAVEL WELL FranglaisCuckoo for Coco and Piaf’s broken recordskips among the Orangerie terrinesthe Hall of Mirrors shatters thelune-de-miel over Maurice, ever the Chevalier Spanglishthe flittish flamenco queen’scastanets clitter in progressionsspangles skitter…
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For Today’s Flurry [by Victoria C. Rowan]
AN ACCELERATED ICE AGE An arctic Vesuvian ash buries the City alive. Across from the Museum of Natural History,a wooly homo sapiens stalks his trophy,his mammoth Mercedes SUV,frozen in its tracks. Alternating pick and…
