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A More Whimsical Note [by Eleanor Goodman]
My first summer in Shanghai, I horrified my female Shanghainese coworkers by daring to walk around outside. It wasn’t that they were worried that I would suffer from heatstroke in the humid 95-degree weather,…
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The Delacroix Quiz [by David Shapiro]
A Test for David Lehman's Fan Club (and Delacroix's) (Answers coming up in a few days) Winner gets free colour collage by DJS! l. What great violinist did Delacroix paint 2. What tubercular…
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Consider the Lobster and the Marinating Cat [by Eleanor Goodman]
My hometown, Buffalo, NY, isn’t famous for much. We’ve got Buffalo chicken wings and the ill-fated Buffalo Bills. There’s SUNY Buffalo and Lake Erie and the faded glory of the Erie Canal. But mostly,…
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Who Wrote Frank O’Hara’s Poems?
They've been doing it to Shakespeare for centuries. They claim that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare. Leave aside for the moment that this sentence exemplifies what Wittgenstein called nonsense. Think instead of the authentic pleasure…
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Fred & Ginger at the Film Forum, August 24
Megin Jimenez reports that an Astaire-Rogers double-bill festival is in progress at the Film Forum on Houston Street in NYC. We missed Swing Time, the best of them all, on Tuesday the 17th, but…
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Tonight in Central Park: Tom Healy, Jehanne Dubrow, Terrence Hayes
6:30 PM: Be there! Central Park–The Arsenal 830 Fifth Avenue(at 64th Street)New York, NY 10065
