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The most beautiful thing in New York [by Jeremy Schmall]
Usually when I tell people what I think the most beautiful sight in New York is, they just kind of stare at me funny, as though I’m lying to them or making a joke…
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International Women’s Day, Israeli Style, at Balaboosta with Balaboostas by Stacey Harwood
Chef Einat Admony in her restaurant Balaboosta on International Women's Day 2011. Photo (c) Shahar Azran David and I take off for London tonight but before I get packing, I want to tell you…
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A movie you must see [by Jeremy Schmall]
Whatever else you’re doing either today or tomorrow, cancel your plans and go see “Pubic Speaking” at Film Forum (if you’re in New York) or find some other way to watch it if you’re…
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When Fiona Shaw Recited “The Waste Land” [11/23/96]
Went to “The Waste Land” last nightFiona Shaw’s one-woman showin a derelict theateron West 42nd Street it wasthe first poem of the 20th centuryin which bad sex is a metaphorfor the failure of civilizationwhich…
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Open City Closes
Open City magazine has published its last issue. It has had a great twenty-year run. They printed wonderful stuff. Poems from the magazine were chosen for The Best American Poetry, most recently in 2010;…
