Monthly Archives: November 2009
Life on the Street
Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street, curated by the Sesame Workshop, is on until February 21, 2010 at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library. A treat for Sesame Street fans like me, this scattered … Continue reading
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West Side Story
The Broadway production of West Side Story, now playing at the Palace Theatre, is electric; the story of Tony and Maria, torn by their opposing ethnic groups, is timeless, and Bernstein’s score has an enduring freshness and vitality. The production … Continue reading
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Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach at the NYPL
Wes Anderson (director and co-writer of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) and Noah Baumbach (writer and director of Margot at the Wedding, The Squid and the Whale) last night conversed about their new film Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated … Continue reading
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Print Fair window-shopping
The 2009 International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair is on this weekend at the historic Park Avenue Armory, an amazing late nineteenth-century building with a massive, arched main hall that is much like a grand European train station shed. … Continue reading
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Beginner’s Guide to New York
Sesame Street is a great guide to life in New York. There’s the skit where the muppets take the subway, which is, according to them, “the biggest travel bargain in town, the longest-running show underground.” Then there’s Fat Blue in … Continue reading
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Watteau to Degas
Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection is on at The Frick Collection until January 10, 2010. Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a Dutch art connoisseur and collector, and the exhibition presents sixty-four delicate eighteenth- and nineteenth-century … Continue reading
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At the laundromat
My local laundromat is a place I look forward to visiting. I find it kind of therapeutic, and I attribute this to a number of factors: the cozy temperature; the clean, fresh smell; the gentle hum of heavy-duty washers and … Continue reading
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Beethoven and Bernstein
The New York Philharmonic‘s concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday night opened with the beauty and brilliance of Beethoven’s Egmont overture. The orchestra moved effortlessly through the ebbs and flows of the music, from the dramatic and deep opening … Continue reading
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