Do we have to tip?

Today’s Times claims that Alix Weisz, who plays her harp in emergency and post-surgery room settings, calms patients’ heartbeats. Some patients, says the Times, wake up thinking they’re in heaven. Don’t know about you, but Recharger things this is a bad idea. Musicians who come, hat in hand, to his table are annoying enough. But at least they move on. This just sucks.

Posted in The City on August 29th, 2006 | 2 Comments » [ Share / Bookmark + ] 

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Hip-hop Laff-of-the-day

The woman who had three kids with assault and rap artist Busta Rhymes’ murdered bodyguard, Israel Ramirez, supports the rapper’s reluctance to talk to cops. “There’s half of me that wants him to speak, and half of me that understands,” Amelin Fernandez told The Daily News. I guess the part that understands gets cash support from Rhymes. “He takes care of me,”  she said en route to Walt Disney World.
Fast forward ten years:
“Mami,” asks one of her kids. “Did they [...]

Posted in The City on August 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment » [ Share / Bookmark + ] 

Jeter = Asshole

Check out Daily News columnist Mike Lupica’s piece on the big chill between Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. Lupica recounts an incident when Jeter and Rodriquez were going for the same pop-up, “Jeter finally bumping into A-Rod and the ball falling to the ground…the look Jeter – the one who was given the error on the play – gave A-Rod when it was over.” According to Lupica, Jeter considers the Yankee infield his “turf.”
In high school I played soccer with [...]

Posted in The City on August 21st, 2006 | No Comments » [ Share / Bookmark + ] 

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More proof we can’t survive without immigrants

Came across this interesting hut at the end of the Shore Parkway bike path.
Some states from the  Census Bureau: 35.2 million immigrants in this country–legal and illegal.
About half of the immigrants who’ve settled here in the past five years–about 3.7 million people (a very conservative estimate)–are illegal.
They leave, the country dies.

Posted in The City on August 12th, 2006 | No Comments » [ Share / Bookmark + ] 

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Another Reason Why I Must Live in Clinton Hill

Broken Angel on the corner of Quincy and Downing in Clinton Hill, a few blocks from Pratt is not–as Gothamist laughingly referred to it, a “Brooklyn tenement version of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (I seriously doubt the writer remembers his visit to the Sagrada Familia). It is pretty damn cool. Arthur Wood bought the building in 1971 (for $2000–ouch!), and has been working on it ever since. Two things I love about the building: viewed from a few blocks [...]

Posted in The City on August 5th, 2006 | 1 Comment » [ Share / Bookmark + ] 

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