Archives for September 2006
Reel Life
Watching cult favorite director Wong Kar Wai film “My Blueberry Nights,” — his first American movie — on the streets of Soho last week, got us thinking again about how different Movie New York is from real life New York. We recall, for example, couple years back, the groan that erupted from the audience when Jack Lemmon, in The Apartment, casually mentions his Central Park West rent (something like $85 per month). This also got us thinking about other [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media on September 28th, 2006 | 
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Jackass Number Three
SOMEWHERE UP IN THE SKY WHERE LATE HUSBANDS BITTERLY WATCH EX WIVES WHOOPING IT UP, Dr. Nicholas Bartha must be wishing he were even deader. We remember him blowing up his brownstone last summer (killing himself in the process) in a desperate attempt to stop the ex Mrs. Bartha from getting the property. Now we learn the bidding deadline for the house passed Tuesday September 26th at three pm. Top bids will be selected by Thursday September 28th; the contract [...]
Posted in The City on September 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Wet Dream
NEXT TIME YOU SEE A SAND HOG, one of the guys saving us from the worst environmental disaster in history, give him a big Recharger hug.
Two water tunnels have been quenching us since 1917 and 1936, respectively, about 1.2 billion gallons of water daily. But the pipes and valves have seen no repairs since the 1930s–you can’t just off the water to make repairs.
Since the 1970s, when construction began on Water Tunnel No 3, the genormous project designed to save [...]
Posted in The City on September 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Bollywood in New York
That was Bollywood heart throb, Saif Ali Khan along with comedian Javed Jaffrey on 42nd Street and 6th Avenue shooting their new film, Ta Rum Pum Pum. Because the doe-eyed Saif Ali Khan is box office dynamite in his native India, and because he has very cool sideburns, and because the recent Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was also filmed here, we hope this Bollywood-in-New York thing is a trend.
– Anjalee Daryani
Posted in Books/Films/Media on September 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Superbug Returns
According to an August 2004 “repeated surveillance” study done by The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), re-released this month, 85,386 people in New York City live with HIV, and the disease is on the rise in most New York City communities.
Homosexual men made up the largest percentage with a reported 61% of an estimated 27,689 new cases. Among females, 77% were infected through heterosexual contact. The infection rate through intravenous drug use accounted for 15% of male infections [...]
Posted in The City on September 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Black and Puerto Rican Babies Die
The NYC Health Department reports that while infant mortality rates (IMR) decreased in New York City last year, from 6.1 infant deaths to 6.0 (per thousand), minorities still suffer. African-Americans mortality rates have dropped from 11.6 in 2004 to 9.7 (per thousand), and 7.5 to 6.7 among Puerto Ricans. Yet these groups have the highest IMR rate in New York City, though not as high as the national average of 6.8 deaths per 1000.
– Nicole De Leon
Posted in The City on September 26th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Geo, the man with the teeny-weeny guitar at Union Square
In his dog-eat-dog hurry to make a buck, Recharger sometimes forgets to stop and smell the music. The cool thing about Geo is his teeny weeny, um, guitar. Geovanni Suquillo, from Valle de Chillos, Ecuador, lives in Astoria, Queens and his teeny guitar is called a charango. For 12 years, he’s been part of the Music Under New York program (MUNY), run by the MTA, (Recharger loves the MTA), playing his charango in the subways three times a week. The [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on September 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Duh
Back in 1979, a mere pup, Recharger picked apples in Washington State’s Winatchee Valley, earning a whopping $8 per bin, about $60 per day for him and his partner.
This he learned: NEARLY ALL THE PICKERS IN THE VALLEY ARE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. So he has followed the anti-immigrant debate with more-than-passing interest, knowing that our fruit and vegetables come from the hands of undocumented workers, and if there were no undocumeneted workers–a situation most Americans desire–then we would have no fruit [...]
Posted in The City on September 22nd, 2006 | No Comments »
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Memo to self: Brooklyn is worthy
Bicycle + Willingness-to-get-lost = Joy
Wedding? newborn? bar mitzva? — doesn’t matter. Recharger thanks them.
Posted in The City on September 21st, 2006 | No Comments »
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If Only We Could Spill A Starbuck On Our Lap
RECHARGER WANTS TO HUG THE QUEENS WOMAN suing Starbucks because they wouldn’t honor her free drink coupon. When Kelly Coakley, 23, took the coupon to one of the coffee empire’s outlets in Queen, she was told it was no longer valid. So she did exactly what Starbucks did when it didn’t like a lowly cartoonist who, some years back, created a Starbucks logo parody—she sued, for $114 million—the approximate cost of one coffee a day for all the people [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on September 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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