Until now, we’ve given a pass to Dick Cavett, the former talk-show host, whose latter years have amounted to a creepy nostalgia tour–a regular New York Times column that endlessly reminds us of the icons and walking cliches he’s interviewed, always with some anecdote about how so-and-so returned the admiration (see his ode to John Wayne) . Although Cavett can never be accused of originality, he can be nailed for smarmy self-aggrandizement and re-using the same tired lines (he once [...]
Posted in The City on May 29th, 2010 | 
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Variously described as “a frat party on steroids on a boat,” or swarming with “People I Hated in College,” or polluted with “wall-to-wall ex-frat boys,” The Frying Pan is actually a historic lightship, originally built in 1929, formerly at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, now docked at Pier 66 near Chelsea piers. It has filthy toilets and crappy service (or is it the other way around?), and looks as if it were raised from the ocean floor yesterday…but we [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on May 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
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We love secret restaurants like Crif Dogs and the (reportedly) ultra-violent Backroom, but they are in Squaresville, Manhattan. Which is why we love Benchmark, a Park Slope boîte, tricky to find, unless you keep an eye out for the Second Street menu on a lectern. Once though the courtyard behind Loki Lounge, you come upon a gentleman’s club ambiance specializing in American Kobe-style steak (served with goat cheese whipped potatoes) to be eaten while gazing at exposed brick dotted with [...]
Posted in The City on May 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
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What we like best about Ricardo Hernandez are his fabric collages and sketches; they give us night terrors.
What we like least about Ricardo Hernandez is what he says about his art:
“In my work,” he said, during our recent visit to his 106th studio, “I try to convey the weaknesses and strengths of man (both physically and emotionally) by using a cocktail of seemingly delicate materials, like fabrics, strings, wood, wire, glue and others, to make robust sculptures that echo the [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on May 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
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