Is Mike Alaska the Champ?
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on February 28th, 2010 | 
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Julius C Lives!
Julius C performed at the corner of Broadway and Waverly, June 21, 2007, and they shook that tiny crowd. This is what rock and roll is supposed to be…young, dumb, and street.
Julius C, wherefore art thou?
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
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Can-Fantastic!
Canstruction, which just finished its run at the World Financial Center, teamed students, mentored by professional architects and engineers, who created humongous and slightly disturbing can structures. Made entirely of unopened cans (with an occasional cereal box or peanut butter jar), the sculptures varied wildly from a map of the world, a slice of pie with a fork, and a Quaker Oats jar (including, disconcertingly, the Quaker Man’s face), all made entirely of metal cans.
The exhibit will travel across the [...]
Posted in Arts & Events on November 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
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The Other Guys
EVEN WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP, THIS WRECKING BALL, RENTED FOR THE MOVE THE OTHER GUYS, IS A DOUBLE-TAKER. The Other Guys stars two sure-to-be-hasbeens, Will Ferrell and Marky Mark, in what we used to call a caper/comedy. If the film is half as cool as the wrecking ball, we might catch it on late-night TV.
Posted in Arts & Events, Books/Films/Media on November 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
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Maya Lin: Still Breathtaking
WHAT IS IT ABOUT MAYA LIN THAT MAKES SO MANY OTHER ARTISTS SEEM… IRRELEVANT? While not as monumental as her Vietnam Veterans Memorial, nor as sweeping as her Storm King-based “Bodies of Water,” her “2 x 4 Landscape” installation at PaceWildenstein is pretty breath-taking. Made entirely of two-by-four wood blocks standing vertically, the miniature landscape fills the room like an expanding lung. Around the edges, they stand side by side; closer to the middle, they stack on top of each [...]
Posted in Arts & Events on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
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Great Wheel Race: 2009
ASIDE FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND IT (multiple park rangers, passersby, matrons giving us faulty directions), the 2nd Annual Great Big Wheel Race this past Saturday, which took place at Central Park’s Great Hill this past Saturday, was mad fun. Brainchild of the ever-inventive Newmindspace, participants came with tricycles, skate boards, scooters, kids’ bikes—anything that was small with wheels. Kids, teens, adults, dressed in costumes, took turns riding down the hill. We thought it especially cool how Newmindspace chose [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
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F train not all bad
Sometimes, for reasons even our magnificent brains can’t understand, musicians enter a car and play magic. After these guys stopped, passengers clapped.
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on January 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
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This is your brain on drugs
Our trip to the Brooklyn Museum–the second largest art museum in the United States–was wildly successful (see below), but the new facade, designed by the firm of Cresson, Cresson, Cresson & Asshole, still vexes us. We don’t know much about architecture, but we do know that it should make some kind of, uh, sense. The glass addition to the old building, aside from having no apparent function looks like someone stuck high-tech chewing gum to a gorgeous antique bedpost. It [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on January 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
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Two more days to see The Amazing Station
Designed by “award-winning Broadway scenery and lighting designer Clarke Dunham and his artist/writer wife Barbara” (from the spine-tingling brochure), the Amazing Station is pretty cool. Four railroad scenes representing four vanished train-stations over the four seasons. For those of us who long for all-that-is-train (everything, that is, except for Metro North commuters obliviously screaming into cell phones), this is the place to be.
The Amazing Station: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Citigroup Building, 153 E. 53rd Street.
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on December 27th, 2006 | No Comments »
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At last: an actor who won’t sell out.
The above photo says it all: Julianne Moore, star of Broadway’s The Vertical Hour, has gotten serious. With all the holiday boozing (alone) and feasting (totally alone), Recharger missed this important news because, despite urgent phone calls from Ian Schrager, he failed to attend the recent Vertical Hour party at Schrager’s Royalton Hotel. The party, ostensibly to honor Moore’s Broadway vehicle about a young Iraq war-correspondent-turned-academic, reached heights of euphoria when the four-time Oscar nominee, along with Kate Winslet, [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on December 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
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