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Category Archives: Books/Films/Media
A Bookstore That’s Not Mean to Puppies
Because, despite today’s spring-like weather, the world still sucks and we wanted to say something mean about someone, we dropped in at the Housing Works Bookstore and Café’, located on Crosby Street, and our faith in humanity was slightly restored. … Continue reading
Posted in Books/Films/Media, Food & Fashion
Tagged bookstore, cafe, Housing Works, Soho
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Die! Elmo, Die!
We saw these two several weeks back, during the non-stop swoon-fest over Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary, and we just had to puke. Are we the only people on earth whose bodies haven’t been taken over by pods and who KNOW … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Rule #1: if critics love it, it sucks.
WE HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT LIKE SCARFACE AND GOODFELLAS, but when it comes to pure shmaltz, American Gangster takes the cake. The “true” story chronicles Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington). a heroin dealer who adopts the financial wizardry … Continue reading
Motherless Brooklyn
Here’s the thing: you are Jonathan Lethem, bookish writer, raised by bohemian parents in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn, as a kid read a lot — books, magazines, the newspaper — graduated high school and went to college. Now, … Continue reading
Best book about 9/11
THOUGH EVERY TV SET IN THE WORLD WAS TUNED TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON SEPT 11, those trapped in the North Tower had no idea that the South Tower had collapsed. And we who watched from our rooftops (see … Continue reading
Posted in Books/Films/Media, The City
Tagged Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, non-fiction, reviews
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The best at rest.
Two things about Molly Ivins, who passed today of cancer at 62, made us grit our teeth in envy — she was tall and she was funny. In astonishing contrast to the self-important boobs and sheep-like prigs who pretend to … Continue reading
Why not just stab us?
Before we picked it up, Atonement fit all our don’t-read-this-suck-ass-thing criteria: a) it is a Big Important Book b) it is a bestseller and c) it came highly recommended by a lot of people. Think The Kite Runner. And for … Continue reading
Who farted?
Call us naive, but we are a teensy shocked that the three statuettes Dreamgirls won at last night’s Golden Globes were not hooted off the stage. While we were eternally grateful to the foreign journalists who last year bestowed a … Continue reading
Raymond Chandler: flawed master.
Pick-up on Noon Street, by Raymond Chandler. Chandler is about style. Fashion, interiors, language–spare, readable, cynical language. The language of people wounded by life, clinging to particles of self-respect. Those are Chandler’s strengths. Plot is not his strength. After reading … Continue reading