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Category Archives: Books/Films/Media
The Worst Book Ever
Dear Mr. Coelho: Here at Recharger The Dog, we have a rule: never read a bestseller recommended by more than one person. Ignoring our own advice, we started The Alchemist with trepidation. It began with a cliché that we’ve come … Continue reading
Fake Blood
To: Leo DiCaprio From: Recharger The Dog Re: Blood Diamond. Dear Leo: Saw your film, “Blood Diamond.” You recall that after The Aviator, we said you looked like a 12-year-old with a fake mustache, and that your naked scene in … Continue reading
Island at the Center of the World: by Russell Shorto
Dear Mr. Shorto: Trademark your name; I will drink any chocolate milk called Shorto. As for your enlightening, lugubrious history of New Amsterdam—Manhattan–I was disturbed for the following reasons: It gave me a creepy case of the academics. I did … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Oh Sandra
IT WAS WITH TREMBLING FINGERS that Recharger dug this week’s issue of Time Out New York from a garbage can on Third Avenue, spine-thrilled with antipation for the Sandra Oh interview on page 72.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
To: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors, Freakonomics. Dear Steven and Stephen, Having read Malcolm Gladwell’s rave, having understood and loved the book’s premise—that hidden statistics we don’t want to look at tell the real story—we expected a … Continue reading
Posted in Books/Films/Media
Tagged freakonomics, non-fiction, reviews, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning
Son of Sam. The Blackout Reggie’s 3 for 3 Bella, Mario, Ed, Abe Arguably the freakiest summer in New York history. Yet…the book is oddly, frustratingly flat.
Posted in Books/Films/Media, The City
Tagged Jonathan Mahler, non-fiction, reviews, the Bronx
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Please Kill Me, The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
May 21, 2006 Legs McNeile and Gillian McCain New York, NY Dear Sir and Madam: Just finished your magnificent book, Please Kill Me, and although I found it a fascinating, disturbing, ultimately-depressing page-turner, I have two problems: First, you never … Continue reading
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Tagged Gillian McCain, Legs McNeile, non-fiction, punk rock, reviews
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things By Arundhati Roy As the world sinks into pathology, as my kids drift further from me, as I creak towards 53 years—pot-bellied, lonely, strange, starved for affection, grieving lost family life, I ask, Why read … Continue reading