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  1. I do like traveling but the great part is when you really love home and you head back. Trouble-free flying and JetBlue bought me a number of free drinks because the crew can’t be bothered with the whole charging thing. I really will write up Partage which was excellent. The filet at Herbs & Rye was meh, but it was a $30 steak rather than a $60 steak, see above. I thought I had already posted this but they couldn’t offer any cocktails with Chartreuse. The supply is so restricted that most of it goes to the casino-resorts and they have a small allowance every month. If I posted that in some other thread forgive me, having deja vu.
  2. As reported on the Las Vegas thread, the classic cocktail bar I visited was out of Chartreuse. I discovered that because I ordered a Bijou (c.1900 but revived by Dale DeGroff). Home this evening I made one myself and it’s very good. But I made it with the last of my Chartreuse. Chartreuse hunt is on. Oh, equal parts gin, Chartreuse and sweet vermouth, but some of us nudge the gin up a little.
  3. People have an opinion about where you live. I am not innocent. I work with a company where everyone is remote and I constantly ask myself, why would you live *there*? But we’re all different. I have lived in Harlem for four years. I have lived in a bunch of places in the city that no one has opinions about. Boy do people have opinions about Harlem. All smiley-face positive. The most frequent response when I tell people where I’m from is “Oh, I hear it’s a good place now.” These are white people of course. I also get, “Oh, interesting.” Yesterday I did get a recommendation for Harlem Biscuit Co from an Atlanta native who had visited recently and was a plausible judge of biscuits. In an Uber tonight, a centro-European guy who had been to NYC once said, “So it’s no ghetto any more? When did it stop being ghetto?” At least that’s direct. Tomorrow morning, home to Harlem.
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    Richard Serra

    Years of walking around his torques and trying to grasp how they actually powerfully charge and change the space around them. And then there’s the infinitely beautiful and long-term changing surfaces. But also the dramatic black paint stick works on (I think) paper that one of my artist friends understatedly described as “very strong.”
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    Joe Lieberman

    Was he involved in No Labels? Don’t answer that, it’s political and I have Google. I just mistyped “that” and spellcheck suggested “Tuareg.” ETA: Wow, they are out of Chartreuse. This shortage is a real thing. The casinos get the lion’s share and an independent bar like this gets a limited monthly allocation. A big corporation needs to seize this from the monks.
  6. I congratulate myself for getting off-strip again tonight, this time to Herbs & Rye, recommended by the Partage bartenders (it’s nearby). A long list of classic cocktails organized by period of origin, plus an Italian-American menu where they are currently discounting steaks 50%. Okay, that is definitely not Strip-like.
  7. I will offer more detail on Partage when I get some downtime, but it’s really very good. And one of my appetizers last night will be in the running for dish of the year. Imagine a small crunchy sphere balanced on top of a torchon rabbit loin. Bite into the sphere and it’s stuffed with assertively flavored eel. Combine that flavor with the milder, perfectly cooked (not at all dry) rabbit and the results are incredible. Another dish that made me think of Wylie’s foie and anchovies although I very much doubt that Partage’s young French chef, who has been to NYC rarely, was influenced by it.
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    Richard Serra

    Or indeed giant. Yes, so many memories.
  9. Then Market must have been more busy in the past but it's certainly no ghost town now.
  10. The physio is working for the shoulder, which is good because I can’t help being aware that the cost of each session is a fancy restaurant dinner. Not like four star. If only it was beer and a shot.
  11. This is not a health issue, surely, it’s a running down of the restaurant reviews. I mean, there are understudies.
  12. I was chatting with someone about my SF trip last night and they asked me if all the stories about a closed and deserted downtown were true. I didn’t see that. Maybe there were closed storefronts but it was just like 2019 for me. Busy downtown on workdays, sad in the Tenderloin. And my phone says I walked 20 miles; it was just normal SF for me.
  13. Viva las really bumpy plane ride like several hours in a car with no suspension. Two drinks in, $50, but at least the second one didn’t come in a plastic glass. Looking down the barrel of something like a Bobby Flay burger (yes I could go off-Strip but I’m on past-midnight time and have an early start tomorrow). I guess I could pay $80 for a Gordon Ramsey beef Wellington. I could also eat “his” fish and chips in Times Square. I do have a good restaurant for tomorrow night, Partage.
  14. Nobody done Cafe Carmellini yet? Looks like my kind of old school, stiff, snobbish place.
  15. One amusing thing I forgot to note was that their current walk-on music is "You Sexy Thing" by Hot Chocolate, a hit some twenty years before Ana was born. :pop-music-stopped: We got another burst of it while Ana sought help with the reverse headstock.
  16. My first residence in New York, Sondheim lived on the same floor while having his Turtle Bay place renovated. So I didn’t really need his number. But my fun story, same place, after I moved in I had a lengthy voicemail (land line) from Tony Franciosa, thinking he was speaking to a producer or agent about an opportunity. And it was so much his voice. It never occurred to me to record it as we didn’t expose everything on line back then.
  17. That new Penn Station with its bars and dining options is a new Penn Station.
  18. Watching Meet the Press this morning, I composed a (non-political) clerihew. Justice Stephen Brier Decided to retire. He did not approach the decision cynically. He just felt he was getting a bit too wrinkly. (I considered a limerick beginning “There was a young lady called Ronna” but abandoned it.)
  19. Just finished “Paul Laurence Dunbar: Life and Times of a Caged Bird” by Gene Anthony Jarrett. From 2022, this is the first detailed biography and it’s remarkable to have a legendary figure brought into sharp focus. A bitter-sweet read; the unbelievable accomplishments before his death at 33 plus the TB, alcoholism and violence. For me, it also served as an introduction to his wife, Alice Dunbar Nelson, who had her own extraordinary life.
  20. This would be a great show to pair with “Unnamed Figures,” which states its theme much more directly. Oh it just closed, here’s the catalog. https://shop.folkartmuseum.org/unnamed-figures.html Here’s a dose of the Gugg rhetoric. Mind my Foucault.
  21. This one fills the rotunda. I had put off seeing it after witnessing a curious panel discussion in the Gugg theater some weeks ago. Connections had been made, not unreasonably, between the exhibit and Kayla Farrish’s brilliant dance piece “Put away the fire, dear.” The panel discussion featured the curator and two other women of obvious intelligence and sincerity talking like critical theory textbooks while Kayla wriggled on her stool like someone who would much rather be dancing. But of course it’s fine when you can just enjoy the art. Does all this talk about the erasure of the subject pussyfoot around the show’s real theme which is the erasure of the black subject (plus indigenous, Arabic…)? And isn’t part of the meaning of the show’s title that this is exclusively a show of artists of color (and mainly women)? Never mind, there’s good Faith Ringgold, Kerry James Marshall, some contemporary artists I didn’t know and a huge dose of Ming Smith.
  22. Well I have never been there, as far as I recall, despite many shows at Theater Row and visits to Chez Josephine across the street.
  23. As mentioned in other threads I did travel to SF to see Kayla’s astonishing “Put the fire away, dear.” And now I win the chance to see a solo performance by her next week in Chelsea. https://www.estrogenius.nyc/event-info/jasmine-hearn-kayla-farrish-maia-melene-durfe-carolina-marin-estrogenius-2024-expansion-at-the-cell-2024-03-29-19-00
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