hollywood Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I know you're kidding, but Brodeur is a public figure too. What are his lawyers thinking? not Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 That Billy Joel piece really is good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Told ya. Up there with Gay Talese on Frank Sinatra. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Such a beautiful, moving poem by Ashbery in the new one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Recommended, John Lanchester's "Shut Up and Eat" in the November 3 (food) issue. On the one hand, Lanchester seems to be saying that it was great to be a "foodie" before everyone joined in and spoiled it; on the other, there are some fine insights along the way: Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities—which is a positive development, because, from an environmental point of view, density is good. At the same time, that world population, according to the United Nations, is heading for a total just below eleven billion by the century’s end. We can manage this, probably, but we can’t do so without industrial agriculture. This doesn’t negate the individual virtue of our consumer choices, but it does mean they take us only so far toward making a better world. If shopping and cooking really are the most consequential, most political acts in my life, perhaps what that means is that our sense of the political has shrunk too far—shrunk so much that it fits into our recycled-hemp shopping bags. If these tiny acts of consumer choice are the most meaningful actions in our lives, perhaps we aren’t thinking and acting on a sufficiently big scale. Imagine that you die and go to Heaven and stand in front of a jury made up of Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Your task would be to compose yourself, look them in the eye, and say, “I was all about fresh, local, and seasonal.” Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Behemoth Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 that's great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 There's a little bit of "the band's no good now that everybody likes them" in there. But I thought his model railroad analogy was pretty sound. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cstuart Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I always thought poker was a good analogy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mongo_jones Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 really, people? i thought it was ridiculous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Talking of too much, it's as if the New Yorker food issue overflowed into neighboring weeks. The piece about Chinese restaurant workers a week or two earlier; and now I'm reading a profile of an editor of a farming magazine in the subsequent issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 p63 not "Elephant and Castle," "THE Elephant and Castle"--like THE Bowery. Good grief. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I think it's Bowery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 In addresses, it's just "Bowery", as in "The restaurant is at 623 Bowery". But often in spoken speech, it's The Bowery. And never, EVER Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I heard a subway conductor announce "Next stop, Bowery Street," just the other day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I've never not referred to it as "The Bowery". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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