Wilfrid Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 The Wapping, please. :kidding: 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 But "I'm headed to Bowery"? Or, as Alejandro says, "in the bowery..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daisy Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Ha. And as any New Yorker knows it's on, not in. I have sort of given up on correcting friends from Great Britain and Ireland, people who have lived here for years, who persist in saying 'IN the lower east side'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Behemoth Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Being Alejandro Escovedo is even cooler than being from New York, though, so who cares. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Being Alejandro Escovedo is even cooler than being from New York, though, so who cares. True that! Though he did live here for a while - in the freakin' Chelsea Hotel (where else?)! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 The story about little kids learning to ride rodeo bulls is jaw dropping (12/8 issue). Is the US really all one country? Stunning photos too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Hmmm? http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/11/malcolm-gladwell-accused-of-plagiarism.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bloviatrix Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 The story about little kids learning to ride rodeo bulls is jaw dropping (12/8 issue). Is the US really all one country? Stunning photos too. Just finished reading this article yesterday. The photos were fabulous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lippy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Is the US really all one country? Nope https://www.google.com/search?q=Regions+in+U.S.&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&imgil=1D8p5HQecNz4GM%253A%253B4L6ff1r2V-tz3M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fteach.fcps.net%25252Ftrt14%25252FUS%2525252520Regions%25252Fusregions.htm&source=iu&pf=m&fir=1D8p5HQecNz4GM%253A%252C4L6ff1r2V-tz3M%252C_&usg=__XXKDr3m1HYQ3AsUHfLyQE_8Phy4%3D&biw=1207&bih=544&ved=0CCkQyjc&ei=oHiKVNX-IM61sQS9vIJA#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=1D8p5HQecNz4GM%253A%3B4L6ff1r2V-tz3M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fteach.fcps.net%252Ftrt14%252FUS%252520Regions%252Fregions_copy.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fteach.fcps.net%252Ftrt14%252FUS%252520Regions%252Fusregions.htm%3B398%3B285 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 David Denby to stop reviewing films. http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/new-yorker-film-critic-david-denby-steps-down.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Is the 1/5 cover really lovely and heart-warming, or am I just sentimental for when my hulking 14 year old soccer full back (nearly as tall as me, people) was a little sprite bouncing around dance classes at Martha Graham and the Third St Music Settlement? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ngatti Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 When I met her at Zum Schneider, mine were 16 and and 14. Now I have a not quite 2yo grandaughter and two, 1 month old grandsons. The 26yo boy is independent and on his own. (sigh) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Suzanne F Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Sempé covers are almost always lovely and heartwarming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Grand children. Ooh er... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cstuart Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I just finished reading a piece on Meyer Sound's Constellation system, which "employs microphones, a digital-audio platform, and loudspeakers to sample the noise of a room, modify it, and send it back out in altered form." The article starts at Oliveto restaurant which recently installed the system during a remodel: " on this night, though, I found myself able to tune out the noise and hear only what I wanted to hear. When someone at a nearby table began guffawing at his own jokes, I could still follow the remarks of the calm-voiced man sitting next to me. " And then heads over the bridge to Soundbox which is put on the by SF Symphony and uses Contellation: "Joshua Gersen, who conducted that night, began the show with a demonstration of the Meyer setup. He clapped his hands; the sound resonated handsomely. Then he signalled for the power to be turned off. Suddenly, the clap was clipped and lifeless. The crowd gasped and applauded. " The author likes the system for the most part but does has some reservations. I couldn't help but think of mitchells' poor soul when the author mentions Meyer systems becoming fixtures in the classical world: Even the storied Musikverein, in Vienna, one of the three or four finest concert halls ever built, makes occasional use of Meyer components: the Musikverein’s richly reverberant acoustic tends to wash out speech, and when performances require narration, as in, say, Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” speakers bring greater clarity. In the plaza outside the New World Center, in Miami, where the New World Symphony is based, a Constellation array supplies the fullest, most lifelike outdoor sound I have encountered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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