Sneakeater Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 (edited) It's better than calling you a Brit! Edited October 28, 2023 by Sneakeater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 14, 2023 Author Share Posted November 14, 2023 Rosner’s latest, another very detailed and persuasive review, this time of Nigerian food in a nightmarish club environment near the M&M building. Need to read the digital version of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 29, 2023 Author Share Posted November 29, 2023 Nuts. I just read the piece on the artist Betye Saar. I know I have seen her work recently. I remember Aunt Jemima, I remember the cotton dress. But where? Google is no help. I guess I can thumb back through my physical diary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 There was a Saar show at MoMA fairly recently. Perhaps there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 Belatedly, if that was the case you are probably right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 This is maybe a regular thing now? Hannah gets a couple of pages to talk about a slightly generalized restaurant topic while Helen gets a drastically truncated (print edition) Tables for Two. Curious decision. Maybe they’ll switch around sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 I see Tables For Two has become The Food Scene, which perhaps gives Rosner more scope. The latest piece on diners contains a discussion about whether, when a diner’s food reaches a certain level, it is a diner no more; the sort of debate that could have run for months on Mouthfuls when we were young and carefree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Rosner has missed that, in keeping with the current trend, Old John's has reverted to calling itself a Luncheonette. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyardchef Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 minute ago, Sneakeater said: Rosner has missed that, in keeping with the current trend, Old John's has reverted to calling itself a Luncheonette. Are you going to be ok living with this knowledge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Life is hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 It’s Old John’s Diner on their own Instagram feed, it’s Old John’s on their website with no suffix I can find. It comes up as Luncheonette if you run a Google search, but that’s Google. Not clear that the business itself changed the name back (and why bother?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I could swear I saw "Luncheonette" on their website a couple of weeks ago? Why bother? Cuz luncheonettes are all the rage this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 Mm, well they need to try harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 I was pleased to see the piece on Trouser Press and Ira Robbins. Okay, so let's gripe about it: Quote Trouser Press, as it came to be called, soon became a scrappy yet integral vehicle for the incursion on these shores of Brit genres, like prog and New Wave... I can imagine that the term "prog" was more a U.K. term than a U.S. term (correct me if I'm wrong), but the assertion that these were British genres is jaw-dropping. Quote ...shelves holding more than thirty thousand records, almost a third of them vinyl LPs. The other two thirds, I assume, are vinyl 45s or perhaps shellac 78s. Either that, or someone thinks we should refer to CDs as "records." But what a tough fix, what is a sub-editor supposed to do? How about replace "records" with "albums"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 ISN'T Prog a British genre? Who were the major formative American Prog bands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 I think Wiki is right for once: Quote [Progressive rock] primarily developed in the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany through the late 1960s and early 1970s. You certainly can't leave out the Germans. (Also the Dutch: Focus.) Wiki mentions The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Mothers of Invention, Spirit, Rush, Todd Rundgren. I might list Jefferson Airplane ahead of the Dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 The Soft Machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 33 minutes ago, Wilfrid said: I think Wiki is right for once: You certainly can't leave out the Germans. (Also the Dutch: Focus.) Wiki mentions The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Mothers of Invention, Spirit, Rush, Todd Rundgren. I might list Jefferson Airplane ahead of the Dead. I see you on the Germans and the Dutch, but the American acts Wiki mentions either came after the British ones (or, as in the case of Todd Rundgren, went Prog in the wake of the British acts) (he was Pop before that) or aren't Prog (I don't see the Doors, the Dead, or the Airplane as Prog at all -- they were Psychedelic, which was a whole different thing -- and even the Mothers seem to me to be something else). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) You see, you ( @Wilfrid ) think of Psychedelic as having developed into Prog, cuz that's what happened in Britain. In America, though, it didn't. In America, Psychedelic oddly developed into Country/Roots. Or heavy metal. Edited January 17 by Sneakeater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 33 minutes ago, hollywood said: The Soft Machine. Were British. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyardchef Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 The Lamb Lies Down on Shakedown Street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 I am not citing WikiP as definitive, but clearly there are divergent opinions on this: Quote ...the style was an emergence of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music Emphasis added, and the statement isn't restricted to the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that was written by a person who wasn't alive in 1970. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 I mean, Workingman's Dead is the work of a Prog band? Or "Bertha"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 Amanda thinks Of Monsters and Men sounds like the name of a gastropub. She also seems to think Noel Kahan is well served by a comparison between his lyrics and Wallace Stevens' poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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