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paragraph class="noindent">It should come as no surprise that the food at M. Wells Dinette, the restaurant at MOMA P.S.1, in Long Island City, far exceeds expectations for museum fare; like the Modern, MOMA's Michelin-starred restaurant in Manhattan, M. Wells treats cuisine as high art . . . ... Quick Read |
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Art by or about émigrés tends to be about emigration, that horrible yank. In the mid-twentieth century, the leading flag-carriers were the Russians who fled their country's revolution. Richard Nelson's new play, “Nikolai and the Others,' about Balanchine, Stravinsky . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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In 2008, Karina Encarnacion, an eight year-old girl from Missouri, wrote to President-elect Barack Obama with some advice about what kind of dog he should get for his daughters. She also suggested that he enforce recycling and ban unnecessary wars. Obama wrote to thank her, and offered some . . . ... Quick Read |
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If you've seen Prince play in New York in the past ten years or so, you may have experienced a strange thrill. The night's biggest applause is sometimes reserved for someone else entirely: Sheila E, the daughter of the renowned percussionist and bandleader Pete Escovedo (he . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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paragraph class="noindent">A hundred tiny candles floating on a wall beckon you off the Bowery into this glittering cave of haute hipster fine dining just down the block from the New Museum. The candles are perched in little mounted wooden boxes along with quirky ephemera—an old copy . . . ... Quick Read |
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From the start, Marshall Crenshaw mixed tradition and a contemporary spirit in almost perfect proportions. After cutting his teeth in “Beatlemania' (he was John), he emerged as a solo artist with a pair of sublime albums that played like Buddy Holly transplanted to the world-weary, urbane America . . . ... Quick Read |
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8220;Mo said she was quirky but it was more than quirky.' “She' is Helen, a struggling single mother and casino worker living in London, and the guiding force in this stream-of-consciousness novel. On the way home from work, Helen spots a man who may . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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Ursula, the protagonist of this novel, lives her life over and over again in a variety of ways. Born in 1910, she enjoys a pastoral British childhood followed by adulthood in London during the Blitz or in postwar Berlin, each time dying in a new and clever way (at least . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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From New Yorker Magazine
In the course of two decades in the mid-nineteenth century, Paris was transformed from a medieval town into a modern city. Dense, tangled neighborhoods were replaced by boulevards, sidewalks, public parks, uniform apartment buildings, sewers, and luxury hotels. This astonishing makeover, which displaced three hundred and fifty thousand Parisians . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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This fascinating account of the life of Thomas Day, better known as a poet and anti-slavery campaigner, chronicles his misguided attempts to find the ideal woman. The most outrageous of these was a plan to train a young girl to be dutiful, hardy, and interested in literature, philosophy, and . . . (Subscription required.) ... Quick Read |
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