*Everyday Chatter
Please attend the Community Meeting to discuss nightlife noise from the LES Thompson Hotel: May 27, 6:30 p.m., in the Raphael Hernandez Community Room, 189 Allen (bet Houston & Stanton):
Inquiring minds want to know, what goes on inside the Free Willie Nelson? [EVG]
Enjoy Christmas on the Bowery--back in the bad old days. [AP]
"If New York City were to slide back into the crumbling anarchy of the 1970s, as some fear, would that be so bad?" ..."Artists’ lofts--boxcars of light, raw space, and drafty windows—were actually occupied and used by artists and not titled Eurotrash, trustafarians, investment bankers, hedge-fund hotshots, and similar bonus babies who would model their cheekbones and cutlery collection on Patrick Bateman’s in American Psycho." [VF] ...but people in Kansas disagree.
Are people bombing Starbucks because their logo looks like Queen Esther? [RS]
The "herring people" hover outside Clinton Street Bakery. [WL]
The demolitions continue in Chinatown. [BB]
From a tipster: "This formerly blocked painted billboard has now been exposed at the corner of Broadway & 76th":
Shepard Fairey designs Saks 5th Ave's Communist-style ad campaign. [NYT] via [ADB]
Addicted to your screens? "increase in screen use has rewired our brains and led to a decrease in our empathy and our ability to read facial language." [ABD]
As more "green" condos and towers blossom, remember: "there is nothing green about construction." [ABD]
One more from Micah White: "The Kindle is not a book. It is instead a machine mimicking the external traits of a book while destroying the essence of the book: the trace of the author, the community of readers and the call to deep, meditative reflection." [ABD]
Inquiring minds want to know, what goes on inside the Free Willie Nelson? [EVG]
Enjoy Christmas on the Bowery--back in the bad old days. [AP]
"If New York City were to slide back into the crumbling anarchy of the 1970s, as some fear, would that be so bad?" ..."Artists’ lofts--boxcars of light, raw space, and drafty windows—were actually occupied and used by artists and not titled Eurotrash, trustafarians, investment bankers, hedge-fund hotshots, and similar bonus babies who would model their cheekbones and cutlery collection on Patrick Bateman’s in American Psycho." [VF] ...but people in Kansas disagree.
Are people bombing Starbucks because their logo looks like Queen Esther? [RS]
The "herring people" hover outside Clinton Street Bakery. [WL]
The demolitions continue in Chinatown. [BB]
From a tipster: "This formerly blocked painted billboard has now been exposed at the corner of Broadway & 76th":
Shepard Fairey designs Saks 5th Ave's Communist-style ad campaign. [NYT] via [ADB]
Addicted to your screens? "increase in screen use has rewired our brains and led to a decrease in our empathy and our ability to read facial language." [ABD]
As more "green" condos and towers blossom, remember: "there is nothing green about construction." [ABD]
One more from Micah White: "The Kindle is not a book. It is instead a machine mimicking the external traits of a book while destroying the essence of the book: the trace of the author, the community of readers and the call to deep, meditative reflection." [ABD]
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