Culinary Celebration. You’re doing it right! Not only is the Magnolia Bakery expanding into midtown late September (reason to celebrate enough as for as I am concerned), but beer bashes abound with New York Craft Beer Week is fast approaching (September 12th-21st) and the 3rd annual NY Brewfest September 12th at South Street Seaport. ! […]
Entries Tagged as 'news and headlines'
News Peruse: The Good, Bad and Fab
August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: life gotham-style · news and headlines
NYC Summer Fun: Summer Stories
June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
it’s been a busy time in Gotham but I admit that the Summer stories grabbing a goodly portion of the headlines - waterfalls, budgets, and baseball - are not what have caught my attention.
Oh I admit that the waterfalls as an idea intrigued when they were first proposed. I looked forward to them - and […]
Tags: free · NYC Summer Fun · life gotham-style · gotham grub · entertainments and events · news and headlines · walks
A Bird? A Plane? No, a Crane. Again
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
what the hell is going on? Another crane collapse? This one was on East 91st Street off 1st Avenue. The last one - In March - was East 51st Street between 1st and 2nd. After that one, city building inspectors said they examined over 200 mobile cranes across the city and ended up shutting down […]
Tags: life gotham-style · news and headlines
Boris and Bloomberg: Buddy Movie in the Making
May 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
And as I predicted, the New York/London bond takes center stage with the Telegraph reporting: “Boris Johnson to learn from Michael Bloomberg.”
Really? I’d love to be a fly on that wall.
Boris: “So, Mr. Mayor - ha! Might be referring to myself, what? Rather like the sound of it - ‘Mr. Mayor.’ I mean, still getting […]
Tags: news and headlines · politics and government
Boris Johnson - New York’s UK Son
May 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Bear with me. This is Gotham related, honest.
You see Boris Johnson has just won the mayoral election in London.
“And?” I hear you ask.
Well, It might surprise many to know that Boris was born here in Gotham. Yes, it is, indeed, so. And Boris, New York born if not raised, reportedly admires many of mini-Mayor’s policies. […]
Tags: news and headlines · politics and government
Back in the Gotham Saddle
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Forgive the extended absence, all. The post cruise fogginess (that no one warned me about, by the by) took a while to clear and then, just as things began to clear, I was struck down (and laid prone) by an incredibly bout of sciatica. I will not regale with with the details and descriptions of […]
Tags: news and headlines · entertainments and events · sight seeing · transit and transport · museums
Gathering Gotham Threads
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Congestion Pricing - I’m for it. The current plan being kicked around. Well, I don’t know that it’s exactly what I would have proposed and I’m not sure how all the logistics will play out but it is a move in the right direction and deserves to be tried.
Governor Patterson - listen, Guv. You seem […]
Tags: life gotham-style · historical gotham · news and headlines
Numero Uno!
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
The winner! I am Uno. Hear me roar. Or - rather, hear me bay. You didn’t seriously think anyone was gonna be swayed by bookended poodles in fancy haircuts, did you? That jump - the one that you thought sealed my fate? That jump was not a mistake. It was strategy.
And now, I wish to play […]
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But is it Art?
February 7th, 2008 · No Comments
well, hello there.
Have you seen the latest Equinox ad? Apparently folks up in Boston don’t care for it very much. But honestly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Sure, most nuns don’t wear that much make up and the lighting is lousy. One wants lots of natural light for something like that. […]
Tags: news and headlines
YES! GIANTS WIN!
February 4th, 2008 · No Comments
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
GIANTS WIN!
Tags: life gotham-style · news and headlines
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments
In the immortal and wise words of Neil Sedaka, “breaking up is hard to do” - and in some cases, it’s darned near impossible. Yes it’s that time again –
Time to Talk NYC Secession!
“What’s that?” I hear you cry! You must have heard me wrong? Here - let me repeat - Secession Plan Is Floated […]
Tags: news and headlines · politics and government
News Peruse - Subways, Serendipity and Skating
December 7th, 2007 · No Comments
I am happy to announce that finally gotten over my shock over the new subway reorganization plan (no, I never decided which bit shocked me more). So you can imagine how intrigued I was to see the City Room blog pose the question How Would You Run These Subway Lines?
I’ve decided to give it some […]
Tags: gotham grub · news and headlines · entertainments and events · transit and transport
Subways: Line By Line
December 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I honestly don’t know what to be more shocked about - the fact that the MTA has decided to assign each subway line a manager of it’s own or the fact that this wasn’t already standard operating procedure.
Tags: news and headlines · transit and transport
waiting (im)patiently
November 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
*tap* *tap* *tap*
The sounds you have just heard are the sounds of someone with theater tickets to see Stoppard’s Rock N Roll on Nov 27th. Will it happen? Won’t it happen? Who knows?
The two sides have broken off talks again - neither side will budge - and all the shows with union contracts have officially […]
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New York News Peruse
November 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Ah, deadline of the week has been met and now I can met and so I rest easier in my mind as I peruse the news. And I see that mini-mayor must have gotten a hold of the caffeinated stuff again. During speech, Mayor Bloomberg blasts presidential candidates
“Asked later if he was talking about anyone in particular, he made […]
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