January 2010
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“Di Palo which is in Little Italy…they import the best Parmigiano [Reggiano] in the world there.” —French Culinary Institute founder and CEO Dorothy Hamilton.
Related: Di Palo Selects Parmigiano Reggiano
Renowned foodies Tom Colicchio, Dan Barber, Jacques Torres and Andre Soltner and Dorothy Hamilton will be at 92Y on Feb 3 for Doing What You Love, talking about their...
Photos from the opening reception for Adam Golfer—kin* exhibit at 92Y. The show runs until Mar 11 and features a photograph of Snoop Dog.
Mr. Chocolate, Jacques Torres, Stashes Cocoa Nibs in Pockets, Rides a Scooter to Sushi
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Yesterday was a big day on l’internet. Steve Jobs unveiled a new, bigger, iPhone, and “Presidente Barack Obama” gave his State of the Union Address which everyone on Twitter breathlessly followed, including New York Times reporter Sewell Chan, settling into his new role as Washington correspondent.
Here at the 92nd Street Y, Andy Borowitz, Jeffrey Toobin, Calvin Trillin, Janeane...
Wall Street Journal blog Speakeasy on Patti Smith and Sam Sheppard at the 92nd Street Y last week:“I thought this could make a good story,” Sam Shepard said last night at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, going on to outline a premise whereby two people are together for a year, go their separate ways for the next four decades, marry other lovers and start families, have separate careers, become a...
Over at one of our favorite bookstores last Saturday, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Brad Gooch and Louise Gluck were nominated as finalists for National Book Critic Circle Awards – and both are appearing at the 92Y Poetry Center in April. The full list of finalists can be seen here, congratulations to all.
On Apr 8, former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück and Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail will read...
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo Has a Message For Obama
Guest post by Christa Avampato
We hold a certain fondness in our hearts for the improbable journey and for the travelers who take those journeys. Last night at the 92nd Street Y, Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo gave us something to think about as he described his own improbable journey from his childhood immigrant household in...
The New York Times attended a talk by renowned designers William W. Stubbs and Bunny Williams as part of a lecture series at the Decoration & Design Building last week:If you do international work, banking instructions, that’s the key. So I whipped out my banking instructions, and when I got back to Houston, $100,000 had been transferred into my account.”
Appreciative murmurs from the crowd....
What are your dinner plans this Friday? Oh, you’re not sure? Well…you might consider Tu B’Shevat Shabbat Dinner at 92YTribeca with leaders of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to celebrate Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees. With a menu carefully designed by Executive Chef Russell Moss and Food and Beverage Director Alexander (Sasha) Chack, we’ll partake in a special fruit seder, a...
There is currently a photograph of Snoop Dog holding roses in our Art Gallery.
Go Do NYC reviews The Big Apple in Six Words at 92Y:The group had a really great dynamic. The show included video and song as well as an audience participation portion at the end when anyone in the audience could get up to read his or her memoir. When the final audience member stood up and said “Born a boy, raised as a girl” and the room was silent. We all wanted to hear the rest of that...
The Journalism School at Columbia University on Jarod Lanier’s talk at 92Y last week:Lanier later added, “The dynamics of advertising stupefies everyone.” When Lanier speaks about advertising, he refers to the compulsion people now have to add and share as much information as possible online. This compulsion, he said, is fostered by Web 2.0, a term that refers to any web application that allows...
What is the played called in French?
“Les Monologues du Vagin.” In Italian, it’s “I Monologhi della Vagina.”
The New York Times interviews Eve Ensler:
Where are you from?
I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn’t work for me as a place at all.
Are you married?
No. I’m a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Île...
Continuing our exploration of different Jewish communities through food, here’s a French recipe for Cream of Carrot Soup from the Kosher Gourmet Book by the 92nd Street Y Kosher Cooking School. For more information on diverse Jewish communities please visit the Resource Center for Jewish Diversity at 92Y.
Cream of Carrot Soup
Potage Lorraine
Makes 4 to 6 servings
Celery, carrots, and...
“The introduction of 92Y Tribeca in 2008, proved to be the perfect addition to...”
– via: Great Places
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A selection of quotes from Lou Dobbs’ recent interview in Esquire:Never expect a thank-you, and never do things for a thank-you. That is very liberating.
If you’re going to stand in front, or sit in front, of a camera and microphone, you had better be saying what you mean.
Well, hell, what has either party done but try to game the American people?
Every trade agreement that has...
“In Europe, everybody in the audience has the new record before they come to the show. Why? Because that’s the script of the stage production they’re about to see and participate in. They come, and they all sing every word of every song. They don’t move, they don’t go to the bathroom, they don’t order hot dogs.” —Steven Van Zandt in Esquire
On Feb 11, join Steven Van Zandt
when he sits...
Barron’s on Joseph Stiglitz and Matthew Bishop at 92Y last night:Stiglitz is remarkably chipper for a man who’s often been in the halls of power but seems to have seen most of his prescriptions ignored.
Last night, he reiterated his familiar themes: The $800 billion stimulus was too small, we’re going to need a second one; George W. Bush’s administration deserves 110% of the credit for the...
“ps. Sorry for accidentally shoulder-checking you at the 92YTribeca at your BQE showing last fall. I really had to go to the bathroom and you were kind of loitering in the doorway. I didn’t realize it was you until too late, d’oh!”
Hey Sufjan - w4m - 23 Date: 2010-01-19, 1:56AM EST
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Image via WikipediaDuring the silent film era, live music enhanced the moving picture and brought communities together through a visceral, interactive audio-visual experience. Today, the film experience has been reduced to the tiny screens of our laptops and iPods, oftentimes experienced alone. Cinema 16 offers a revival of community, recreating the experience of the silent film era. Curator and...
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“The basic idea of this contract,” [Jaron Lanier] writes, “is that...”
– Google Subway Wrap in NYC via FlickrAlex Pastrenack at the Huffington Post on China, Google, and content: “There’s an interesting dynamic between Google and China,” Jaron Lanier, the Internet philosopher and author of the new book You Are Not a Gadget, said last night after a talk...
Joyce Carol Oates: Content to Create a World of...
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This Week’s Chosen Recipe from the International Jewish Cookbook: Iraqi-style Rice
Continuing our exploration of different Jewish communities through food, here’s an Iraqi-Syrian recipe for Iraqi-style rice from the Kosher Gourmet Book by the 92nd Street Y Kosher Cooking School. For more information on diverse Jewish communities please visit the Resource Center for Jewish Diversity at 92Y.
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Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics Joseph Stiglitz’, argues in his new book Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, that America has exported destructive financial policies and behavior to the rest of the world, resulting in a skewed balance of power between markets and governments. He writes in this months’ Mother Jones: This crisis has exposed...
Win tickets to the Brian Bonz and The Dot Hongs, Rockstar Society, Kevin Johnston show on Jan 22 at 92YTribeca: Visit the Brian Bonz Blog for more info.
Recap: Nora Ephron and Gail Collins at the 92nd...
michellehaimoff:
It’s difficult to summarize Nora Ephron and Gail Collin’s talk at the 92nd Street Y last night. Entitled “Women Come of Age,” the event aimed to cover “the cataclysmic changes that have overhauled American women’s lives during the past five decades.” But the conversation jumped from feminism (“The number of things where you just go, ‘Oh my god, that was in my adult life’”), to...