May 2010
53 posts
Woody Allen On...
Like Oscar Wilde, I believe that ‘all art is useless.’ If you want political action, you need guys in the street with rifles.—Woody Allen at the 92nd Street Y last night, May 25, 2010.
Many more great quotes from the evening at Culture Sandwich.
EAT THIS FILM! A Summer Screening and Discussion...
Foodies and cinephiles alike take note: online film journal Reverse Shot and New York food magazine Edible Manhattan present “Eat This Film!,” a monthly summer screening series at 92YTribeca, running from June 9 through September 15, that looks at our relationship to food via the moving image.Read more on indieWIRE’s Reverseblog.
[92YTribeca Summer Film Series: Eat This Film]
more tickets! act now!
meltzer:
The First Kiss reading at the 92YTribeca on wednesday has been moved to a bigger space (still at the same location) and they are, last minute, releasing more tickets. It’s been sold out for weeks, so here’s your chance to come.
You can buy tickets at the door tomorrow night or you can buy via phone today at 212-601-1000 and online starting tomorrow morning.
You can buy tix online...
It’s our duty to spread the word about this Missed Connection…Bishop & Lowell at 92nd Street Y - w4m - 28 (Upper East Side)
You sat behind me in row F, one seat to my right, and got all the jokes Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell exchanged in their letters. I was wearing a jean jacket and had my hair pulled up. I liked your laugh. Did you know 92Y is some sort of notorious...
Bill Cunningham is the most important guy in the...
“Or at least an unidentified Parisian fashionista says so in a scene of Bill Cunningham New York, the new documentary chronicling the life of the legendary fashion photographer…” [Esquire]
We agree. And so we were very pleased to see Bill snapping away at our Annual Spring Gala.
If we had seen him pedal up on his bicycle, we would have froze with misplaced deference.
We Danced The Polka
Mrs. Schoenbaum recalled that she met her husband when she was 17 and went to a dance at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, accompanying a friend who wouldn’t let her stay home.
“I was into the books,” she said. “I said, ‘I don’t go to dances.’ ”
Four years later, she married the young man she met there.
“We danced the polka,” Mrs. Schoenbaum said.—Rhoda Schoenbaum remembers the first...
Horatio Alger: The Yiddish Version [GalleyCat]
What’s going on this week at 92YTribeca
“One of the richest archives of recorded readings dating over seven decades is that of the
Unterberg Poetry Center located in the 92nd Street Y in New York City…”ArtsBeat [The Buffalo News]
“Either that or Ortega just didn’t dig what Dobkin had to say about print’s business model.” —Fists With Your Toes
You can read more on what Dobkin had to say about print’s business model here.
See what’s going on this week at 92Y
Sharing Stories Between Father And Son
I’ve raised three good kids who turned out to be good citizens too. I’m proud of them — in ways that I suspect most parents are. I wish my first wife Mary were able to see what they’ve accomplished and to share in the joy and satisfaction of seeing them as parents now too.
I believe there’s power in sharing stories. My dad, who dropped out of school in the 8th grade...
Sean Hayes Enjoys Getting Drunk, YouTube, Blogs,...
Sean Hayes, Tony Award-nominated star of Promises, Promises and Emmy Award-winning actor playing Jack on Will & Grace, sat down with Playbill.com for a quick ‘Cue and A’.
That’s where we learned he prefers a Mac to PC, is obsessed with his friends’ blogs, YouTube and financial news, and his pre-show rituals include showing up drunk, yelling at the crew, demanding silence, and then insisting...
“Mr. Hitchens, Mr. Rushdie,
What one person in history would you most like to have a cup of coffee with?”
What would you ask Christopher Hitchens or Salman Rushdie?
92Y Podcast: From the Poetry Center Archive: John...
Today we are sharing a podcast featuring John Dos Passos at the 92nd Street Y in 1965, reading from the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy—The Big Money.
He talks of Paris and New York City in the twenties, rapportage, Isadora Duncan and more. Listen here.
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank...
Crooked Still CD Release Show
NPR’s First Listen: Crooked Still, ‘Some Strange Country’:“…an incredible blend of instruments, voices and lyrics. Mellow, rhythmic and captivating all at once, Some Strange Country once again demonstrates that the point of Crooked Still is, as singer Aoife O’Donovan says, “rediscovering this old music and making it new.”This Thursday, May 13,...
Mick Rock On Iggy Pop And David Bowie
After the screening, Mick Rock, legendary photographer of the album cover, took part in a Q&A. When asked by a fan what he thought made the cover of “Raw Power” so iconic, Mick said it was a combination of the photos quiet atmosphere and that Iggy looked like an iguana. When asked what it was Bowie saw in Iggy, Rock said Bowie was turned on by the nihilism of Iggy and how there was...
Sebastian Junger On War
Yesterday we told you about Sebastian Junger and his new book, War. Today, he made the rounds on WNYC and Good Morning America.
Junger will be here this Thursday, May 13, for further in-depth discussion of his book and time in Afghanistan, joined in by NBC’s Brian Williams. A booksigning will follow.
Are You 'Friends' With Us On Facebook?
We have a Facebook page you know. If you were friends with us there, you would have access to inside information, like our footwear preferences.
meltzer:
Spencer’s First Kiss story is excerpted at GQ.com. It’s so cute, right? He and Tavi will be reenacting theirs via video at the 92 St. Y Tribeca thing, which you should totally go to.
PS If any of you have ideas of where to have the after party that’s near 92nd St. Y Tribeca, please do let me know.
We suggest Ward III.
Interview with Memoirist and Poet Nick Flynn →
Flavorpill: Do you consider yourself a war poet? Nick Flynn: Sure, as much as Emily Dickinson was a war poet. Though she never saw a battle, the effects of the war, on those soldiers coming home from battle, seemed to have seeped into her work. FP: Do you think Generation X has connected with poetry in the same way that the Baby Boomers did? NF: From what I can tell, the life of poetry in America...
Break up the Banks!
newsweek:
Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, with some good thoughts on financial reform. A taste:
The To Big To Fail firms consider themselves essential to the world economy. Thanks to their scale, we’re told, they offer “synergies” and “efficiencies” and other benefits. The global economy can’t function without them, they say.
This is preposterous. For starters, the ...
Times Online on Iggy Pop and the Stooges at...
They started by performing their third album, Raw Power, released in 1973, albeit with a slight readjustment of the running order. There was mayhem on stage and off from the moment they kicked off with the title track, and Iggy was already stripped to well below the waist by the time they reached Search and Destroy. Diving headlong into the crowd in front of the stage, he somehow managed to...
The first-ever 92Y Poetry Center reading was given...
Major Marco, Are You Arabic?
Eugenie Rose Chaney: Are you arabic?
Bennett Marco: No.
Eugenie Rose Chaney: Let me put it another way: are you married? Just one of our favorite lines from the Manchurian Candidate, or any movie ever as a matter of fact.
The Manchurian Candidate is screening tonight at 92YTribeca.
Mike D’Angelo at the A.V. Club is in awe of the film: “All I know is that I first saw The...
John Irving: As Famous As Justin Bieber And A...
Not only is John Irving as famous as Justin Bieber, but he is also a dead ringer for Martin Sheen.
Upcoming readings at 92Y Poetry Center include “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners (May 10) and The Poets’ Theatre: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (May 24) where as always, tickets are just $10 for those 35 and under.
Is author John Irving as popular as pop star Justin Bieber?
