June 2010
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You Destroyed Everything by Meredith Turits
Our parents were young, loaded, and deep into their careers in international finance, as well as their self-absorbed storybook romance. My father, American with a mother from France, and my mother, French Canadian, had met in business school in Montreal, married quickly, and planted their shallow roots. When they were barely thirty, Anaïs and I happened accidentally, but our births didn’t stop...
Tumblr Tuesday
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Nathan Lane is not a sad clown! →
Capital New York covered last night’s talk with Nathan Lane at 92Y:So, sometimes standards get in the way of undeniable joy. And in fact some writers have suggested that Lane is suffering from depression, and speculated that it has something to do with the turn his career is taking. One entry by Alex Witchel in the Times Magazine he called “the sad clown article to end all sad clown...
W.H. Auden’s affiliation with the 92nd Street Y...
Lisa Yuskavage: The Journey of an Art Star →
I was just finishing up a flamenco class at the 92nd Street Y surrounded by women jabbering in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Farsi, Italian—proving the international allure of accessing not only your inner pole dancer but your inner flamenco dancer—when I saw people had already begun lining up for the presentation by artist Lisa Yuskavage, she of the va-va-voom paintings. As I hurried to...
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Roz Singer's One-Of-A-Kind Beaded Necklaces
“Beading? I’d never done it before I moved to Manhattan in 2001,” Roz Singer told The Transition Network.
As you can see above, she soon learned and started making beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces at the 92nd Street Y Jewelry Center.
Priority registration begins on July 12 for a variety of Beading classes at 92Y; you check out the full line-up here. View all classes...
Picture of Heath: Celebrating Living Legend Jimmy...
“Improvisation is democracy at its best. Everybody has a right to speak their mind musically.”
That was Jimmy Heath on WNYC’s Soundcheck this past Tuesday, interviewed by Jeff Spurgeon. At the end of the interview, Spurgeon asked him about legacy: “What’s your?” he inquired.
“I just want to be remembered as a composer and some of my compositions...
This Saturday at 92Y: The Vintage Summer Ball. All are welcome; no experience necessary.
92YTribeca →
manofmanyways:
So I just found out about this place because Jukebox The Ghost is playing there July 13. When I went to the venue site, I discovered something awesome. They even have a film series called “Obsessed in the 90s”!!! July 16 there is a screening of “Fear” (with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Whalberg). YUP! Amazing! A bunch of other cool things going on there too. I must explore. Anyone...
4 Women, 4 Money Points You Need to Know →
WatchIn memoriam of Bros Icing Bros
Painting On The High Line Park →
Internet Is People: July 14th: Women in...
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mknell:
Internet Is People: July 14th: Women in entrepreneurship
Join our first Internet Is People panel on July 14th at the 92Y Tribeca! Tickets on sale now! Also, please feel free to follow us on Tumblr, Twitter or Facebook for more updates!
Hi everyone!
It’s time we shared a little secret that we are to announce - our first panel event for Wednesday night, July 14th!
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Huffington Post Introduces HuffPost Arts
The Arts Section will cover the full range of arts and culture — from painting to music to theater. By engaging artists, critics and arts writers with all the other Huffington Post conversations — politics, media, style and more — I hope to ignite even more sparks among readers and hopefully set the place on fire. I look forward to seeing you here on the arts page, hearing your...
Our Town UES Interviews Ron Suhanosky of Sfoglia
Q: Any pet peeves that diners do?
A: Last night, actually, I had this incident that was kind of funny. I took a walk-in party of two. Seemed like a young hip couple. She was looking at the menu and she looked like she was perplexed about what to order and before I could even get into any detail about the menu she asked me if I had chicken piccata or veal milanese. And I was so close to letting...
Three Ways that Women Hurt Other Women and Three...
At 92Y Tribeca the other day, I heard Susan Shapiro Barash, author of Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry, talk about the ways in which women hold each other down instead of raising each other up. Following are three:Read more on Feministing.com
Watch“I’m gonna read some new poems, so you can mark the decline.” This is how Derek Walcott—poet, playwright, Nobel Laureate—introduced his reading here at the Poetry Center in September of 2007. In April, those new poems were published as White Egrets, Mr. Walcott’s fourteenth collection. To mark the occasion, we offer a recording of his reading from the then-unpublished manuscript.
Reviewing the...
tumblklaat asked: o awesome! in addition to newsweek now 92nd st Y has a tumblr. every senior citizen in upper manhattan will want to get one now yay
[Bill Gates Jr.] was asked what he thought about Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule: if you do something for 10,000 hours you’ll be an expert. His response was quite nuanced.
He suggested that no one sets out to do something for 10,000 hours to become an expert. Rather, lots of people set out to do something and after 50 hours, 90% give up. After another 50 hours, another 90% give up, et...
Listening to BBC Radio One here in the office. We like to get pumped up for the weekend and all night dance sessions in the cl cl cl cl cl clubbbbsssss. (Sound of a ship horn and broken glass).
Spread the word!
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theeampersand:
The Ampersand™: America’s Premier Arts Journal™ is always taking new submissions. Right now we only have 11 Tumblr followers, which makes me kind of sad. Encourage your friends to follow. Call up your mom and tell her to dig that old musty composition book out of the attic. Dig out your 8th grade art projects. Let’s make The Ampersand™ all it can be!
It was...
Remember when it was Summer?
WatchHere’s full video of the rare meeting of two modern-day masters of the grand themes—”time, love, the coming around of inexorable events… the acceleration and dislocation of modern life”—Shirley Hazzard and Richard Ford at the PEN World Voices Festival at the 92nd Street Y in April. What Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard once said about her own subject matter can also be...
WatchHere’s the full Bill Gates talk with his father in case you missed it last week. Daily Finance has a belated recap of it today.
David Markson, 1927-2010
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David Markson died on June 4, 2010, at the age of 82. He was one of my few living literary heroes. He made up his own rules and broke those, too. His best works were assembled from shards of cognition, fractured insight, history as apocrypha. He muddled fact and unfact. The past had happened and been invented. The world was a paradox, existence a contradiction in...
OH In The Office:
“Hey, you look great. Did you just get back from an audition with the Backstreet Boys?”
