September 2010
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Gravity, Buildings, Being a New Yorker →
rebeccalando:
At the time, I thought she was the real New Yorker. We were all trying to become New Yorkers, but it seemed that she, out of all of us, had succeeded. Like New York, she had no qualms about paving over history, resettling and reshaping things as her own. She lived in that guy’s furniture for the full two years of her half-price lease. I never set foot in her apartment again. I...
MSF Postcards Series: Migrants write home from... →
doctorswithoutborders:
Two new stories of people who left their home countries in search of safety, peace, and decent living conditions from our “Postcards from Migrants in Malta and Morocco” series.
WatchFamily Nouveau, new documentary featuring Of Montreal
It’s a bizarre celebration when Of Montreal tours through eleven European cities in twelve nights at the dawn of Obama’s presidency. Following the band for 11 days, director Spenser Simrill Jr. offers glimpses of Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris and most significantly, the landscape of the human body, as the film captures Of...
“This kind of rigor about the thesis (absolutely no easy rides here) has a lot to do with the high publication rate. But there are certainly other factors which contribute: students do internships at the New Yorker, Publishers’ Weekly, Paris Review, and at major publishing houses. They attend multiple readings by famous writers every week (not by any means all at Columbia, but at the...
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New York City’s cupcake economy comes to 92Y this Friday.
In the Life of ‘The Wire’ by Lorrie Moore | The... →
rubenfeld:
Your read of the weekend.
Agreed. And we couldn’t be more excited for the reading with Lorrie Moore and Jonathan Franzen at 92Y in November.
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20 Ways Social Media Can Change the World That I...
bajillionhits:
This week everyone’s been abuzz/ablog/aTwitter about the Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit, in which leading Thought Leaders (I couldn’t make it, was too busy with ABH.biz launch stuff) did Livetweetstreaming panels and discussed ways in which social media can also be used for “helping the world” outside of just being the most powerful tool for selling, promoting and...
NPR: The Birth Of A Monarch Butterfly - And NPR's... →
npr:
It seems appropriate to kick of NPR’s little experiment on Tumblr with this photo from a commentary we posted yesterday on NPR.org. Artist Julie Zickenfoose shares her story about the beauty of watching monarch butterflies emerging from their chrysalis at her wildlife sanctuary in Ohio….
…So welcome to NPR’s Tumblr. Welcome to the fold.
Quotes of the Day from UN Week Digital Media Lounge
“MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] have to be approached in a holistic, interconnected way. It should not be one goal over another.” -Mariame Dem, head of West Africa region, WaterAid
“We have to deal with self stigma, the feeling of “why me?” then we can deal with the social stigma that people with AIDS and TB face.” -Lucy Chesire, TB...
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Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer at the 92nd...
thatgirlallison:
On Sunday night at 7:30pm, Jordan Roth engaged in a discussion with director Michael Mayer and Green Day front man (and rock god) Billie Joe Armstrong at the Upper East Side’s 92nd Street Y. Having gone to several of the talk backs this week, I was expecting the be bored but deep down I was hoping for the best. Luckily, the latter was the case and the hour and a half...
Do you enjoy bombing people?
“Do you enjoy bombing people? I don’t. I like asking that. You should take that poll. Ask people, do you enjoy bombing people? Does anyone here enjoy dropping bombs on people? It’s crazy! And we have the largest military in the world. It’s crazy. It’s crazy.” —Ted Turner at 92Y/Mashable Social Good Summit.
Ted Turner was on fire tonight. Review most of...
“War is obsolete. You end up bombing your customers.”
– Ted Turner
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Watch Ed Norton's Talk Live Right Now →
Update: Well that’s over but Pete Cashmore interviewing Ted Turner is next.
The 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s 72nd season...
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oldjewstellingjokes:
Alan Dershowitz, “New Wife”
Alan Dershowitz has been called “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world” and one of the nation’s “most distinguished defenders of individual rights.” He was defense counsel in some of the biggest celebrity trials of the 20th century. He is presently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Alan was born in...
