June 2011
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Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times on the “insultingly vacuous and frankly bizarre prose” of content farms.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou
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Larry David Shouts And Murmurs
Larry David does Shouts & Murmurs in The New Yorker: On the par-3, 175-yard fourteenth hole at Riviera, I hit my tee shot a mere ninety yards and a physics-defying thirty degrees to the right—almost sideways. It’s a miracle I got my right leg out of the way, or I could have shattered it with the club. As I walked to the ball, I remarked to my friend that after seventeen years of playing this...
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Vogue Got Me Through
Re-reading “Scene 7” by Jill Goldsmith in Podium: Issue 6Gail
Where are you from?
Brandy
Cranston, Rhode Island.
Gail
Did you like it there?
Brandy
No.
Gail
Really. Why?
Brandy
It’s a crappy little state. It’s boring. My family was horrible. My parents said I was crazy and pumped me full of drugs. I wasn’t allowed to drive or use the toaster. Vogue got me through....
“In 2009, moments after Senator James S. Alesi, a Republican, voted against gay...”
– The New York Times, “How New York’s Same-Sex Marriage Deal Nearly Collapsed” (via inothernews)
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Almost Live . . .
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Tune in all day on June 21, 2011, starting shortly after 5am, for pictures, audio and video of the events of Make Music New York, 2011, in almost real time!!!!!!!
Are you familiar with the Make Music New York festival happening tomorrow? It is a New York City based free musical celebration with over 1000 concerts across all five boroughs, that takes place on on June 21, the longest...
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Time Out New York Puts Neil Gaiman in The Hot Seat
[UPDATED BELOW] You once said that your biggest influence, for your writing, was punk rock—the idea that you could do something just by doing it.
It still is. You have to be willing to make mistakes, and you have to be willing to make mistakes in public. Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. When I was 15 going on 16, punk rock, the idea of...
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If you haven’t yet bought your ticket for the Whiskey Social & Havdalah tomorrow at 92YTribeca, or have had trouble purchasing online, don’t worry. We have plenty of help at walk up, just come on in!
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All Part Of The Experience
At the 92nd Street Y’s dowtown center in Tribeca, it’s okay to take your drink into the theater. In fact, it’s encouraged. And for the monthly film series Beer Goggles, it’s all part of the experience. […] The fun got started for To Wong Foo when guest curator Tom Blunt dialed actress Beth Grant to introduce the film. Holding the mic to his cell phone, Tom nervously quips, “It’s not...
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Toni Morrison: Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize winning author. Novelist, editor and professor Toni Morrison is best-known for such works as The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved (which was adapted into a film). Morrison’s Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning work shakes readers to their cores by taking an unflinching and often haunting look at the black experience in...
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