Once the fastest commercial jet in the world, in 1999 setting a New York-London speed record of 2:59:59 that still stands, this British Airways Concorde was temporarily “airborne” today. Suspended above the Hudson River, the airliner is carefully being placed upon a pier next to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum after a year’s [...]
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A study at UCLA has found that the Internet is actually “good” for the brain.” (And all this time, I was convinced that I was losing my mind because of it.) Researchers there have determined that internet surfing, like “solving crossword puzzles” (or uncapping child-proof bottles, I may add), can reduce “brain shrinkage” and related [...]
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The Times Square U.S. Debt Clock was erected on February 20, 1989 in those happy-go-lucky days of Reaganomics when prosperity seemed just a dream away and when credit lines were multidimensional. Built by the late and greatly forgotten real estate mogul Seymour Durst it was designed to call attention to the less-than-happy side effects of [...]
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Wonders never cease in my tiresomely fashionable Park Slope, Brooklyn neighborhood. Little surprise they “clepe us” liberals and gentrified-beings (which, I interpret, means post-yuppies living in a state of suspended post-modernism) and with “swinish phrase” soil our routine pretensions, making us “traduced and taxed” of other neighborhoods. (My apologies to Hamlet. Like him, verbose speculator [...]
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Autumn in New York, as the Vernon Duke song goes, is often mingled with pain because the promise of new love is as inviting as that of autumn leaves: beautiful yet dying. The beauty of half-remembered loves and half-forgotten days are eternal in these glittering crowds and shimmering clouds that the wind carries through canyons [...]
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Being a New Yorker, every time I see a crowd gathered around something, I usually suspect that either an accident or a crime had occurred. Living all my life in a city where crowds are commonplace, the commonplace crowds becomes unusual when not in motion and unusually stationary; the worst is expected when people here [...]
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“Sarah Palin/Live Here/See Wall Street,” reads the sign on one of many NYC building projects that is rising while the market sinks. It’s the city’s way of poking fun at Palin’s marvelous claim of being able to “see” Russia across the Bering Strait, her lack of economic credentials and nonexistent foreign policy credentials…while, at the [...]
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clipped from weirdynews.blogspot.com This is from a post entitled “10 Creepiest Old Ads,” posted at “Weird News From All Over The World.” The ad is from 1979 for Pakistan Airlines and to call it anything less than EXTREMELY WEIRD would be an extreme understatement. From what I’m able to ascertain, it looks genuine. (I’m sorry [...]
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In ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968), that most devilishly delightful film, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences a dream which is possibly no dream at all but is really happening and which quickly turns into a nightmare. It’s 4 October 1965 and earlier that evening Rosemary had eaten a piece of chocolate mousse (courtesy of her bewitching neighbor Minnie) [...]
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A new production of Orson Welles‘ WAR Of THE WORLDS will be performed at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts on October 26. Directed by “Star Trek: The Next Generation” star John de Lancie, with a production that allows the viewer to see how and why so many people panicked when they heard the [...]
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clipped from www.geekculture.com A genius if there ever was one: This hardheaded mastermind is so ridiculously self-assured and self-involved in his very little “Cowboy and Indian” playtime world that his wisdom is beyond that of mere mortals with more trivial pursuits…like paying their bills and living and dying. Sphere: Related Content
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