June 2011
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Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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Bradley-Martin Ball →
Why don’t we learn stuff like this in History class? The Bradley-Martin Ball was a lavish costume ball at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City on the night of February 10, 1897. Mrs. Cornelia Bradley-Martin organized the ball, with the intention of making it “the greatest party in the history of the city.” Eight hundred socialites spent about $400,000 imitating kings and...
Jun 29th
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It’s absolutely amazing how memes get started. See: Why is “Nigel Thornberry” trending on Twitter?
Jun 28th
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Beach, Joyce & Fitzgerald →
On this day in 1928 Sylvia Beach hosted a dinner party so that F. Scott Fitzgerald, who “worshipped James Joyce, but was afraid to approach him,” might do so … According to Herbert Gorman, another guest and Joyce’s first biographer, Fitzgerald sank down on one knee before Joyce, kissed his hand, and declared: “How does it feel to be a great genius, Sir? I am so...
Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment →
Five years after Hawthorne’s Twice-told Tales appeared in 1837, Edgar Allan Poe (hardly the easiest of critics to please) reviewed the collection and declared, “emphatically, that they belong to the highest region of Art.” … One of the stories Poe singled out was “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” which he found “exceedingly well imagined and executed with surpassing ability. The artist...
Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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Week's Eats in Review
Klong (East Village - 7 St. Mark’s Pl.) Went here with the other interns for lunch. Ordered $7 pad thai noodle lunch special and also received free soup and an appetizer (I picked spring rolls). Delicious! Here’s NY Mag’s review of it. You can check out the menu there, too. - Massawa (Upper West - 1239 Amsterdam Avenue) My first venture into Ethiopian cuisine, and I...
Jun 27th
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Was William Shakespeare A Pothead? →
Jun 26th
How many books will you read in your lifetime? →
Jun 24th
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Undecided →
Jun 23rd
Get Out of Town: Has the celebration of cities... →
Jun 22nd
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“Home, home is a fire, A burning reminder Of where we belong… With...”
– Death Cab for Cutie, “Home is A Fire”
Jun 18th