“The horse show descends upon New-York again this week, certain of a hearty welcome” (via The Library of Congress)
Still from Who’s Afraid of The Wolf? (Kdopak By Se Vlka Bál) playing soon at BAM’s New Czech Films series
FREE downloadable “instant guides” to ten major U.S. cities. Good to have on hand for visitors! Keep ‘em occupied on their own for four hours or so.
"[Puddles] and Happy seem to have hit it off. They have been seen licking each other, although hippos are also known to lick the floor."
— Thoroughly amusing article about Happy the hippo’s move from DC to Milwaukee.
For Happy the hippo, moving from Washington to Milwaukee has been a pleasure - washingtonpost.com [via]
For Happy the hippo, moving from Washington to Milwaukee has been a pleasure - washingtonpost.com [via]
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, “Home”
Can’t get enough of this song right now. Really bummed I didn’t get tickets to the show next week before it sold out. Anyone got an extra?
Friday, November 13, 7:30 PM
Greenlight Bookstore, Fort Greene
NYRB Classics 10th Anniversary Celebration
Featuring publisher Edwin Frank with authors Matt Weiland, Jhumpa Lahiri, and L. J. Davis
Like most sane people, I love pretty much anything pumpkin flavored. This is the best list ever.
The NYPL Digital Gallery has some amazing stuff. Staten Island in vintage postcards, landscapes of the American West, (here) pictures of science. Bookmark it.
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers, all twenty-one of them. The solution: twenty-one specimen boxes, the kind used by butterfly collectors like Nabokov, each created by a different designer.
Project directed by John Gall; above, Invitation to a Beheading, Helen Yentus and Jason Booher
The Nabokov Collection: Slideshow: Observatory: Design Observer
During my only visit to the divided Berlin, in 1988, I had experienced the city in all its terrifying absurdity. I vividly recall the so-called ghost stations of the subway: Some Western subway lines passed through Eastern territory, resulting in a surreal commute. Imagine getting on the uptown 6 train at Union Square, but instead of stopping at 23rd, 28th and 33rd Streets, the train just slows down, and you are peeking out at dimly lit platforms patrolled by heavily armed soldiers from an enemy army. Then you get off at Grand Central to buy the paper and a bagel as if nothing had happened.
Over the Wall - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com
From May 2009, but appropriate for a resurrection today, exactly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall: Christoph Niemann explores his experience in Germany in the late ’80s and today.
“You got Leontes in my Shylock! You got Hermione in my Portia! For its next season of Shakespeare in the Park, the Public Theater plans to attract audiences — one hopes without perplexing its performers — by staging two of the Bard’s plays in repertory with the same company of actors. On Monday, the Public said that it would mount productions of The Merchant of Venice and The Winter’s Tale that would run from June 9 through Aug. 1.”
As You Like It and The Tempest
Last spring, The Bridge Project launched its inaugural season at BAM with an outstanding ensemble of American and British actors in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard. Led by Tony and Academy Award–winning director Sam Mendes, year two of The Bridge Project promises another stellar transatlantic lineup and an intriguing pairing of two Shakespeare plays as Mendes and company explore outcasts, power, and magical lands with their world premiering productions of the comedy As You Like It and The Tempest, considered to be Shakespeare’s last play.
I enjoyed the first installment and will be attending this if anyone wants to join! As You Like It is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. Tickets on sale December 7, starting at $25.
- sister: did you know dad is on facebook?
- me: WHAT
- sister: i know right
- me: how come he didn't FRIEND ME?
- sister: he didn't friend me either
