November 24th, 2009
The news broke yesterday – our apologies for responding so sluggishly to this momentous event: Russ & Daughters will now toast your bagel.
Turkey tip from Pizza a Casa mastermind (and longtime Chinatown resident) Mark Bello: let the Chinese place on the corner prepare your bird Peking-style!
Saxelby Cheesemongers in the Essex Street Market is [...]
November 24th, 2009
"Julian Plenti is Skyscraper," is the solo debut of Paul Banks, the vocalist of the downtown indie band, Interpol. The Times says: "It is full of prickly,
post-punk guitars and sharp-but-distant vocals (all familiar territory
for Interpol fans). But Julian Plenti is a darker, brasher and more
sinister singer than Paul Banks, and bears more resemblance — vocally,
at [...]
November 24th, 2009
Tonight at White Box Projects, the opening of Spanish Artist Juanli Carrion's "Atlas Shrugged." The exhibition takes its title from "Ayn Rand's groundbreaking 1957 novel. The title is appropriated," according to White Box, "in an ironic way, as opposed to the
Philosophy of Objectivism advocated by the novelist, in order to speak
about [...]
November 24th, 2009
Photos by Joel Raskin
Back in May, we reported that parents from P.S. 110 were campaigning for traffic signals on Delancey and Lewis streets, near the school. Community Board 3 asked the Department of Transportation to look at the intersection, alongside the Williamsburg Bridge. This morning, Lo-Down reader Joel [...]
November 24th, 2009
In a New York Post op-ed piece, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he and his colleagues are willing to make the hard choices that will be necessary to end the state's budget crisis. And in a sign of the Apocalypse, the Post responds by calling Silver "the last adult in Albany," who may [...]
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