Before compact discs, before cassette tapes, before eight-track tapes, there was a playback medium called the long-playing record. It was a 12-inch disc (there were also seven-inch discs called “singles”) made of black vinyl (although occasionally they were colored differently). They were encased in a “jacket
Subway numbers reflect aboveground life: Midtown job losses emptied stations; the Bowery boomed with Brooklyn riders. Shepard Fairey completes mural for his Deitch Projects show, the gallery's last-ever exhibit. He decided he wanted a skeleton he could take apart. Creating artwork from human bones. Artist surveys subway
Paula McCartney’s portraits of fake birds in real landscapes are not digitally enhanced, but they do trick the eye.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir wins multi-party election. South Korean ship sunk by bubble jet, attacker unknown; Seoul suspends North Korean tourism jaunts. Obama reneges on campaign promise, uses euphemisms to discuss the Armenian Genocide. Op: The public's fluctuating dismay and renewed faith in Wall
Given the subject—Barack Obama—and the author—Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and New Yorker editor David Remnick—it makes sense that Remnick’s new tome, The Bridge (Knopf), would receive widespread attention and review coverage. And it probably would, at some point, make more sense or be (at the
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. When a reader asks about housewarming gifts, we see Armageddon in the neighborhood.
Greek prime minister calls for help from "a sinking ship," so he may "rebuild our ship with strong and resilient materials." Op: Default by a eurozone member need not spell the ruin of the currency. Mugabe backs Iran's nuclear program. The first great financial
I am not au courant with the latest taxonomical view of what was (and still is, I suppose) at one point referred to as the “graphic novel.” Though that rubric may be troublesome, other possibilities are no less insufficient—comic books, cartoons, still movies. In any case, what is clear
Moody's dings Toyota's credit rating, estimates the carmaker's sales will suffer through at least 2012. "I kind of just combined the flavors and added the shrimp." S.S.A. employees hold a cook-off. Forty years ago, Earth Day eschewed corporations; now
By now, the financial crisis has touched nearly every corner of the population. But only recently has the Order of the Blood of Thoth felt the pinch.
