Archive for March, 2009

One dish at a time

Some people rate a restauran by ther overall quality — for sometimes it’s not the place but the dish — which is to say that I will rush to a terrible place with one great dish. So as an occasional feature I will start listing the one dishes I like (ofte at places that no [...]

Hate the financial game, not the player

Jake DeSantis published his AIG resignation in the New York Times the other day. It was well-written and hearfelt. DeSantis described the way he and his fellow workers were betrayed by AIG, how promises were made repeatedly and broken, how difficult work conditions have become, and how it;s no longer worth it for him, how [...]

Ars Choralis (incl. Nancy Chusid) performs music played at Birkenau

Yesterday the New York Times reported on a upstate New York Group, Ars Choralis and their performance of music performed by the women’s orchestra at Birkenau. The women’s orchestra who played for the enjoyment of the Nazi guards and as a distraction to the soon-to-be-murdered Jews, and who survived for doing so, in one of [...]

Demjanjuk: traveling man?

According to a story in the Associated Press this morning (and thanks to my information provider Eric Fettmann),
The U.S. government said Tuesday that it has contacted the German government to get travel documents needed to complete the deportation of accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk.

Simon Dumenco at Ad age agrees with me about media exec compensation

At at a time when media companies are laying off so many employees and their stock price is sagging even if their performance is not, why are the top executives continuing to reel in ridicculous compensation packages: $30 Million for Robert Iger, $28 Million for Peter Chernin and $27 Million for Rupert Murdoch, Sumner redstone, [...]

Austin weekly survives in bad economy by local cultural coverage

The new York Times this morning has an article about Austin’s free weekly that founded the South by SOuthwest music festival that continues to thrive in these tough times because of their hyperlocal reporting and because of their cultural coverage.  Other papers take note!

Woody Allen, Madoff’s avenging angel

Who’d a thunk it? Woody Allen has found a way a way to channel anger at Madoff into a humor piece of revenge. As publishied in this week’s New Yorker, Allen imagines two of Madoff’s victims recently deceased, reincarnated as lobsters in a tank in a NY restaurant who realize they’ve come back to get [...]

More SID Grauman

There’s always more than can fit in one column (particularly these days as editorial space shrinks). With regard to Sid Grauman, first off I alluded to the practical joke played by Grauman on Lubitsch that caused him to have or almost have a midl heart attac. Here’s the story.
Lubitsch was apparently afraid to fly, Grauman [...]

music musings

“The Future’s so bright I gotta wear shades” such were the words from Timbuk 3, a band that seems to have disappeared into one hit wonderland along with the market confidence expressed in the song.
But my Ipod always has a good response (How do it know?) — a few songs later it replied with Taj [...]

Phoebe Snow’s roots (from the NY Post Page Six)

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IS PHOEBE AS WHITE AS SNOW?

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