Gramercy Tavern is the site of one of my favorite New York moments. It has everything to do with crisp, professional service and celery root soup. I am sad to see that owner Danny Meyer and chef Tom Colicchio have parted ways on the venerable establishment. Mr. Colicchio has decided to focus his efforts on … Read more
Regular Horticulturists might’ve noticed a lot of music around here as of late, even though in, in real life, much time is being spent at the theater–this being the opening of the big, fall theater season ‘n all. Although I’ll be at The Guthrie tonight watching Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, a piece of my … Read more
Dead Man’s Shoes, 2004. Directed by Shane Meadows, written by Meadows, Paddy Considine and Paul Fraser. Starring Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley, Seamus O’Neill, Stuart Wolfenden, Paul Sadot, Paul Hurstfield, Emily Aston, George Newton, and Neil Bell. Available pretty much everywhere on DVD. If my memory serves me correctly, it used to be … Read more
Here’s a benefit event that’s been circling amidst my cyber-friends: CONRAD’S ALL-STAR REVUE, A BENEFIT FOR CONRAD SVERKERSON AND THE TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST; translation: a fundraiser for all the low-income music industry-types who can’t afford health insurance–but are stricken with illnesses, such as treatable but expensive forms of cancer, and get themselves into … Read more
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. –Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood ‘You must journey down another road,’ he answered, when he saw me lost in tears, ‘if ever you hope to leave … Read more
I want this for my birthday. Terms For Money That Are Food Related Dough Bread Nest Egg Greens Sugar Cabbage Lettuce Beans Bones Clams Coconuts Fish Nugget Squid Crispies Rutabaga
Diversions and anodynes, to help you forget about the closing of that long, holiday weekend as well as the fact that this, officially, signals the onset of fall (and who knows, you might like that sort of thing… autumn, I mean): Doomtree plays First Ave tonight. M. Ward plays the Varsity. The Coreopsis Poetry Collective … Read more
The summer is fading. The moon is easing down to sleep in the trees, even as the stars step back into the dark country of heaven. They look like a small cluster of island villages in the North Sea, seen from an airplane at night. A fox, interloper here in the middle of a city … Read more
Just pointing out that today is the 67th anniversary of the beginning of World War II in Europe. Tomorrow is the 61st anniversary of the surrender of Japan. Ten days from now is the fifth anniversary of 9/11/2001. World War II in Europe lasted 2076 days. America’s involvement in WW II lasted 1365 days. It’s … Read more
Sign o’ the local theater scene picking back up: Emigrant Theater, a newcomer company, opens a pretty cool-sounding show this evening. Check what we wrote about it for the theater page of our September issue, in So Little Time (or the section formerly known as “Broken Clock”). From here on out ’til November the theatergoing … Read more