- Old Solomon’s Fish (A Short Story of Macabre Suspense)
Within the Caribbean waters outside of Havana, in a depth of perhaps eighty fathoms, Solomon Parra Tapia was fishing off his new 1987, small twenty-five foot yacht, with his wife, Rosalina Nayelis, he was on deck near the bow (front), she was below towards the stern (back), he did a literary version of the event in Hemingway's book: "The Old Man and the Sea," meaning, he was in his sixties,...
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
ART
GAME ON
March 14-July 9
“Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration,” at MOMA, borrows its theme from the Surrealist game, in which works of art come together collaboratively, Frankenstein-like. On view are works by modern . . ....
- Books: “Hope: A Tragedy” review.
What’s the point of living if life ends in pain and fear? This cheerful thought preoccupies Solomon Kugel, a young family man who has recently moved his wife and toddler to a farmhouse in upstate New York. The meticulously absurd tale begins when Kugel climbs up to his . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
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No longer are video games merely for basements, pizza parlors, and college dormitories; with MOMA’s recent acquisition of Feng Mengbo’s video-game installation “Long March: Restart,” shown at PS1 earlier this year, and MOMA’s current exhibition, “ . . ....
- Patricia Marx: Couch surfing the world.
8220;This is the last thing you want to hear when you’re couch surfing,” said my host, Cortney Fielding, a thirty-year-old freelance writer, when I arrived, this winter, at her one-bedroom apartment in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. “Couch surfing” . . ....
- Joan Acocella: Charles Atlas’s videos of Merce Cunningham, at the New Museum.
At the New Museum through Aug. 28, there is a beautiful small installation, “Charles Atlas: Joints Array,” with twenty-three monitors showing closeups of Merce Cunningham’s elbows, knees, ankles, and so on. It is just such physical facts that Cunningham (1919-2009), in his long career, highlighted . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
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D’Artagnan, the local game purveyor that takes its name from Charles de Batz de Castelmore, the Comte d’Artagnan and the basis for Alexandre Dumas’s character, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with a series of tasty and amusing events. Gascon . . ....
- The Wedding at Cana – Why Did Jesus REALLY Make the Wine?
If we read from Genesis to Revelation, Scripture begins with a wedding, ends with a wedding, and all through out The Bible the Kingdom of heaven is likened to a wedding; God's desired relationship and covenant with His people Israel in the Old Testament, and The Church included in the New Testament--it's always likened to a marriage covenant. We see books like Hosea, Ruth, and Song of Solomon...
- Simple Tips For a Better Posture
Today, our lifestyles involve more activities that involve sitting for long periods of time. Such activities as surfing the internet, texting, and playing video game are all activities that create poor back posture. Correct posture is essential to keep the spine and back healthy. There can be a number negative health impacts when people do no not maintain proper posture....
- Simple Tips For a Better Posture
Today, our lifestyles involve more activities that involve sitting for long periods of time. Such activities as surfing the internet, texting, and playing video game are all activities that create poor back posture. Correct posture is essential to keep the spine and back healthy. There can be a number negative health impacts when people do no not maintain proper posture....
- Books: “Point Omega.”
This thin novel begins and ends with a brilliant analysis of an art installation consisting of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” slowed down so that it lasts twenty-four hours. DeLillo seems to be instructing the reader: “The nature of the film permitted total concentration and also . . ....
- Ten Summer Fun Activities For Satellite TV Subscribers
Channel Surfing. Tried but true, channel surfing is one of the oldest forms of television entertainment, post invention of the remote control that is! Have some time to kill? Why not see how many channels you can scout out in a minute? ...
- Ben McGrath: Does the N.F.L. have a future?
I still remember my first football game. It was 1983. I was six. My father took me to our local high school, in northern New Jersey, and we sat on the home team’s side, but it wasn’t long before my allegiance began to waver. The opponents . . ....
- Books: “A Dead Hand.”
A young Indian man spends a night in a flophouse in Calcutta and wakes up to find a child’s corpse in his room. This is the mystery that the narrator of this crime novel—Theroux’s tentative foray into the genre—is called upon to . . ....
- John Seabrook: Nolan Bushnell’s anti-aging video games.
Nolan Bushnell stopped by the office the other day, to play an anti-aging video game. “It’s what I call a ‘looking forward by looking backward’ game,” he said, settling in at the keyboard and loosening up his shoulders. “Meaning that you have . . ....
- Mark Singer: An art project’s second life in the ocean.
On a recent Saturday, the unceremonious moment arrived when Jules Opton-Himmel introduced his almost but not quite ready to launch boat to the Atlantic Ocean. The vessel in question was a twenty-foot skiff that he started building last year in a driveway in Boston and later moved to . . ....
- Ian Frazier: Ghostly
4B’s Realty of Port Washington, on Long Island, recently tore down a twenty-five-room mansion it owned in the town of Sands Point, a community of the rich on Long Island Sound. The mansion had belonged to Herbert Bayard Swope, years ago, and had hosted many famous . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Reeves Wiedeman: Max Cohen’s taxi race around Manhattan.
How long does it take to drive around Manhattan? About twenty-six minutes, if traffic’s light and you ignore the posted speed limit. Earlier this year, a group of street racers drove from the Staten Island Ferry up the F.D.R. and back down the West Side Highway to . . . (Subscription required.)...
- All About Custom Car Audio Installation
A lot has been said about custom car audio system and its installation. With plenty of websites available on car audio installations out there on internet, you have the reasons to explore them to have clear idea about installing car audio system and customize the installation to fit your car interiors. Websites offer self explanatory pictures lined in sequence which ultimately make you...
- Best Foot Drop Braces
How can you recognize Foot Drop? If you are having difficulty lifting the front part of your foot, this could be a sign that you have foot drop (also known as drop foot). Sometimes this is the only symptom associated with the condition....
- Five Foot Problems Caused by Flat Feet
Flat feet are common around the world, and are the source of many foot problems in those who do not walk barefoot from an early age (which is pretty much most of the world). A flattened foot will require the body to adapt somewhat to the added foot flexibility, and will force the body to devote energy to keeping the foot from over-collapsing and making walking strenuous. In turn, many aspects...
- HHO Fuel is the Latest Fuel to Run Your Car
One can easily get the water to gas conversion kits in the market at affordable rates. The installation process is easy and doesn't take much time. To run your car on HHO fuel you just need to follow the steps given in the installation guides......
- Cartoon Issue: Grim And Bear It.
The personification of death has a long history in art but a relatively short one in the cartoons of The New Yorker. The glum guy with the scythe didn’t appear in these pages until the late nineteen-sixties. But, once on the scene, he quickly became fair game . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Julie Belcove: Painter Jacob Kassay, the art world’s newst star.
In a narrow storefront studio in Chinatown not long ago, Jacob Kassay was trying to wrap his mind around the idea that, at the age of twenty-seven, he has been anointed the art world’s newest star.
“I just wanted to make a good painting,” he . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Tad Friend: A game of pool with Will Ferrell.
Will Ferrell had racked the balls and chalked his cue for a game of eight ball. The only thing lacking was atmosphere. “A little Robert Goulet, if you don’t mind,” he suggested. The actor dropped the tonearm on his Stack-O-Matic turntable, and “(Where . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
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The New Museum presents a video installation that illustrates the filmmaker Atlas’s long and fruitful collaboration with Merce Cunningham. (235 Bowery, at Prince St. 212-219-1222. Through Aug. 28.)
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL
Compared with the overwhelming sprawl . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
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The New Museum presents a video installation by Charles Atlas that illustrates the filmmaker’s long and fruitful collaboration with Merce Cunningham. (235 Bowery, at Prince St. 212-219-1222. Through Aug. 28.)
LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS
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- Hilton Als: “Bill Cunningham New York,” at Film Forum.
For more than twenty years, the fashion reporter and photojournalist Bill Cunningham’s “On the Street” column has been an essential part of the Sunday Times, as has the man himself. Darting about on legs as long and elegant as a stork’s, Cunningham has always . . . (Subscription required.)...
