- David Huddle: “Weather Report.”
The vultures of this landscape came to call
this morning—found a bare-limbed tree outside
my kitchen window, settled in & held
my gaze, big tar blobs against a milky sky:
We understand you, their presence informed me,
And I you, I told them in silence.
Right now . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “The Ask.”
In Lipsyte’s third novel, Milo Burke, a failed artist, works in the development office of a mediocre university in New York to support his resentful wife and preschool-age son. Losing his job after insulting the daughter of a donor, he is offered the chance to win it . . ....
- Shauna Lyon: The Dutch, in SoHo.
paragraph class="noindent">In the old Cub Room space, on a sun-dappled corner in SoHo, chef Andrew Carmellini abandons his talent for pasta—the highlight of his rustic Italian menu at Locanda Verde—for a new restaurant devoted to his culinary whims. If the Cub Room was . . ....
- Patricia Marx: Treasure & Bond in SoHo.
Virtue shopping comes to SoHo. You can be a giver—and, not to worry, also a taker—at the Nordstrom-owned emporium Treasure & Bond, which donates the entirety of its profits to children’s charities, the selection of which changes every three months. (Proceeds are currently . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Bringing a Pet in Your House? What Changes Do You Need to Make to Your Kitchen?
What changes should you make to your kitchen when you get a pet in the house? You will have to take steps to ensure foodstuff in the kitchen is never left out in the open. You will have to do this until the pet is trained properly. The pet will not hesitate to have a taste of the foodstuffs and this tendency will get an encouragement if the food is lying in the open. If you do not want...
- Rebecca Mead: Laurie David’s new cookbook.
Laurie David, the environmental activist and ex-wife of Larry David, has written a new book, “The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time,” and she was at Anthropologie on West Broadway the other evening, signing copies. In the book, David . . ....
- John Lahr: David Hirson and David Mamet on life in the theatre.
Reader, have you noticed a whiff of misrule in the air? At home and abroad, terrorists and Tea Partiers, emboldened by ignorance, are threatening to bring an early fin to our siècle. Civil discourse is strained; understanding is regularly trumped by hectoring—a folly that has a . . ....
- Joan Acocella: David Hallberg in Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
David Hallberg, of American Ballet Theatre, has spent a lot of time in “prince” roles. You can see why. He is six feet one and blindingly handsome, and also—a rare feature—extremely sweet. That’s nice, but you have to wonder: Is there a . . ....
- Joan Acocella: David Gordon’s “Dancing Henry Five.”
David Gordon has always been postmodern dance’s premier minimalist. So you could say he was almost showing off when, in 2004, he took on Shakespeare’s “Henry V”—with its massed armies, its take-charge king, its pretty princess—and made his own . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Why David Beckham Hairstyles Are A Hot Topic
David Beckham is a very well-recognized personality in the world of football. But, his popularity does not stop there. He has also become an international icon. Young women admire his strong physique and athletic abilities. Young men also adore his sense of style. With these facts, it's no wonder why David Beckham hairstyles have become a hot topic as well....
- David Remnick: Gap Year
A year after he stood to the side of the stage at Grant Park and watched his client, the newly elected President, declare America “a place where all things are possible,” the political strategist and steel-eyed disciplinarian David Plouffe was relaxing over eggs and coffee in Lansky . . ....
- Leo Carey: Millesime, at the Carlton Hotel.
paragraph class="noindent">It’s not easy to be a hotel restaurant. Too adventurous and you drive away the hotel guests; too predictable and you become a mere canteen for people who can’t be bothered to go out. Laurent Manrique’s new venture, in a David . . ....
- Learn to Become a Childrens Magician
Big-name magicians such as David Copperfield and David Blaine consistently wow adults. However, there's a specialty for magicians where the wonder is already built-in: Children's magic....
- Patricia Marx: C. Wonder in SoHo
If your name begins with “C,” you are in luck, monogrammatically speaking, because your initial emblazons much of the merchandise at C. Wonder, the SoHo emporium that sells everything from patterned dishes (dinner plates, $12) to chunky bangle bracelets ($28-$68) to motor scooters adorned . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Amelia Lester: Imperial No. Nine, in SoHo.
paragraph class="noindent">The Mondrian is a new hotel with an aggressively downtown demeanor in the neighborhood that real-estate brokers have taken to calling Solita. The hotel’s seafood restaurant feels like a cross between a JetBlue terminal and an expensive gym, catering to a transient crowd carrying . . ....
- Burkhard Bilger: David Eagleman and the mysteries of time and the brain.
When David Eagleman was eight years old, he fell off a roof and kept on falling. Or so it seemed at the time. His family was living outside Albuquerque, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. There were only a few other houses around, scattered among the bunchgrass and the . . ....
- Andrea Thompson: Piccola Cucina, in SoHo.
paragraph class="noindent">This new Italian restaurant in SoHo lives up to its name, and, with only a handful of tables and just two waiters taking orders and tending bar, things get cozy quickly. On a recent evening, the occupants of other tables laughed genially as the staff flirted with . . ....
- David Denby: “Black Narcissus” at MOMA, Oct. 26-28.
A group of English nuns (led by Deborah Kerr) ascend to a former pleasure palace in the Himalayas and try to establish a school, but they are baffled by native superstition and sensuality, not to mention by the taunting presence of a virile Englishman (David Farrar). Though the premise of . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Hilton Als: Director David Cromer’s deliberate, sincere staging.
The theatre director David Cromer is forty-five years old. He was born in Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the city where he first made a name for himself both as a director and as an actor. From the time he was in grade school, he longed to be . . ....
- Ionised Water in the Kitchen
Your kitchen is a source of sickness and disease. It does not matter if you make extraordinary efforts to keep it clean and to keep the food you prepare clean too. Bacteria and viruses mutate and adjust under many circumstances and environments. The use of chemicals to clean your kitchen ware and cutlery will also have negative effects on your health because you are ingesting them with...
- David Denby: Facebook hits the big screen.
8220;The Social Network,” directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, rushes through a coruscating series of exhilarations and desolations, triumphs and betrayals, and ends with what feels like darkness closing in on an isolated soul. This brilliantly entertaining and emotionally wrenching movie is built around a . . ....
- Sasha Frere-Jones: Indecent acts of origami.
In 1987, the singer David Yow and the bassist David Sims were at loose ends after their band, Scratch Acid, broke up. Based in Austin, Scratch Acid was a volcanic, loopy, and virtuosic group led by one of the few singers who can convincingly claim Iggy Pop as an influence . . ....
- Goings on About Town: This Week
The Theatre
CLOWNING AROUND
Mark Rylance, last seen here in “Boeing-Boeing,” returns to Broadway in David Hirson’s comedy “La Bête,” also directed by Matthew Warchus. David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley star as well, at the Music Box.
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- Hilton Als: David Mamet latest book, “Theatre.”
Almost since the beginning of his career, the playwright David Mamet has established certain theories about how theatre artists should approach their work. As it happens, Mamet is a distinctly anti-Stanislavsky creator, eschewing Method acting, and believing that the actor’s inner life is not the point; the . . ....
- Shauna Lyon: The Crosby Bar, in SoHo.
paragraph class="noindent">Why should a place as funky, posh, and oddly friendly as the Crosby Street Hotel (the latest outpost of London’s high-end Firmdale chain) have such middling food? The restaurant certainly looks fabulous: stunning double-height French doors that open onto cobblestoned terraces; eclectic tongue . . ....
- George Packer: The Israeli novelist David Grossman’s long walk.
In February, 2004, the Israeli writer David Grossman set out to walk half the length of his country, along the Israel Trail, from the Lebanese border, in the north, down to his home, outside Jerusalem. The journey, a fiftieth-birthday present to himself, would provide material for a novel that . . ....
- Tad Friend: “Arrested Development”’s David Cross moves to Dumbo.
After nearly eleven years in the East Village, the actor and comedian David Cross was moving on up to Dumbo. As he headed out to take the F train to his new crib, carrying a tape measure to help him determine where his stuff would go, he explained, “I . . . (Subscription required.)...
- John Seabrook: Mavis Staples returns to her gospel roots.
After taping an appearance on last Tuesday’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” Mavis Staples returned to the Hudson Hotel with her sister Yvonne, who sings backup in her band, and they went downstairs to the hotel’s restaurant. They were dressed in faded denim jackets . . ....
