“The Oscar Wilde Bookshop in Greenwich Village, which is believed to be the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore in the country, will close on March 29, its owner announced on Tuesday, citing “the current economic crisis.” The announcement came nearly five years after the store was about to close, only to be given a last-minute reprieve when a [...]
Archive for February 3rd, 2009
Country’s Oldest Gay & Lesbian Bookstore to Close
Posted in Books, Business, Economy, New York City, Sex & Gender on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Street Vendor Project & The Death of A Salesman
Posted in Business, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Food & Wine, New York City, Obituaries on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times ran an obituary yesterday about Joseph Ades, “the white-haired man with the British accent, the expensive European suits and shirts,” who had been a fixture among the vendors at the Greenmarket in Manhattan’s Union Square. I was drawn to the article not because of a remembered encounter with Ades but because [...]
Donald Judd’s West Texas Contemporary Art Xanadu
Posted in American West, Art & Artists, Food & Wine, U.S. Travel on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marfa, Texas, long a tourist destination for devotees of paranormal phenomena who journey to this remote desert outpost for a chance to experience the Marfa Lights, is still in many ways a typical small Texas town where languorous locals are animated by talk of high school football. But when I visited Marfa two years ago while [...]
Is Food the New Sex?
Posted in Food & Wine, Sex & Gender on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Of all the truly seismic shifts transforming daily life today — deeper than our financial fissures, wider even than our most obvious political and cultural divides — one of the most important is also among the least remarked. That is the chasm in attitude that separates almost all of us living in the West today from [...]
I LEGO N.Y.
Posted in New York City on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After 11 years in New York, illustrator Christoph Niemann moved to Berlin with his wife and young sons. “During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.” (via NY [...]
