Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, on New York’s two new baseball stadiums, “the first time that two major-league stadiums have opened in the same city at the same time”: “A stadium is a stage set as sure as anything on Broadway, and it determines the tone of the dramas within. Citi [...]
Archive for March 19th, 2009
The Houses HOK Built: The “New” Yankee Stadium & the Mets’ Citi Field
Posted in Architecture, Baseball, Business, New York City, Popular Culture, Sports, U.S. Travel, Urban Affairs on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Selling Short: George W. Bush’s Sad Book Deal
Posted in Books, Bush, Business, Politics, Writers & Writing on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“There’s now a rumored-price tag on George W. Bush‘s forthcoming memoirs, ‘Decision Points:’ a $7 million advance from publisher Crown. How does that stack up to other Deciders? “It’s $5 million less than Bill Clinton‘s advance for My Life, $1 million less than Hillary Clinton got for Living History, and $2 million less than the advance for the memoirs of Tony Friggin’ Blair, the British prime minister who [...]
