The Kansas City Star today picked up that Times wire service article on cocktail geeks of the LES that we mentioned Dec. 3.
The Star's headline: Amateur cocktail connoisseurs form brotherhood over ice.
Showing posts with label slow news day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slow news day. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2008
Slow news day in Kansas City?
The Kansas City Star today picked up that Times wire service article on cocktail geeks of the LES that we mentioned Dec. 3.
The Star's headline: Amateur cocktail connoisseurs form brotherhood over ice.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Posts that I never got around to, uh, posting this summer (probably for real good reasons)
Finding the lone Norbit fan on Thompson Street (or in the city).
An analysis of a Taco Bell "for sale" sign:
That nice chunk of real estate on Third Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street --formerly home to a Taco Bell -- has been sitting empty for ages. Maybe it's that inexpensive "for rent" sign with the handwritten phone number that just makes it look, well, cheap. What, you throwing a garage sale or do you want to do some business? The landlord must have thought the same thing! They've now added a new sign! Two of them!
Portable, electricity-free air conditioners: The styles trend piece the Times missed.
One-man protest at City Hall.
An analysis of a Taco Bell "for sale" sign:
That nice chunk of real estate on Third Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street --formerly home to a Taco Bell -- has been sitting empty for ages. Maybe it's that inexpensive "for rent" sign with the handwritten phone number that just makes it look, well, cheap. What, you throwing a garage sale or do you want to do some business? The landlord must have thought the same thing! They've now added a new sign! Two of them!
The Grand Opening at 16 Handles on Second Avenue.
Making the sidewalks safe for walking in a gum-free environment in front of Walgreens on Union Square.
Portable, electricity-free air conditioners: The styles trend piece the Times missed.
One-man protest at City Hall.
The neat trail of lottery tickets on 10th Street.
Analyzing this Ann Taylor ad on Broadway: Is she falling? (If so, why does she look so happy?) Is she jumping? (If so, what is she jumping into nearly fully dressed?)
A job for the mattress police on 10th Street.
The disapearance of the rickety fan in front of the bodega on Avenue B next to 7B.
After months of standing on the sidewalk, it was gone.
Helping the New York Post with bad headline puns: So the New York Knicks drafted Italian League star Danilo Gallinari with their first-round draft pick in June. The Post quickly called him "The Italian Hero." Well, to help our tabloid headline writers, here are a few more possibilities for the 2008-09 season:
Helping the New York Post with bad headline puns: So the New York Knicks drafted Italian League star Danilo Gallinari with their first-round draft pick in June. The Post quickly called him "The Italian Hero." Well, to help our tabloid headline writers, here are a few more possibilities for the 2008-09 season:
The Italian Stallion
The Italian Job
Oh, Dani boy
That's Italian!
(After getting ejecting for arguing with a ref) Italian wine
Italian air
That's amore!
Baskotti
Analyzing this Ann Taylor ad on Broadway: Is she falling? (If so, why does she look so happy?) Is she jumping? (If so, what is she jumping into nearly fully dressed?)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Ad of the day
On West Broadway. Just one of the four icons that Vans has chosen for this new campaign. Oh, and Motörhead's new album is out today.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Developing story today...heartburn
Goldenfiddle noticed the important news from New York City yesterday that CNN was working on developing...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
"Bad" news for drummer and his West 11th Street home
From today's Post!
By LARRY CELONA and ADAM NICHOLS May 29, 2008 -- Thieves took more than $350,000 worth of jewelry in a Memorial Day raid on the Greenwich Village home of Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke, cops said.
The musician found the jewels missing from a safe when he returned home from a weekend out of town with his family. Two laptop computers worth $3,000 were also missing, cops said.Cops found the front and back doors of the West 11th Street apartment Kirke shares with his wife and four children unlocked with no signs of being forced, a police source said.
Kirke told them he couldn't remember whether he'd locked them.The Englishman was also unsure whether he had locked the safe inside the house before the family left, the source said.
Kirke was a founding member of the band Free, whose hit "All Right Now" reached No. 1in more than 20 countries.He set up Bad Company after Free broke up in 1973.That band sold 60 million records, including "Rock and Roll Fantasy" and "Feel Like Makin' Love."Since leaving Bad Company in 2002, he has been songwriting and occasionally performing. He made a how-to-play-drums DVD in 2006 titled "Lessons from a Legend."
And why did this take two Post reporters to cover? One to talk to cops, one to search Wikipedia?
Bonus!
Double bonus!
By LARRY CELONA and ADAM NICHOLS May 29, 2008 -- Thieves took more than $350,000 worth of jewelry in a Memorial Day raid on the Greenwich Village home of Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke, cops said.
The musician found the jewels missing from a safe when he returned home from a weekend out of town with his family. Two laptop computers worth $3,000 were also missing, cops said.Cops found the front and back doors of the West 11th Street apartment Kirke shares with his wife and four children unlocked with no signs of being forced, a police source said.
Kirke told them he couldn't remember whether he'd locked them.The Englishman was also unsure whether he had locked the safe inside the house before the family left, the source said.
Kirke was a founding member of the band Free, whose hit "All Right Now" reached No. 1in more than 20 countries.He set up Bad Company after Free broke up in 1973.That band sold 60 million records, including "Rock and Roll Fantasy" and "Feel Like Makin' Love."Since leaving Bad Company in 2002, he has been songwriting and occasionally performing. He made a how-to-play-drums DVD in 2006 titled "Lessons from a Legend."
And why did this take two Post reporters to cover? One to talk to cops, one to search Wikipedia?
Bonus!
Double bonus!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
So, what's going on in the world today?
The Post gives the film 1.5 stars out of four. As Lou Lumenick writes:
New Yorkers put up with noise, lack of privacy, tiny expensive apartments and countless other daily insults. But will they shell out 12 bucks for what amounts to a 21/2-hour "very special" TV episode of "Sex and the City" that feels like it was written and directed by an audience focus group in Omaha?
If the ecstatic reaction at the screening I attended is any indication, they might - at least if they're not heterosexual males bored by the movie's endless fashion montages, shameless product placements, lethally slow pacing and utterly predictable plot.
And how was the glitzy premiere of the movie last night at Radio City?
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