are we all internet inmates? (part 1)
Last week, famed British writer Zadie Smith made an appearance at NYU, my alma mater. She was there to talk about her recent appointment as the New Books columnist at Harper’s Magazine, and yet the...
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Yesterday, I wrote about Freedom, the software that disables your Internet connection for up to eight hours at a time, thus giving you the “freedom” to get work done. If the devil lives anywhere, it...
View Articletastes and topics at tolaoche
Grasshopper Tacos at Tolaoche, photo courtesy of Lyana Fernández My last post, Eat Like A Man, Look Like A Woman, seems to have struck a nerve – it got the highest views of any post since I started the...
View Articlewatcha reading on, stranger?
I need a better camera, but you get the picture. Saturday morning I set off on my usual walk to the East Village, except I wasn’t sure the whole way there whether I’d wind up at Veselka for Salmon...
View Articlestopped me in my tracks: “still”
I listen to WNYC Radio every day. It’s my television. Last week, I had to pay extra attention when they featured this song from Gretchen Parlato’s new album. It instantly tugged at my heart. And...
View Articleimprovised interview (video): taylor and his ukulele, greenwich village
I was instantly enchanted by this 14-year-old hanging out on 8th Street with his ukulele. Turns out he was keeping watch outside Electric Studios, where a famous recording artist is putting together...
View Articlewhat to do with your mom in new york
For me, there’s only one way to travel: with the tongue. My trips revolve around food. It’s something I learned from my mother, who trained me to eat out since before I could chew. So when my mom...
View Articlefive more reasons to love new york
At the beginning of Love Etc., a new documentary, we see a couple in bed, limbs entwined under a mound of crinkled sheets. “I have to move the car,” mumbles one of them. It’s a slice of New York...
View Articleworth posting for: love stories from storycorps
I haven’t posted in so long, I was worried I’d forgotten how to use WordPress. Thankfully, I’m here. As for the blog slump – I’ve been feeling that I only want to post something that’s truly worth...
View Articleto tv or not to tv: that is the question
…Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of paying a fortune, Or to take arms against a web of troubles, And by unplugging end them: to Wi-Fi, to stream No more; and by a...
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