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Feb.05.2010
Place your angle of vision under a coffee table in a doctor’s waiting room. Let’s assume it’s an upscale, upper East Side place with Mies Van der Rohe chrome and leather banquettes. Let’s make the carpeting a Silva Bruns design. Not a familiar name? All right, change it to the ubiquitous...
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Dec.08.2009
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Like it or not, parallels exist between the two separate-but-similar battles for civil rights. I received some flack the other day for posting the title statement on my Facebook page (“Gay is the new black.”), and in turn, learned there is some resistance against aligning the two...
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Nov.25.2009
Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in-chief of paranoiaisfact.com, guest columnist for the Daily Event, answers readers' questions.
Dear Igor,
When the upcoming terrorist trials were announced my husband Todd rented a back hoe and started digging an underground bunker in our front yard. He's down there...
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Nov.25.2009
If you are coming to New York City during the holidays and you want to see a show - book some tickets to The 39 Steps. Based on the movie by Alfred Hitchcock, it is a comedic tour de farce with some of the best physical comedy I've seen live. Four actors play fifty characters at break neck speed...
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Nov.13.2009
Maybe After the Jobs Summit, We Can Invite Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Back to the White House for a Beer
President Obama has announced that he is going to have a Jobs Summit in December.
For the love of God, Barack, can't you do anything without some grandstanding? You've finally come to accept the fact that joblessness is a problem - despite your claims that the stimulus has created or saved - what...
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Nov.06.2009
I have been many things, but my favorite me was Me-The-Bookseller. For a time, I ran an out-of-print book search service for university libraries, and when librarians’ lists arrived I would check my personal stash for potential sales, and then scurry to The Strand in New York City. What a...
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Nov.04.2009
There is a holiday for everything. Executive Assistants Day, Grandparents Day, President’s Day (don’t these important men deserve days of their own?). According to my mother, every day is children’s day even when your children are adults. So Mom, where’s my daily present?
Hands down my...
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Oct.11.2009
The celebration of one literary laureate kicked off when the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature to German-Romanian Herta Mϋller October 8, 2009. The celebration of another literary laureate got underway October 7, when Amiri Baraka, one of African America's...
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Oct.07.2009
You don’t have to go all the way to Europe to see Michelangelo’s work. In fact, this fall two major museums are celebrating Michelangelo in a big way.
A Young Michelangelo in Ft. Worth
The Kimbell Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas recently purchased a painting attributed to Michelangelo known as “The...
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Sep.12.2009
Today, on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, many channels ran specials, some of which I DVR'ed. After watching one tonight, taped in 2002, interviewing photographers who captured images that day, watching unbelievable images documented that day, I felt compelled to write something - if not to honor...
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