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Greenmarket Pairings

Written by admin on . Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Warming weather means several things in my household. The chaotic and simultaneous packing/unpacking of the new season’s clothes; the fantasizing (and realistic planning) of our summer vacation; and the farmer’s market around the corner opening up again. Unlike the Union Square market, our meager outpost is only open from mid-spring to early fall. But the
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Pick Up That Phone

Written by admin on . Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Here’s to more true public service messages, like this pre-cell-phone-explosion public phone booth Mother’s Day ad. Cell phones make it less physically “troubling” to pick up the phone, and most will be picked up on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, to call you-know-who. But is there the follow-up to make the everyday difference that counts?
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‘Double Depositing’

Written by admin on . Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: In the article “D-Day: How to weigh college acceptances and make the big decision” (April 16), my remarks were inadvertently mischaracterized in a way that made it seem as if I were recommending that admitted students put down enrollment deposits at more than one college. No responsible admissions professional would suggest that
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No Commuter Tax

Written by admin on . Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: Borough President and potential 2013 mayoral candidate Scott Stringer’s support of the commuter tax (“Scott Stringer Engages the City,” April 8) missed the potential consequences of his position. The metropolitan New York area, comprising New York City, Long Island, northeast New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and parts of southwestern Connecticut, is in
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Governors Island: A Different Idea

Written by admin on . Posted in Opinion and Column

Gov. David Paterson recently relinquished the state’s one-half control of Governors Island to New York City, giving Mayor Michael Bloomberg complete authority over the future of the 172-acre property. Numerous proposals have been floated for this space, but few offer an appropriate use of the remaining land. I would like to propose a novel idea:
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Harry Brown

Written by admin on . Posted in Arts & Film, Film

In Harry Brown, Michael Caine plays a vigilante pensioner. That might have been a more memorable title for a movie that pretends to have a social conscience as it exposes London’s current drugs and gang epidemic. It takes a military vet like Caine’s Harry Brown, seeking revenge for an old mate’s murder by a group
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The Anti-Greenberg

Written by admin on . Posted in Arts & Film, Film

White guilt is so out-of-fashion that Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give invokes charity instead. It takes on the obscure subject of self-aware people who cannot rise above their class advantages yet are, in fact, weakened by them. Kate (Catherine Keener) feels compelled to give money to homeless people loitering outside her Village condominium. She runs a
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