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On Not Thrashing M.F.K. Either

Written by Andrey Slivka on January 11, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Porn, Pastoral, Etc. The development that followed Mitchell’s demise and made it possible to see the old fellow as anything other than a genteel schnorrer was Tina Brown’s revitalization of The New Yorker, which let you view the pre-Brown magazine from an improving distance, to forget how dull the old thing could be and to
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In God’s Country

Written by Andrey Slivka on January 5, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"Given the strong economy," the fellow who wrote the release informs us, "a general feeling of bonhomie seems to be permeating diners nationally. The average tip across the US is now 17.75%, with 43% of surveyors saying they tip 20% or more. Diners in Boston are leading this trend with an average tip of 18.35%
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Christmas As Ideological Apparatus

Written by Andrey Slivka on December 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

This year Christmas began during the first weekend of November. I saw it happening in Soho that weekend–saw the Christmas displays materializing in the windows. Yes, it was I who bore witness; it was I who saw the Christmas lights stringing during the first cold Saturday of that premature month. An unstoppable juggernaut, and within
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The Final Outrage

Written by Andrey Slivka on December 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

What is it? A pie that’s informed mainly by cherries (both sweet cherries and sour dried cherries) and chestnuts (in the form of a confection compounded of chestnut flour, butter, sugar and rum) and that can be purchased at any one of the several branches of the excellent Ecce Panis bakery: at 3rd and 66th;
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Slavic Anticipation

Written by Andrey Slivka on December 14, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"Does the world really work that way, though?" I asked my dinner companions, my forehead wrinkling in perturbation at the morally complacent suspicion that, yes, it does work precisely in that way, and hardly ever in any other. "I mean, if he’s doing a good job–which I assume he is–why would it matter that he’s
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Why’s It So Hard to Cook in New York?

Written by Andrey Slivka on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The rat situation of this block of W. 108th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave., is surreal. Or it used to be. You’d see dozens of the rodents every time you walked down the block late enough at night. Scores if you were some student waiting in the glow of a streetlamp in a furtive
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The Rat Man of Elizabeth St.

Written by Andrey Slivka on November 16, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

CUT TO: NEIGHBORS, AGHAST. It’s a primal neighborhood myth–this Joseph Kirsh-as-rat-boiler myth–and it persists as a joke among some residents upon Little Italy’s now-affluent northern fringe. I was told the story by a resident of 239 Elizabeth St., a stately, and in fact Stanford White-designed, property that Kirsh–that long-haired and apocryphal rat-boiler, and a man
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Beau Jest

Written by Andrey Slivka on November 16, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

And yet several good restaurants persist in celebrating the wine’s annual arrival. This year the stuff hits stores on Nov. 17, and L’Express, Les Halles and Tout Va Bien will all mobilize–as has become customary–at the stroke of midnight on that special day. L’Express: a prix fixe dinner, paired with overpublicized wine. Les Halles: live
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Breakfast at Balthazar

Written by Andrey Slivka on November 16, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

My affection for Balthazar’s brunch was why I was so intrigued by the restaurant’s breakfast service, which begins on weekday mornings at 7:30. Getting up early’s an excruciating act that nonetheless works proactively to redeem your entire day, because it grounds you in the hyperreality of the early hours, when the gates of perception are
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No Linkage: the Klan & Klinton

Written by Andrey Slivka on November 9, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"I think it was an extraordinary event," he says of the counterdemonstration. "I’d be the first to admit that I never thought we’d have six to eight thousand people there… And the diversity of the crowd was just what we’d hoped for… The real story is that we ran the KKK out of town. And
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