A Theatrical Confrontation in L.A.

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Saturday night we see The Weir at the Geffen Playhouse–oddly appropriate, considering it’s St. Patrick’s Day. The play is a bit of a bore, but my wife–let’s call her Jil–enjoys it. Throughout the play, whenever Jil laughs, the woman sitting in the seat in front of her looks back and scowls. As the play ends
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Injured Spectator

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

What the deuce is going on at The Spectator? England’s most elegantly written weekly (as they say at www.spectator.co.uk), home base to Toby Young, Paul Johnson, Taki and others, has suddenly gone all touchy-feely and politically correct. Well, not completely–the writers just mentioned, as well as Mark Steyn and Theodore Dalrymple, continue to entertain and
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Christopher Hitchens Fends Off Charges of Apartheid Complicity

Written by Spencer Ackerman on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

It’s getting to the point where you can’t call a premier American statesman a war criminal without taking flak of your own. Christopher Hitchens, possibly the world’s greatest gadfly, learned this lesson last week at the Union Square Barnes & Noble as he made the case for indicting Henry Kissinger. Encouraging questions from the audience
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OUTDOORS Tours & Hikes 92ND ST. Y …

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

92ND ST. Y TOURS Extensive program of tours & trips in & outside of New York City. This week: "Kykuit, Lundhurst & Union Church," Thurs. at 9; "Victorian Cape May," Sun. at 8; "Inside Private Homes in Park Slope," Sun. at 10; "Battery Park City," Sun. at 1; "From Brazil To New Amsterdam: Sephardic Jews,"
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The Commute

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

I used to drive to work to Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans every morning at 7 a.m. I’d always speed past a billboard that read "Thou Shall Not Kill" in 7-foot-high white letters against a black background. Of course, the statement was quite literal down there. The reminder placed in any other city would
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Heigh Ho Hum

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Uh-oh. It’s election time again in Blighty. Tony Blair, the Snow White of British politics, is bringing out the seven dwarfs in all of us. I’ve become Sleepy listening to his radio broadcasts, and most of my friends are Grumpy. A few Dopeys are voting Labor, and nobody is Happy. There may not be a
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Shrek: The Best American Movie of the Year

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The best American movie of the year stars a thick-necked, flatulent ogre who gobbles down bugs and makes candles out of his own ear wax. His name is Shrek, and the fairytale that bears his name is one of the few big-budget summer movies in recent memory that’s not only destined to be a huge
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PERFORMANCE ART BROTHER Multimedia show pres. "songs your mother …

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Multimedia show pres. "songs your mother never taught you;" P.S. 122, 150 1st Ave. (E. 9th St.) 212-477-5288 or ps122.org, Thurs.-Tues. at 8:30, $20. FAKESHOP: CAPSULE HOTEL Inspired by a Tokyo hotel room, this combination movie, audio installation & digital image gallery attempts to convey isolation & interconnectivity–the website is pretty disturbing at www.fakeshop.com/capsule_hotel/;
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The New Republic’s Curious Political Puddle; Just as Confused as Tom Daschle; Next Stop: A Federal Holiday on Crazy Horse’s Birthday

Written by Russ Smith on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Granted, Master Peter Beinart‘s place-holder editorship of The New Republic has produced a pale version of the provocative magazine two of his predecessors, Michael Kelly and Andrew Sullivan, oversaw during the 1990s, but it has a herky-jerky quality that’s not altogether boring. The May 21 issue is an apt example: The cover, which shows an
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Rich Sport

Written by Taki on May 22, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Last weekend I had to skip Rufus Albemarle’s wedding in Havana Vieja in favor of a cold boardroom in Geneva. Although an unforgiving foe of Fidel’s and everything he stands for, I was actually looking forward to visiting Havana, if only for the fact that the nearest McDonald’s is 90 miles away. Lord Albemarle is
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