Posts Tagged ‘Our Town’

Cecil Fabulous

Written by Our Town on February 6, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Beaton’s New York years revived By Marsha McCreadie One high aesthetic compliment is to call an artist ahead of his time. Yet, the real trick is to be both of your time and ahead of it. Cecil Beaton—photographer, illustrator, set and costume designer, even author—turned that trick, and nicely, too. The fabulous results and even
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New Series Features New York’s Most Macabre

Written by Our Town on February 6, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Our Town, TV, West Side Spirit

By Anam Baig Ronni Thomas, a filmmaker and oddity enthusiast, has created a new web series documenting the darkness, eccentricity and mystery of the uncharted and unimaginable happenings of New York City. Fittingly named The Midnight Archive, these videos boast an eclectic class of characters such as Sue Jeiven, a tattoo artist at East River Tattoo,
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Ground Line Redefines How Women Artists Have Evolved

Written by Our Town on February 6, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film

By Joe Bendik Daniele Marin’s current exhibition, Ground Line, at Noho Gallery explores how women in art and society have evolved over time. By using iconic imagery along with the mundane, Marin recontextualizes these images to create nonlinear narratives. Doing this makes the historical information seem fresh. Marin also uses fabric in the acrylic paintings,
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Best Bets for Super Bowl XLVI

Written by Our Town on February 6, 2012. Posted in Eat & Drink, Lifestyle, Our Town, West Side Spirit

By Andrew Rice Best Super Bowl Party Playwright Irish Pub, 27 W. 35th St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), playwrightirishpubnyc.com. It’d be hard for almost any bar to top the Playwright for square inches of screen space, as this Irish sports bar has over 80 of them in their two-floor establishment. For a pair of Andrew Jacksons,
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Go Light With Torrontes

Written by Our Town on February 6, 2012. Posted in Eat & Drink, Lifestyle, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Argentinean white goes perfect with warm winter By Josh Perilo I left the house on Tuesday to move my car and I wasn’t wearing a coat. Yes, this is the wine column, but I felt that sentence needed to be said. It’s both thrillingly amazing (considering the snow spanking we got last year) and very, very
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East Side Crime Watch

Written by Our Town on February 1, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Crime Watch OTDT, Crime Watch our town, Our Town

Cops Search for Deadly Hit-and-Run Driver Police report that at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, a white SUV was traveling northbound on the FDR Drive near East 84th Street when it struck a vehicle, sending it into two lanes of traffic and hitting a third and fourth vehicle in a nasty pileup. One of
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Waking Up with Charlie Rose—and Some Questions

Written by Our Town on January 25, 2012. Posted in Opinion and Column, Our Town, West Side Spirit

A new addition reminds us that our town is still king of the morning show By Christopher Moore Over many years, Charlie Rose spent a tremendous number of hours in my bedroom. Before discovering the life-altering advantages of the DVR, I often ended my day with Rose on public TV. So his move two weeks ago
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Citiquette: The After-After Party

Written by Jeanne Martinet on January 25, 2012. Posted in Opinion and Column, Our Town, West Side Spirit

The two-for-one philosophy of hosting By Jeanne Martinet As most savvy New York hosts know, when you throw a large cocktail party, you can expect approximately 60 percent of the invitees to attend. Of the 40 percent who don’t come, most have a scheduling conflict or illness and are truly sorry to be missing the affair.
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Protecting Against Telemarketing Schemes and Other Fraud

Written by Our Town on January 25, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Senior citizens are commonly targeted by con artists and other fraud schemers. To help combat this problem, the FBI offers many tips for seniors to protect against telemarketing fraud, Medicare scams and other common schemes. Below is FBI material on senior fraud—to find out more, visit www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud/seniors. Senior citizens are most likely to have a “nest
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East Side Crime Watch

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on January 25, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Crime Watch OTDT, Crime Watch our town, Our Town

Very Sticky Fingers Police from the 19th Precinct arrested a man on burglary charges this week, closing a borough-wide pattern. The man was discovered inside a fast-food donut shop in the early morning, before the store opened, with a screwdriver and flashlight (what the cops classify as burglary tools) in his possession. He supposedly gained
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