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Things I miss about NYC: Sound Fix Records

Posted in Free Stuff, New York City, Nightlife, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »

It’s tough to complain about 33 cent beer here in Ho Chi Minh City, but lately my mind’s been wandering back to $5 whiskey shot ‘n’ Pabst specials at Sound Fix Records. Sitting in plastic kindergarten chairs, drinking something that manages to taste worse than Pabst, I long for the cozy respite of Sound Fix’s [...]

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Things I miss about NYC: FREENYC.NET

Posted in Free Stuff, Media, New York City, tagged , , , , , on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When you’re looking for a cheap night after a crap day at work in New York, there’s nothing worse than cracking open a free stuff guide and finding listings like Central Park and Times Square. Lucky for New Yorkers, there’s freenyc.net.
Despite discovering this gem just months before leaving Gotham, I had time to swing by [...]

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Somewhere Beyond Slips on Gold Stilettos

Posted in Media, New York City, tagged , , on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »

My friend and former eurocheapo co-worker Suzanne Russo has just relaunched her blog, Somewhere Beyond, under a new name: Around the World in Gold Stilettos.
Suzanne recently returned from a jaunt in South America, where in addition to penning witty dispatches on sub-Equatorial adventures, she managed to pick up guidebook work on the fly. Not surprising. [...]

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Reading Geoff Dyer at the MET

Posted in Books, Culture, Museums, New York City, Photography on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It turns out the Walker Evans Archive at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is named thusly for a reason. If it were on exhibit, it would be called the Walker Evans Exhibit.
I visited the MET after finishing The Ongoing Moment, Geoff Dyer’s not-quite-comprehensive survey of photography. Dyer writes considerably on Evans, and I [...]

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Green Fairy Muscles onto Cupid’s Turf

Posted in Food & Drink, New York City, Trends on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »

Originally posted February 14th, 2008
 East Village Wine and Liquor decided to ring in Valentine’s Day with a free absinthe tasting. Gothamites could swing by to sample French-made Le Tourment Vert. Critics are split on its less traditional flavor, which subdues the wormwood flavor.
Also today, Marilyn Manson’s Swiss-made and lazily-named absinthe — Mansinthe — was roundly bashed by wormwood cognoscenti. Its olfactory charm [...]

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