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...bridge-and-tunnel." That's the phrase that snooty Manhattanites use to describe people in the four outer boroughs and northern New Jersey. Even if they live in New York City, they call Manhattan "the city...
...antique but resilient notion of Manhattan's glamorous otherness-of a WASP elite as tall, thin and gleaming as Deco skyscrapers, of an oasis of chic, an object of pride and envy for the white ethnics living in Brooklyn and the Bronx and Paramus and points west-has a lot to do with a 10-block patch of midtown real estate called Broadway. That's where the swells dressed up for the opening night of a Gershwin show starring Fred and Adele Astaire. The Woolworth Building, four miles down the street, was the Cathedral of Commerce; the village of legitimate...
When RUSSELL CROWE arrived at a Manhattan criminal court last Friday, he had the remorseful-celebrity look down pat. Funereal black suit and dark sunglasses to convey solemnity and sorrow? Check. Supportive wife (DANIELLE SPENCER) at his side, suggesting family-man stability? Check. Checkbook? Check. Crowe, who hurled a phone at a hotel clerk in June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge...
...picture black. The tiny full moon sits on that border with darkness, watching over the little village of Hernandez bathed in an unearthly light.But these easily-recognizable prints can be found in art galleries around Boston. What is unique at the MFA is context and variety: photographs of Manhattan that Adams took when he visited the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in New York; poignant and funny pictures of run-down Western towns; a crazy photograph of sodium calcite crystals in Adams’s developing tray; a striking portrait of Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox; and, among Adams?...
...Broadway musical “Rent” ruled America: The critical establishment showered it with statuettes, it spawned a hit single with “Seasons of Love,” and legions of “red-state” tourists descended on the isle of Manhattan like a plague of cornfed locusts just to see it.The widespread popularity of the musical was surprising: Not many would have predicted that a gritty depiction of inner-city poverty, drug addiction, and the ravages of AIDS would have broad appeal. (Maybe it had something to do with the show?...