Word: manhattanization
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...brief moment this past Sunday afternoon, Manhattan became the center of the alternative comix universe when the second annual MOCCA Art Festival opened at SoHo's Puck Building. Publishing planets and the stars that give them life were pulled in from as far as Europe, Australia, Canada and the West Coast. Where once there was a vacuum of interesting comix convergences in New York, this sudden gravitational pull proved irresistible to the medium's satellites. The line was out the door and on to the wet sidewalk. With crowds estimated by organizers at 2500, this year's attendance exceeded last...
...olive oil on my sleeve?--but DiSpirito, 36, is the kind of star chef who is as accustomed to the heat of floodlights as to that of a 30,000-BTU burner. Bedroom-eyed and sporting a dusting of stubble, DiSpirito runs Union Pacific, a paragon of gilded, inventive Manhattan dining. He is a regular on the Food Network and the Today show. Now he's hoping his two vocations will meld like orecchiette and broccoli rabe at his new restaurant, Rocco's, which doubles as the set of a reality-TV show. The Restaurant (NBC, Sundays...
...this may sound a little contrived and a lot exhibitionistic. But then again, a Manhattan restaurant is all about performance. People dress up to see and be seen. Women pretend to laugh at men's jokes. Waiters pretend to care whether you enjoyed your meal. What DiSpirito should be worried about is whether the formula for good TV is the formula for a good restaurant. (Taping began in March--before the restaurant opened in early June--and ended last week, but NBC may decide to order more episodes.) Successful restaurants depend on some measure of reliability. Successful reality shows thrive...
...York City. Settlement talks had failed, and her lawyers' efforts to win an audience with Justice Department officials in Washington had gone nowhere. In the end, the Financial Times reported, Stewart, 61, would not agree to any plea that required jail time. She walked into the downtown Manhattan courtroom to be charged, as her daughter Alexis, 37, waited quietly on a bench in the back. The nine-count indictment alleges that Stewart altered evidence that she traded on inside information about the biotech company ImClone Systems, conspired with her stockbroker to lie to federal officials investigating the trade and defrauded...
...topped the bestseller list before reaching the shelves, even as she was being hailed by many Democrats as her party's best hope of recapturing the presidency. Martha, meanwhile, was stepping down from the presidency of a billion-dollar empire she started from scratch, having been arraigned at Manhattan's federal courthouse on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. She may have been spared the perp walk, but the sight of Martha in such imperfect circumstances was a shock - the only visible touch of the domestic goddess of old being the spotless white umbrella held above her head...