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This quibbling, though, misses a crucial point: just as a dollar will buy much more property in, say, Wyoming than it will in Manhattan, so too with New Haven and Cambridge. New Haven has long been considered—correctly—to be one of the most beautiful, cosmopolitan and “happening” cities on the East Coast, if not the country. Cambridge simply can’t measure...
Kentridge comes to Harvard today through the efforts of VES Head Tutor Paul Stopforth, who is also from South Africa and was working at the Market Gallery in Johannesburg when it featured Kentridge’s first solo show. In addition to having work currently displayed in Manhattan, Kentridge is also a visiting artist at Columbia University this fall semester...
...bulk of the ITMFG series is available, with a little sleuthing, at specialized video stores, so read on even if you?re not near Manhattan. (And be sure to read Grady Hendrix?s program notes, each one a supercharged essay on the film in question.) But at a time when most U.S. Chinatown theaters have closed, it?s worth seeing these films on the big screen, with an audience juiced for a communal thrill. That?s the best way to rekindle the grand old days of Hong Kong horror...
...might ask why a man who helped create one of the most successful sitcoms in TV history, who dropped $35 million for his weekend house, a man with a lovely wife, a baby daughter and a garage full of Porsches, would leave his glamorous Manhattan aerie every Friday night to go tell jokes in smoky clubs in Erie, Pa., or West Orange, N.J., to tipsy people whose slightly belligerent attitude is, Make me laugh...
...life, Seinfeld can and does make jokes about everything, except telling jokes. "Ultimately, it's, How good are your jokes?" he says. "It's the only thing that matters." To help explain why, he has arranged for me to meet him at the Museum of Television and Radio in Manhattan, so we can watch some of the comedians who influenced...