Word: manhattanize
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...YouTube was a haven for amateurs, with its "broadcast yourself" tagline, home movies and lip-synched musical numbers. Now it's playing host to Hollywood professionals. On Friday, Magnolia Pictures is premiering The Princess of Nebraska, the latest film from director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhattan), via streaming video in the recently launched YouTube Screening Room...
...Cheesy! If you're feeling peckish in Midtown Manhattan you might try wandering into the IMB Building's atrium at East 56th Street and Madison Avenue to nosh on a mozzarella tasting menu. Obika looks like a take-out sushi joint, but it's an Italian restaurant chain focused on cheese, specifically its handmade Mozzarella di Bufala Campana. The porcelain white (the yellow mozzarella in your supermarket was made from cow's milk, not buffalo's), slightly briny balls are paired with grilled vegetables and prosciutto. If you just want a sandwich to go, the menu also includes paninis. Look...
...seize on a believer's desire to possess material proof of the divine. In Jerusalem, it is a bountiful trade. The old adage is that if all the splinters of the True Cross were gathered from across Christendom, it would yield a wooden crucifix the size of a Manhattan skyscraper. Even back in the Middle Ages, pilgrims visiting Jerusalem told of hawkers who sold counterfeit bones and relics of saints...
...that you’re out of Cambridge, are you living the glitzy Manhattan life undergraduates dream about? Cristal flowing, guest stars inviting you to their penthouse suites...
Jonathan Corbett, owner of Project Manhattan, where he trains aspiring New York City pickup artists, agrees: "Her friends will never find out that she's 'misbehaved,' so she can ignore the voice in her head that usually tells her, 'Don't sleep with random guys...