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The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
- The West Village is really getting old: the chimney of famous Bedford Street speakeasy Chumley's "separated from the interior wall and collapsed into the bar area." Thankfully, the Department of Buildings promises that demolition is "not being considered at this time." [Curbed]
- The subprime mortgage catastrophe has even hit uber-fancy homes: Palaces from Laguna Beach to Savannah (but, sadly, not Manhattan) will be auctioned off this spring, making for "something of a fire sale in the luxury sector." [Forbes]
- What New York really needs is a green hotel-condo. Luckily, there's one (and it's 61,000 square feet) under construction at 250 Bowery between Prince and Houston. The design firm is "targeting tourists concerned with environmental responsibility as well as aesthetics." Creepy. [Real Deal] - Max Abelson
Giraffes and Communists Collide in Eastern Europe
M. Gloserova
First-time novelist J.M. Ledgard has been a foreign correspondent for The Economist for the last 11 years.
“I’m a giraffe,” Sophia Loren once said. read more »
A Book To Carry You Away— Berendt Does Venice, Loosely
Graziano Arici
John Berendt is a tricky narrator, a spellbinder but not entirely straightforward.
“Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the read more »
A Book To Carry You Away- Berendt Does Venice, Loosely
“Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or read more »
To Distrust of Human Nature, Add Heaping Hatred of Lawyers
Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man , from a screenplay by Al Hayes, based on an original story by J read more »
Bent : Movie of the year? ... Savannah's Dulled in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Spirit BentIs Not Broken
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