March 2009
21 posts
NYT Unveils Global Edition →
Executive Editor Bill Keller mentioned a while back that The New York Times and International Herald Tribune would be conjoined. You can now find the result at global.nytimes.com.
WatchA Sigur Ros Take Away Show in Paris.
One in 8 Million →
Weekly profiles of New Yorkers, told in sound and images (photos are by Pulitzer winner Todd Heisler). I like Ed, the dictaphone doctor.
Raymond Chandler, Dead 50 Years Today →
(Via LAO) Judith Freeman in the LA Weekly:
We remember Chandler for a lot of things. As the guy who put L.A. on the literary map, along with John Fante and Nathanael West, who published their first novels the same year The Big Sleep came out, in 1939—a boffo year for L.A. letters. We remember him as the writer who gave the city a lasting identity. As the person who elevated the lowly mystery to...
Real Talk Episode 6: I Came From the Gutter, and...
‘E.O.S.’ Turns 50 →
Strunk and White’s little book is mostly great, though some of its bêtes noires are a bit outdated.
On the Street: Dapper as Fuck →
Bonus: The New Yorker’s profile of Bill Cunningham.
“In the tall rooms, haggard landladies bicker with shifty tenants. On the wide,...”
– Raymond Chandler, The High Window. Via LAT.
Dreaming of a New Paris →
The results of a nine-month study commissioned by President Nicolas Sarkozy, the proposals aim to transform Paris and its surrounding suburbs into the first sustainable “post-Kyoto city,” a reference to the treaty on climate change, with an expanded Métro system and sprawling new parks.Nice.
The Art of Waiting Tables →
Nice mini-profile of four career waiters, old-school cats who work at the Pacific Dining Car, the Grill on the Alley, Dan Tana’s and one of my favorite restaurants, Musso & Frank Grill. Get a load of Manny:
Manny Felix has a smile as big as an iceberg wedge, wire-rim glasses and a Felix the Cat pin on his lapel. He has been working at Musso & Frank Grill for 37 years, 32 of them...
The Trouble With Cables →
More fun from Abstract City’s Christoph Niemann.
Brown-bag It in Style →
New York mag with three sack lunch ideas.
NYT: 36 Hours in Shanghai →
Don’t miss the slide show.
WatchReal Talk hero Ira Glass on the art of storytelling:
Narrative is basically a machine that’s raising questions and answering them. And obviously, one of the things is, “What’s going to happen next?” is the question. But then the other is the glasses in the pocket, or sort of the clue to the whole puzzle, which you can tell in an instant. Knowing how to manipulate that, how...
Los Angeles Considering Bike-sharing Program →
I’m all for it, although apparently such programs are not without their challenges. Previously on IRB: Vélib.
The Youth →
For INFY: Denby on mumblecore.
The budget for a mumblecore movie may be as low as fifteen hundred dollars. The films are usually shot with a digital camera, in somebody’s apartment, and run about eighty minutes. The filmmaking ensemble gathers around a writer-director-editor figure; they act in the movie, add ideas or lines of dialogue, write music, play or sing onscreen. Few people get paid much,...
Manny-wise →
Got him. Via DeGrootius.
5 Self-publishing Options →
Writing the next great American novel? Here are five places that’ll print it for you. Are magazines more your thing? MagCloud to the rescue.