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1.29.2012

Gallery - Luxembourg and Dayan "GRISAILLE"

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol IMAX

Capping off a weeklong movie marathon of the first 3 Mission Impossible movies, went to see MI4, SOOOOO Good!

1.22.2012

Times Square Food Huts

The newest addition to Times Square - food huts - formerly Food Trucks evicted from their lot in Brooklyn have set up shop in semi-permanent kiosks in the middle of Times Square. On this lovely snow day we tried Nuchas. Good empanadas for $2.50 each. Try the short rib and the spicy chicken.

Using the Cheese Plate (one of my 2012 Resolutions)

1.15.2012

Sundried Fig and Parmesan

Maurizio Cattelan: All (The Guggenheim)

Cattelan’s career resists summation by any traditional exhibition format. Many of his early, action-based meditations on failure would be impossible to reconstruct, and his singular, iconic objects function best in isolation. Maurizio Cattelan: All is thus a full-scale admission of the inadvisability of viewing his work in the context of a conventional chronological retrospective. Characteristically, the artist resisted this model, creating instead a site-specific installation that cunningly celebrates its rebelliousness. The exhibition brings together virtually everything the artist has produced since 1989 and presents the works en masse, strung seemingly haphazardly from the oculus of the Guggenheim’s rotunda. Perversely encapsulating Cattelan’s career to date in an overly literal, three-dimensional catalogue raisonné, the installation lampoons the idea of comprehensiveness. The exhibition is an exercise in disrespect: the artist has hung up his work like laundry to dry. Like all of his individual objects, the new installation resonates with multiple interpretive valences. Cattelan has certainly used the motif of suspension before, most notably in the poetically elongated sculpture created from a taxidermied horse, Novecento (20th century, 1997), but here it takes on epic proportions. Hoisted by rope as if on a gallows, the objects explicitly reveal the undertone of death that pervades the artist’s work. In total, the installation looks like a mass execution, and constitutes, for its duration, an overarching, tragic artwork in its own right.

La Nona Ora, 1999

Felix, 2001

Not Afraid of Love, 2000

Check out the Exhibit yourself until January 22, 2012 (for more information see www.guggenheim.com )

1.14.2012

Lemonheads @ Knitting Factory

Evan Dando rocks out with the Lemonheads Wednesday night at the Knitting Factory. Conveniently located across the street from our favorite BBQ spot, Fette Sau, the show sold out but watching and listening at the Bar was free! Great night, great food and great tunes with a Momofuku Milk Bar kicker!

Mission Dolores

Cool Brooklyn Bar with Pinball to boot! Current games include Spiderman and Mars Attack.

Brought to you by the folks behind Smith Street’s Bar Great Harry, Mission Dolores has a relaxing atmosphere where a wide variety of people — from Brooklyn hipsters to Park Slope moms to suits, artists and everyone in between — meet up for craft beers that change out regularly.

check it out at http://missiondoloresbar.com

Liam Finn

Going out on a Monday night? In Brooklyn? To see Liam Finn start off his residency at The Rock Shop? Yes, please! Great Show, lots of Jams! Looking forward to the next 3 Mondays, hope to catch another show. For a detailed review and set list check out Maimed and Tamed.

1.07.2012

Papaya King

Grey's Papaya may be dead and gone, but Papaya King (86th/3rd) lives on!

A Day at the Met

Favorite NYC Restaurant

Nothing beats the weekend Happy Hour at Gyu-Kaku - a little Bimimbap and some Harami Beef, hits thes spot every time!

Making Spiedies!

Anyone who's ever visited Binghamton knows what a Spiedie is. We havent had any for years and my husband got a gallon of authentic Spiedie Marinade (from the one and only Lupo's Char Pit) for Xmas. Tasted just like the real thing! Chicken dinner in our apartment will never be the same again!