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Still In the Game
by Patrick Jennings 12/18/2002Neighborhood: SoHo
It’s been ten years, but I still keep it on the resume. I would venture to say it’s gotten me every job I’ve had since college, not to mention a book deal and more than a few birds to die for–one of whom is currently on her third Cosmo and showing no signs of slowing [...]
What is This Building?
by Jude Halford 06/13/2002Neighborhood: SoHo
We decided to visit Manhattan and everyone agreed that was a good idea. In the weeks before we left Scotland emails and telephone calls arrived telling us all the places which we absolutely must see, and all the things which we absolutely must do. On arrival we followed instructions and headed down towards the World [...]
The Parakeet Book
by Josh Kramer 02/04/2002Neighborhood: SoHo
This very quiet bird, with whom I am hoping to build a relationship, is called Number Two. I received Number Two and his ex-companion, Number One, as a Valentine’s day present from a woman I used to go with. Her name was Johanna. Johanna used to work in my office–in fact she used to work [...]
Pasta Peculiar
by Richard Nash 01/20/2002Neighborhood: SoHo
The elevator doors open and all I see is pasta drying on cardboard tubes. Multi-colored striped pasta, as if the most important costume from a prep school’s production of Sondheim’s Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat had been passed through some improbably large papershredder. Lasagne sheets from the kitchen of Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch, [...]
Even Love’s a Possibility
by Ted Straif 11/16/2001Neighborhood: SoHo
First dates are about inventing a new language, minute by minute. Smoking is the first level of communication. The realm of intergender semaphore is entirely bottlenecked through nicotine. If there’s no smoking then the glances, brushed hair, knuckle touching can reach comedy. Push the date even further and meet in a restaraunt in Nolita, the [...]
Hemut Lang speaks
by Thomas Beller 05/01/2001Neighborhood: SoHo
Style and Structure With Helmut Lang By Thomas Beller Helmut Lang spent his boyhood years roaming the alps in shorts. He was a country boy until he turned ten, when his father re-married and moved to Vienna, whereupon his step mother proceeded to enforce a strict dress code of suits and ties. Needless to say, [...]
