June 2010
5 posts
Who Is This City For? →
“For example, on Thursday the fabulously wealthy LeBron James, a Cleveland basketball player, becomes a free agent. Some prominent New Yorkers desperately want him to play here, and they are throwing all sorts of freebies his way as inducements. After all, why should a zillionaire pay his own way? That’s what the less illustrious and the less affluent must do.”
Clyde Haberman
What I Dream About When I Dream About Pizza
I’m a frequent reader of Slice, the best pizza blog out there, and while their posts are usual straight-forward reviews, this recent post actually got me a little misty eyed.
Sure, it’s about Spumoni Gardens, my favorite pizza place, and I’m starving. But the author’s tone showed he understood it as being more than just a restaurant and slice joint, and his words went...
Why New York Times Writers Should Not Write About...
Just stumbled on this article, which highlights the new commutes that are currently being put to the test with the MTAs cutting of various bus routes in the five boroughs (but the continued construction of a new subway…I digress).
At the end of the article, I noticed this nut graf of a corrections notice. It’s like 12 tweets long:
Correction: January 17, 2010 The City Critic...
