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Angelo Po has been reconciling functionality and beauty for more than 100 years, innovating solutions and design through a flow of inspirations, generated by a sincere commitment to sustainability and…
Notes on the late Chino XL
Chino XL has two of my favorite verses of all time. They are both on Sway and Tech’s 1999 compilation This Or That, one on the album’s deep lead single “The Anthem”, and the other on “Three To The Dome” with Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. It was the backpack era, and all my favorite rap was punchlines about how other dudes suck at rapping.
What Makes New Yorkers Look Twice?
If a hawk sits in a sidewalk tree and nobody takes a picture, does it really exist?
Nobody defunded the police: A study
A study of budgets in over 400 American cities over the last 5 years shows that, despite persistent claims by politicians, pundits, and police unions, there was no mass defunding of police. Police departments got the same average cut of the city budget in 2021 as they did in previous years.
MGM Resorts International Hits Sustainability Milestone
By Malik Anderson June 29, 2021 Record hot temperatures in the Pacific Northwest. Strange clouds in Warsaw, Poland. The Earth’s climate keeps surprising its inhabitants with anomalies—and the hotel industry isn’t happy.
Storybook Season: An Interview with Mike Schmidt
Throughout my life, Mike Schmidt, the Hall of Fame third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, who turned seventy-one last week, has been more than a favorite player. He’s been a philosophy, an avatar of the cool determination required to prevail in the face of fear and doubt. This season marks the fortieth anniversary of the greatest campaign of his eighteen-year major-league career, in which he led the Phillies to their first World Series victory. But Schmidt didn’t start out as a star.
The Return of Kathleen Edwards
“ ‘Total Freedom’ will be my fifth album. Part of me loves the idea that I can put out a record during this time and get my music out there but also stay home and be part of people’s confidence rebuild.” “I opened Quitters Coffee in my hometown of Ottawa, in a neighborhood where there really was nothing going on.
Poorer Cities Spend More of Budget on Police, Even Where Crime Is Lower
Breonna Taylor was a tax-paying citizen of Louisville, Kentucky. She paid a five percent income tax on her salary as an emergency medical technician, and a six percent sales tax on most purchases. In return, the city of Louisville provided her with streets, parks, sanitation, and funding for a police department. On March 13, the Louisville Metropolitan PD broke into Taylor’s apartment to serve a “no-knock” warrant on the wrong address.
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Major Media Outlets Can’t Stop Describing Police Violence As ‘Officer Involved’ Incidents Following the murder of George Floyd, The Associated Press issued guidance that reporters should not describe instances where police shot someone with neutral language. It didn't work. By Brandon Soderberg and Andy Friedman She Was Open To Her Child Being Trans. Then The State Separated Them. Is the case of Katee Churchill just the beginning?
The Fog of Rudy
In the middle of September, shortly before the House of Representatives opened its impeachment inquiry against President Trump, I started texting with his personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, to try to arrange a time to get together. I stressed that I wasn’t looking for sound bites; I wanted to talk, in depth, about the whole arc of his career, with the goal of explaining how he wound up at the center of this historic moment.
Talking Baseball, Broadcasting, and “Brockmire” with Hank Azaria
“All my talent is literally contained in my voice box. Right in there. It doesn’t go anywhere else!” “Whether it was the Fonz, Mork, Archie Bunker, Ted Baxter, Howard Cosell—any voice from anywhere . . .” “. . .
Structural Racism and Cannabis: Black Baltimoreans still disproportionately arrested for weed after decriminalization
While decriminalization in Maryland has significantly reduced the number of cannabis-related arrests, data indicate the Baltimoreans still being arrested for cannabis remain almost entirely and disproportionately black. During 2015, 2016 and 2017, Baltimore police arrested 1,448 adults and 66 juveniles for cannabis possession, according to Baltimore Police Department data supplied by the FBI. Of those arrestees, 1,450 were black. That’s 96 percent.
10 Costliest Atlantic Hurricanes in History
Nothing causes dread among linemen and utility managers like an approaching hurricane. Spanning up to 2,000 miles in diameter and winds up to 165 miles per hour. Hurricanes have many ways to wreak havoc on infrastructure: winds, flooding, flying debris and torrential rain. Over the past 20 years we've seen Atlantic hurricanes cause billions of dollars in damage with increasing frequency.
The Summer of Kinky Friedman
“Some of the stuff I’ll be doing tonight I’ve only done a few times on stage,” the country musician, mystery novelist, and former gubernatorial candidate of Texas, Kinky Friedman, warns, with his deadpan, mellow rasp. “So I might screw up. It’s possible. And if I do you’ll know because I usually go, ‘Fuck.’ ” Kinky has been on the road all summer, quietly touring in support of “Circus of Life,” his first new album of original songs in more than forty years.
SEC Broker Conduct Rules
Last week, the SEC issued proposed rules governing broker-dealer and investment advisor conduct. The rules serve as a counterpoint to the fiduciary rules issued by the Department of Labor. The SEC proposal runs over a thousand pages. Although it is not feasible to provide a comprehensive summary of such a wide-ranging promulgation, we outline some high-level concepts below. 1. The SEC and DOL rules are markedly different.
The Imperfect Michelangelo
If Michelangelo had been granted his dying wish, none of the hundred and thirty-three drawings currently hanging in “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, would have been seen by anyone at all. For Michelangelo, sculpture was the supreme form of visual art. Painting placed second, followed by architecture. Michelangelo went to extraordinary lengths to realize perfection in his art.
A Journey in Pictures for Andrew Wyeth on His Centennial Birthday
Andrew Wyeth was a decorated American painter. His honors, which include a Congressional Gold Medal and a National Medal of Arts award, are stored in a showcase in the private office of Mary C. Landa, the curator of the Wyeth collection at the Brandywine River Valley Museum of Art, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and a friend to the artist since 1979. The museum sits in a nineteenth-century converted gristmill a few miles up the river from where Wyeth was born.
Talkin’ Fifty Years of Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde”
In 2016, on the fiftieth anniversary of Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde,” the Country Music Hall of Fame, in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted a birthday celebration. The Hall asked Old Crow Medicine Show, a band whose most popular single “Wagon Wheel” was co-written with Dylan, to play the entirety of “Blonde on Blonde” that night.
Billy Joel Parking Lot
Billy Joel turns sixty-eight today. In early April, I drove to Uniondale, Long Island, to soak up the tailgate-party scene before the inaugural concert at the newly renovated Nassau Coliseum. The celebrated occasion was marked by the return of Billy Joel, Long Island’s home-town hero and its resident bard.
A Walk with Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III, who is currently on tour, began his career as a singer-songwriter quickly, almost fifty-years ago, with help from a motorcycle accident. Not his own, but the one that left the namesake to his song, “Talking New Bob Dylan,” out of commission at the height of his stardom. “Labels were signing up guys with guitars / Out to make millions, looking for stars,” Loudon sings of that time. “It happened that fast,” Loudon recalled, on a recent morning walk through Greenwich Village.
Market Reaction to a Government Shutdown
In our update last month, we noted that the federal government could shut down on April 29 for lack of Congressional funding, a development that might have market consequences. As things stand now, government funding runs out on April 28. If Congress does not pass appropriations legislation to fund the government beyond that date, then on April 29 the government will shut down. An appropriations bill requires 60 affirmative votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.
Will Trump Budget Lead to a Government Shutdown?
Earlier this week, President Trump issued a proposed government budget for FY2018 calling for the largest reduction in domestic program spending since the aftermath of World War II. The White House budget would increase spending on defense by 10%, offsetting that amount by a similar reduction in spending on domestic programs. Because current defense and domestic spending are roughly equal, the budget in effect calls for domestic agencies in the aggregate to reduce spending by the same 10%.
ACA Replacement and Market Reaction
Earlier this week, the Republicans issued their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). As the Republican plan became public, I joined the CNBC Nightly Business Report to discuss the plan and how the markets are likely to react. You may view the segment here.
The Inclusive Humanity of Alice Neel’s Paintings
I grew up in Brooklyn. For a while, on weekends, my father would take me and my little brother into “the city.” My father loved to walk, and he loved foreign films and foreign food. This meant that we saw different areas of Manhattan all the time. We ate sauerkraut in Germantown on the Upper East Side, and bought brisket and bialys on the Lower East Side.
Holiday Dread: Introspection
Holiday Dread: IntrospectionCurrent Mood, In PicturesAndy Friedman is an artist, musician, illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. His work has appeared in New York, The New York Times, Esquire, Playboy, and The Paris Review, among others. He is currently working on a book of essays and drawings. Follow him on Instagram @sundayfriedman.Holiday Dread is The Awl’s series dedicated to the season of joy and other emotions. Previously:
An Evening with D.J. Shadow, in Pictures
Andy Friedman is an artist, illustrator, musician, and cartoonist. He has contributed art to this magazine since 1999 and is currently working on a book of essays and drawings.
Inside Scoop - Golf Digest
Seve Ballesteros took on Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw using a 3-iron from a bunker...and won Many of Seve Ballesteros' opponents will vouch for his incredible ability to invent and execute unorthodox golf shots. Here's my favorite example. Seve was practicing from a greenside bunker before the 1994 U.S. Open at Oakmont when Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw showed up to do the same.
Hall of Fame Caps That Could Have Been
Mike Piazza, the twelve-time All-Star who holds the record for the most home runs hit by a catcher, will be inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame this weekend. He will become only the second inductee to be depicted wearing a New York Mets cap in the portrait on his commemorative plaque.
A Long-Ago Interview with Dave Van Ronk About the Blues
Dave Van Ronk, who was known as the Mayor of MacDougal Street, would have been eighty today. I met the monumental figure of the nineteen-sixties Greenwich Village folk scene in 2000, at Caffe Vivaldi, on Jones Street. It was his usual spot. (Nowadays, Dave Van Ronk Street is right around the corner, though the block wasn’t named in the musician’s honor until 2004, two years after his death.) “If you don’t show up,” Van Ronk said on the telephone, “don’t worry about it.
An Evening with Pokey LaFarge, in Pictures
Andy Friedman is an artist, illustrator, musician, and cartoonist. He has contributed art to this magazine since 1999 and is currently working on a book of essays and drawings.
Five Minutes in an Underground Espresso Bar
I took the subway to Fulton, exited toward John Street, and found Voyager Espresso, a coffee bar with a William Street address that’s hidden in the recesses of the subway below the Financial District. While the barista prepares my order, he is locked in a prideful groove. A passerby merges with the reflection of a customer at the bar behind me.
Yanni’s Early Years
Yanni has a new album coming out! It drops today! It’s called “Sensuous Chill.” As a longtime admirer of the New Age composer’s work, I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve been a follower of his music ever since his early years. And I’m not talking about “Live at The Acropolis,” which climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard charts, in 1994. I was into Yanni before that, when he was still working the local bar scene.
The “Star Wars” Critics Have Spoken
"Almost Unanimous." Credit Illustration by Andy Friedman Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day. Need to stop reading? We’ll send you a reminder. Your reminder will be sent in 2 hoursnowin 4 hourstomorrowin 3 days
Always Lonely: A Visual Celebration of Sinatra
Frank Sinatra will forever be celebrated for his swaggering sense of style, mellifluous singing voice, and intimidating attitude. He was the world’s first modern pop star. But Sinatra’s most important cultural contribution might be what he is known for least: being a trailblazing recording artist. With the release of “In the Wee Small Hours,” in 1955, Sinatra popularized the concept album—a selection of thematically linked songs housed in one package with a unifying cover.
Painting the Gentrification of Prospect Heights
A rapidly ascending high-rise residential tower on the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and Dean Street, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, has robbed me of a kitchen-window view of the Chrysler Building. More than a dozen of these buildings will follow. Some will be taller than this one. A quiet brownstone neighborhood is turning into a busy city of glass and steel. Credit Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day. Need to stop reading?
Slide Show Poetry: The Islanders Move to Brooklyn
I still miss Freddy’s Backroom, the Brooklyn neighborhood dive bar that was razed to make room for the bicycle racks behind the Barclays Center. But as a hockey fan, it’s exciting to have the New York Islanders in my backyard again. I grew up on Long Island, not far from the Nassau Coliseum. I could see its roof from my bedroom window—at least in the winter, when the trees were bare. When I was growing up in the eighties, the Islanders were the home-town heroes.
Slide-Show Poetry: Closing Down the Bungalow
My great-grandparents built a small bungalow colony for themselves and their five sons in the Catskills during the summer of 1949, when the Borscht Belt was booming, and the now abandoned laundromat across from the lake at the end of our block was an all-night diner. We never swam in the lake. My mother cut her toe on something in it one day, in the summer of 1956. My grandfather was a cautious and protective man.
The Loneliness of the Common Player
I’ve been drawing baseball cards ever since I was a kid. I never draw the stars. To immortalize them as art seems redundant. Those cards are already precious works of art. They get preserved in Lucite cases. Some of the cards that I own are quite valuable. Not as valuable as the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner, which sold recently for $1.3 million, but valuable enough that I don’t allow them to come into contact with human skin, or anything but the cases that they live in.
Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics
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After a glancing shot at Republican "pharisees," Clinton explained that, of course, her "very serious" grounding in faith had helped her weather the affair. But she had also relied on the "extended faith family" that came to her aid, "people whom I knew who were literally praying for me in prayer chains, who were prayer warriors for me." It was an elegant example of the Clinton style, a rhetorical maneuver subtle, bold, and banal all at once.
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