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Kyrie Vickers plays with the 1-year-old boy she nannies on the Upper West Side.

COLUMBUS AVENUE VACANCIES P. 6

IDEAS FESTIVAL SPARKS IMAGINATION P. 5

OP-ED: MAKING NYC GREENER P. 7

FRUGAL TRAVELER SETTLES DOWN P. 22

ALSO INSIDE

After an Upper West Side nanny allegedly murdered two young children last year, parents and nannies navigate the fears and tensions that both groups feel

By Amy Eley

Kyrie Vickers, 25, spends weekday aft ernoons playing with the 1-year-old boy she cares for in an Upper West Side apartment. Vickers and the boy play only blocks away from the apartment where a nanny allegedly killed two children last year.

“I think it’s aff ected me more than my employers, to be honest,” Vickers said. “To know that I’m in the same position that woman was in. I cannot imagine

having that state of mind.”Since nanny Yoselyn Ortega allegedly stabbed her two young charges to death on Manhattan’s

Upper West Side last fall, parents throughout the city have been more anxious about childcare.

Nannies Under Suspicion

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The city and state may raise the minimum age to purchase cigarettes. Local residents respond to the initiative.

By Joanna Fantozzi & Allison Volpe

Recently, the City Council addressed the issue of raising the smoking age from 18 to 21. New York State is following suit with Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal’s bill that would make it illegal for those under 21 to buy cigarettes. Th e bill bans suppliers and stores from selling any tobacco products to under-age youths. Each year in New York, according to the Assembly Member, 53,000 people under the

age of 18 become regular smokers. As a former smoker herself, Rosenthal wants to try and nip young nicotine habits in the bud.

To Smoke No More?

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TAPPED INTom Duane Endorses Wymore for City Council

Former New York State Senator Tom Duane announced his endorsement on Monday of Mel Wymore, Democratic candidate for New York City Council, District 6.

“Mel has been an eff ective, courageous and inclusive leader as a community and neighborhood activist,” said Duane. “I am truly excited to see his passion and advocacy amplifi ed for the Upper West Side and all New Yorkers as a member of the City Council.

Wymore said of the endorsement: “I am deeply honored to have the support of Tom Duane: both a true trailblazer and an outstanding elected offi cial who fought, not only for every one of his constituents, but also for all New Yorkers. I will likewise fi ght as hard as I can for an inclusive, compassionate and sustainable city.”

Wymore is an engineer who has served on the Upper West Side’s Community Board 7 for 17 years, serving two terms as chair of the board. He is vying for the seat against six other Democratic candidates; no Republican candidates have

announced their intention to run as yet. Th e seat will be vacated when current City Council Member Gale Brewer ends her current term due to term limits.

Community Calendar

Community Board 7 Preservation Committee meeting, Th ursday, May 9, 6:30 p.m., Community Board offi ce, 250 West 87th St.

Community Board 7 Housing Committee meeting, Monday, May 13, 6:30 p.m., Community Board offi ce, 250 West 87th St.

Community Education Council District 3 Overcrowding/Space Utilization Committee meeting, Mon. May 13, 5:30-7 p.m., topic is proposed DOE sale and demolition of P.S. 199, P.S. 191. Location: P.S. 191, 210 W. 61st St.

Community Education Council District 3 Calendar Meeting, Wed., May 15, 6:30 p.m., middle school choice and high school admission processes, P.S. 191 Auditorium, 210 W. 61st St.

Photos by Andrew Schwartz A member of the Comparsa de Chinelos de Cuautla Morelos Mexico waves a fl ag while marching in the annual Cinco de Mayo Parade along Central Park West on the Upper West Side.

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By Jerry Danzig

Air LiftIn the evening of Th ursday, April 4, a

20-year-old woman went to check out in a

chain grocery store on Broadway. She then discovered that an unknown perpetrator had taken her laptop from her purse when she had left it unattended in her shopping cart. Th e computer, an Apple MacBook Air, lacked any tracking soft ware and was valued at $1,800.

CRIME WATCH

WEAK STRONG BOXIn the afternoon of Tuesday, April 24, a 74-year-old man discovered that

his hoard of cash was missing from his residence on W. 65th St. He had kept the money locked in a metal box in a wall behind the closet. He told police that only he held the key to the box. The only other person with an apartment key was the woman with whom he had shared the apartment

for fi ve years. The man said that he alone knew of the money and its secret location, and the last time he checked it was about a year before. No

arrests have been made. The amount stolen was $620,000 in Euros and $400,000 in U.S. cash. Ouch!

Library LootedAt around noon on Monday, April 8, an

unknown perpetrator walked into an open room in a public library on Amsterdam Avenue and removed two laptop computers without permission. Video footage is available for review. LoJack theft -recovery soft ware was installed on the laptops. Th e value of the laptops stolen totals $4,000.

No AccountIn the evening of Tuesday, April 24,

a 32-year-old male living on W. 75th St. reported that when he had his credit checked recently, he discovered that an unknown person had opened a cell phone account using his personal information. $5,000 in merchandise had been charged to the fraudulent account. Th e victim fi led a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

Repsol RemovedIn the evening of Friday, April 26, a 37-year-

old male loaned his motorcycle to a friend. When the motorcycle owner returned the following morning to the parking spot on Riverside Boulevard where his friend had returned the cycle, he found the bike missing. Police were unable to locate the missing motorcycle. Th e stolen motorcycle was a black

2005 Honda CBR 1000 Repsol Edition valued at $12,000.

Honda HeistA 35-year-old man reported that early in

the morning of Saturday, April 27, he was in the lobby of his building on W. 70th St. when he heard a loud noise. When he walked to the door to check out the cause of the disturbance, he observed unknown perpetrators loading a motorcycle into a black minivan. Th e thieves took off in the van heading southbound on Columbus Avenue. Th e witness reported that the minivan had New Jersey plates and saw the partial license number C95. Th e stolen motorcycle was a white 2012 Honda with Pennsylvania plates, worth $6,000.

Kawasaki KleptoAt 8 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, April

30, a 32-year-old man parked his motorcycle on W. 63rd St. and went to work. When he returned at 1 p.m., his cycle was missing. Th e victim stated that no one else had keys to the vehicle. Th ere were no cameras at the location, and a police canvas of the area failed to turn up the stolen cycle. A check with parking authorities revealed that the bike had not been towed or relocated. Th e chopper was a silver 2005 Kawasaki 636 with New York plates, valued at $3,000.


STRAUS MEDIA MANHATTAN

While support for nannies has been scarce, the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan is looking to change that.

“Th e world is watching,” said Valerie Gerstein, a mother of two who runs a blog for families on the Upper West Side. “If something’s going to happen, it should be in this community.”

Ortega worked for Kevin and Marina Krim for two and a half years as a nanny, watching their three children, Lucia, Nessie and Leo. On Oct, 25, Marina came home to the family’s apartment at 57 W. 75th St. with Nessie to fi nd her other two children dead and Ortega allegedly trying to commit suicide. Ortega survived and has since been charged with murdering the two children. She is awaiting her court hearing, scheduled for May 6.

Th e Jewish Community Center (JCC) is putting together a series of nanny support programs to help nannies with stresses related to the murders, their jobs and personal lives.

“As a community center, we realized we needed to create support programs for the caregivers,” Erica Werber said, the senior director of public relations at the JCC. “And make sure they know that they have access to resources if they ever needed help.”

Th e fi rst class is a “Caregiver Chat” with Jean Schreiber, an early childhood educational consultant. Th e class is open for any nanny and is meant to serve as a support group where caregivers can discuss various aspects of the job, including ways to communicate with employers, positive discipline for children and more.

Schreiber oversees several programs at the JCC for parents, but aft er the Krim murders she recognized the need for nanny support.

“Caregivers are a huge part of the community here,” she said. “We are focused on them as people.”

Th e center is also planning to host Caregiver Appreciation Days and a caregiver brunch in the coming months.

For nannies like Kyrie Vickers, these programs come as a welcome relief. In the months since the murders, Vickers feels like parents have been scrutinizing nannies.

Jenna Crandall, a mother of three, agrees that nannies have been watched more closely. Crandall encourages other mothers to use hidden nanny cameras in the home and has asked friends to watch how her nanny interacts with Crandall’s kids at the park.

“She didn’t know they were my friends but they would look out and watch,” Crandall said. “It makes you second guess your own nanny and what could happen.”

One Upper East Side mother, who asked her name be withheld, decided to put her child in daycare rather and leave her alone at home with a nanny. “I interviewed nannies but never felt comfortable,” she said.

Nanny agencies throughout the city have been helping soothe parents’ anxieties since the Krim murders. Joan Friedman, co-owner of A Choice Nanny, remembers one mother in particular who expressed nervousness over the decision to hire a nanny.

“She said, “I know this is a silly question, but in light of the tragedy, I just want to hear again what you do,”” said Friedman.

Vanessa Wauchope, founder and president of nanny agency Sensible Sitters, oversees one family that makes home visits to their nanny routinely to maintain a pulse on her personal life.

“Th ey really want to know what’s going on,” said Wauchope. “In a situation where someone is being brought into your home, parents want to go that extra mile.”

For Blake Levine, this meant running her own background checks through Internet soft ware on nanny applicants for her two-year-old daughter.

“Some people do hire background investigators,” she said. “Th ere’s no way to prevent what happened to the Krim family other than trying to fi nd the best people. You hope that will suffi ce.”

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“From a personal standpoint I started smoking when I was 17 and I smoked for almost 20 years,” said Rosenthal. “I went through the whole get addicted when you’re younger thing. You also don’t realize how badly you feel until you stop smoking for awhile, its so hard to quit.”

We took to the streets on the Upper East Side to fi nd out what local residents think of the push to keep cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers.

Neal Bloom, 42, Tribeca“I’m completely for it. I have two kids of my own, and I’d be really

disappointed if either of them became smokers. It is just so terrible for your health, and I don’t think young people fully understand that. So I think raising the age would be very helpful.”

Robert Ferrara, 20, Upper West Side“I think it’s ridiculous. I have every right to be able to smoke a pack of

cigarettes. It’s ridiculous enough that the drinking age is 21. People my age are allowed to get married and fi ght in wars, yet we can’t drink and shouldn’t be able to smoke? It doesn’t make sense.”

Erin Earey, 28, East Village“I mean, if kids really want to smoke, they’re going to fi nd a way to get

their hands on cigarettes regardless. I’d be for it though. My brother has been smoking since he was 14, and I really wish he didn’t. It does worry me.”

Jenny Son, 24, Lower East Side“I’m all for it. Too many young people smoke and are destroying their

health so early. I don’t think 18 year olds realize what a serious decision they’re making when smoking. Th ree years may not seem like a lot of time, but I think a college freshman is more susceptible to start smoking than someone who is about to graduate.”

Joseph Awgul, 35, Upper East Side“I honestly don’t care either way. I think most kids smoke when they’re

a teenager in high school or in college, and then just stop when they get older. I don’t see it as a pressing issue.”

Brandon Lall, 18, Upper East Side, smoker“Personally, I agree with it. Cigarettes are bad, even though I’m sitting

here smoking one. I think it’s a good move.”

Mohammad S., 18, Upper East Side, smoker“I think it’s dumb and they shouldn’t do it. Th e mayor and

assemblymen have bigger problems to deal with than this.”

Justine Marie, 24, Lower East Side, smoker“It’s kind of a good thing. Kids are more at to start smoking and keep

smoking if they start at a younger age. I was 16. If you make it harder or more expensive I’m sure it will deter them.”

Chris J., 35, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, smoker“I don’t think anybody should smoke. So I’d be for it.”

Ashley Paluszek, 20, Chelsea, occasional smoker“I don’t consider myself a smoker, but I do it occasionally to relax. I’d

be really angry if I wasn’t able to buy a pack of cigarettes suddenly. It would be irritating and either way, I’ll be able to fi nd another way to get cigarettes, and so would other people.”

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The New Museum’s biennial Ideas festival presents hundreds of concepts for productive change in the City

By Alissa Fleck

This past weekend was alive with innovation as Ideas City — a multi-day festival of presentations, exhibitions, workshops and panels which

aims to take New Yorkers’ ideas about improving the City, and urban living in general, to the people to whom these ideas matter most — hit the streets.

Four days of demonstrations and performances, founded by the New Museum in the Bowery under this year’s theme of “untapped capital,” included ways to bring art and green space to public places, more effi cient and environmentally friendly versions of items we already use on a regular basis and far more.

According to the event’s offi cial website, Ideas City, founded in 2011, in addition to facilitating conferences and a massive outdoors street festival around the Bowery neighborhood, incorporates more than one hundred independent projects and public events that are “forums for exchanging

ideas, proposing solutions, and accelerating creativity.”

Th e New Museum’s director Lisa Phillips explained: “As an institution dedicated to new art and new ideas, the New Museum strongly believes that the cultural community is essential to the vitality of the future city.”

“We also believe that the cultural sphere is still a relatively untapped source of enormously powerful creative capital,” she added, “Especially in its potential to stimulate economic development and foster greater innovation in other fi elds.”

Th e Ideas City StreetFest, a family-friendly aff air, included such highlights as a “sweat your own battery” lodge; more effi cient means of turning urban landscapes into playgrounds; blueprints for the City’s “Lowline” (an underground park in development); mobile libraries and art studios and far more.

Meanwhile, the conference component focused on places untapped capital can be used in urban development, including “ad hoc strategies,” “waste,” “play” and “youth.”

While Ideas City has come and gone for now, affi liated global conferences continue to promote ideas for productive urban change worldwide and New Yorkers, continually on the very cusp of major urban rejuvenation, have had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with hundreds of projects underway in the City with an eye toward the future.

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A reader asks, what’s up with the empty storefronts on Columbus Avenue?

By Joanna Fantozzi

Th e Upper West Side is known as the land of desirable commercial real estate. In fact, Barbara Adler, from the Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District, claims that nearly 100 percent of the storefronts in her area of jurisdiction are occupied.

So what is up with the storefronts scattered throughout the Upper West Side that have been shuttered and bordered up for years? A reader pointed out some of them to us: Georgia’s Café on 89th and Broadway, which shut its doors almost two years ago; the now-closed Uptown Birds, on Amsterdam between 85th and 86th, which had its last Yelp review in 2009. And one of the major eyesores of the neighborhood: 543 Columbus Avenue - a boarded up, graffi ti-covered storefront that has been vacant for decades.

According to business and real estate experts, these storefronts are anomalies.

“Every empty store is a diff erent story,” said Rafe Evans, senior vice president for Walker Molloy brokerage company, who blames the landlords in many cases, more so than the market. “Th ere are tenants for these spaces if the landlords are reasonable or motivated. Th ere’s no such thing as a space on

the West Side that would not be able to fi nd a good fi t.” We investigated some of the specifi c spots to try and fi nd out

why they’ve sat empty.2418 Broadway between 89th and 90th St. - Th is seemingly

- deserted storefront used to be Georgia’s Café - a fairly controversial place when it was open. “Frequently the issues of Georgia’s had come before the community board,” said Andrew Albert, a representative from the West Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. “[Th e owner] put in an air conditioning unit which bothered people next door, and had other various violations.” According to Rafe Evans, there was also a fi re in the building, and the landlord decided not to re-open the commercial space because they were under-insured. In December however, the building was sold to Manhattan-based real estate owners Albert and Robert Gilardian of the Gilar Group for $47 million. A new restaurant will be opening soon at the location.

522 Amsterdam Avenue between 85th and 86th St. - What used to be Uptown Birds is now completely empty. According to the Department of Buildings, a partial stop-work order has been in place for the building since last year for unsafe work conditions, but the issue was resolved. Th e real story, according to Evans, who has worked on the building, the place will not sell because the owner refuses to either remove the scaff olding from the building, or to lower the price based on that undesirable part of the building. As a result, he said, the landlord is stuck between a rock and a “for rent” sign, and has not seen any interest in the building.

543 Columbus Avenue and 86th St. - Th is space has been

an empty shell for years, and according to Rafe Evans, the reason why is a bit of a mystery. He said that the storefront is allegedly owned by the family who operates Th ree Star Coff ee Shop next door. Occasionally, he said, a “For Rent” sign will go up in the window, but it will soon be taken down, which is a shame, said Rafe, because the area is prime real estate. According to the Department of Buildings database, the building is owned by Columbus West LLC, and a Stop Work Order has existed on the property since 2008 for structural instability of the building.

“It’s a matter of weird personalities very oft en,” said Evans. “How some of these people get to control millions of dollars of assets is beyond me.”

Vacancy on Columbus AvenueWhat’s Up With That?

An empty storefront on Columbus Avenue.


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There are exciting new ways that NYC is becoming more

environmentally friendly - and still more we can all do.

By Dan Garodnick

In my tenure in the City Council, I have worked hard to push the envelope on ways to protect the environment — from authoring the City’s Green Energy Code, to requiring new commercial buildings to have sensors to turn out lights, to requiring better access to recycling in residential buildings.

And I am pleased to report some big progress on recycling, just from last week. It shouldn’t surprise you to learn this, but New York City has consistently had notoriously low

recycling rates. It’s my hope that that is about to change.Last week, Mayor Bloomberg announced an important new recycling initiative which will save

the City $600,000 each year, and lead to more than 50,000 tons of waste diverted from landfi lls. Th e best estimate is that we’ll raise our recycling rate from our current 15 percent to 30 percent by the year 2017.

Th e biggest change is that New Yorkers can now recycle hard plastics, including toys, shampoo bottles, coff ee cups, food containers and hangers. You can fi nd a full list of what you can and cannot recycle on the Department of Sanitation’s website. Quick tip: your old CDs and hummus containers are okay, but don’t recycle old cassettes or toothpaste tubes!

Don’t know what day to put out your recyclables? You can check refuse and recycling collection dates on nyc.gov.

Th is will not only save the City money and divert items from our landfi lls, but it’s also very important for our environment. According to the Department of Sanitation, for every ton of paper we recycle, we save four metric tons of carbon equivalent, which is the same as taking one car off the road for eight months. Even better, by recycling metal items such as cans and tinfoil, we save the equivalent of fi ve metric tons of carbon for every ton of material, which is the same as taking one car off the road for an entire year.

Of note, the City’s pilot composting program in public schools also cut the amount of garbage those schools sent to landfi lls by up to 38 percent. Did you know you can bring your compost to some greenmarkets? You can fi nd participating locations on GrowNYC’s website, grownyc.org.

How else can you prevent greenhouse gas emissions?• Did you know home solar panels can pay for themselves in six years? My offi ce prepared a

factsheet with incentives available if you adopt solar panels. And, if you have questions about installing solar panels on your roof, visit the Department of Building’s FAQ page.

• Switching to compact fl uorescent light bulbs, or CFLs, will save you energy and money. In fact, you could save over $100 over the bulb’s lifetime. And of course, be sure to recycle old CFLs.

• Another tip to save money and energy: unplug home electronics when they aren’t in use. Seventy-fi ve percent of electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while they are plugged in but turned off . By using a power strip you can save up to $200 each year off your energy bill.

Better recycling in residential developmentsStarting next year, new apartment developments will need to set aside space for recycling. I

authored a piece of legislation which I hope will change New Yorkers’ recycling habits by making recycling as convenient as possible.

A greener East MidtownAs we consider the Mayor’s proposed rezoning of East Midtown, I fi rmly believe that any new

buildings that arise from this rezoning should be held to the highest environmental standards. In New York, it is our buildings that are the biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions (in fact, they account for 75 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions) and we need to be responsible stewards to future New Yorkers. For the fi rst time ever, the Department of City Planning has included a sustainability requirement in a proposed rezoning resolution. Buildings that seek increased density under this rezoning would need to outperform the New York City Energy Conservation Code by at least 15%. Th is is a very good jumping off point for conversations about how the City can incentivize green design.

Dan Garodnick is a City Council Member representing the Upper East Side.

City Getting Greener


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Madison Square EatsMadison Square Park, 23rd St. and Madison Avenue, madisonsquarepark.org, 11 a.m, varied pricing, All of May.

Madison Square Eats is back, and it’s here for the entire month of May. This pop-up market has 30 vendors from revered eateries all over the city. ASIADOG, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Mexicue, and Momofuku Milk Bar are all participating. After work, grab your friends and treat yourselves to a lively and fl avorful dining experience.

FREE: Astronomy NightIntrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Pier 86, intrepidmuseum.org, 7:30 p.m.If you consider yourself a lover of constellations and observing the far reaches of our galaxy, don’t miss out on celebrating Astronomy Day. Get an up-close view of the stars through 8 diff erent telescopes, as well as learn about the names, history, and mythology of constellations. RSVP at [email protected].

Crawfi sh for Cancer79th Street Boat Basin Café, West 79th St., crawfi shforcancer.org, 2 p.m., $95-110.Catch something that doesn’t happen often in NYC- a Louisiana-style boil of crawfi sh. However, you wont be here just to gorge on crustaceans, this is a fundraiser that benefi ts the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Your ticket buys you unlimited crawfi sh, sausage, corn and potatoes, plus beer, wine and cocktails. This is all set to a live soundtrack, including a cover band.

FREE: Bike MonthMultiple locations, bikenyc.org.We bet you didn’t know it was Bike Month, huh? Join this celebration that hopes to make NYC more cycle-friendly than it already is. Multiple events will be occurring, including CycloFemme’s yearly bike ride today, which will travel all over Manhattan. Other events include a ride-in movie, and a 2nd avenue commuter bike train.

Ophira EisenbergStrand Book Store, 828 Broadway, strandbooks.com, 7 p.m., $15. Ophira Eisenberg is a comedian and the host of the weekly game show “Ask Me Another” on NPR. She will be reading from her new memoir Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, which is a compilation of tales about the hilarious trials and tribulations she has faced in her search for love. Her reading will be followed by an After Hours version of her game show.

FREE: Word for Word: Wendy WilliamsBryant Park Reading Room, 41 West 40th St., bryantpark.org, 12:30 p.m.The New York Times bestselling author and talk show host is ready to answer your most pressing and personal relationship questions. She will also be speaking about her latest book, Ask Wendy, which is a collection of boldly honest words of advice taken from the popular segment on her show. You will defi nitely leave feeling enlightened and ready to make a change.

FREE: Richard Misrach “On the Beach 2.0”Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th St., thepacegallery.com, 10 a.m.Richard Misrach fi rst introduced his “On the Beach” series 9 years ago, now digital technology has enabled him to capture movement and to freeze the motion of water in a completely new way. These remarkable photos document the sea’s changes in color and energy, as well as humans entering and aff ecting the ocean while being dwarfed in the vast landscape.

Spring For Music

Carnegie Hall, 154 West 57th St., carnegiehall.org, 7:30 p.m., $25.The spring for Music festival is in it’s third and unfortunately, fi nal year. The purpose of the festival is to allow music-lovers to hear world-class music at aff ordable prices, and for orchestras to showcase their artistic philosophies. On this particular night, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be performing all four of Ives’s numbered symphonies.

Annual Identifi cation DayAmerican Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, amnh.org, 12 p.m., free-$19.Do you have a young aspiring archeologist in your home? If so, today you can bring all of the shells, feathers, and bones that they have been collecting to the Museum of Natural History. Museum scientists will attempt to identify each of your little one’s treasures. In conjunction with The World’s Largest Dinosaurs exhibit, the collection’s most massive artifacts and specimens will be on display.

FREE: A Closer Look for KidsMuseum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd St., moma.org, 10 a.m.This activity is a tour of the MoMA’s permanent collections and temporary exhibits, for kids ages 5 to 10. They- as well as mom and dad- are encouraged to voice their opinion on what they like and dislike. This tour will help them begin to develop an appreciation for art, which could become an important presence in their lives and futures.

FREE: The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop ArtAcquavella Galleries, 18 East 79th St., acquavellagalleries.com, 10 a.m.This exhibit features Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Oldenburg, with a focus on the development of Pop Art in the U.S. Still Life is also illuminated, having been used in some of Pop Art’s most innovative expressions. Artists viewed it as a vital vehicle of expression in displaying themes of contemporary life in a post-war consumerist society. Get in touch with these seemingly simple images that hold complex meaning.

Wayne BradyB.B King Blues Club & Grill, 237 West 42nd St., bbkingblues.com, 9:30 p.m., $40-45.You may know Wayne Brady from the famed improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? or as the host of the recent revival of Let’s Make a Deal. In this show, Brady creates a spectacular and extremely entertaining performance all on his own. He engages the audience by incorporating their suggestions or bringing them onstage as props. He may even treat you with a vocal performance to show off his legitimate singing chops.

FREE: FREE: Small Business ExpoPier 94, 711 12th Avenue, thesmallbusinessexpo.com, 10 a.m.This is the largest and most anticipated national business networking event, trade show, and conference for business owners. Learn about products and services that will help your business grow, as well as attend cutting edge workshops and seminars that will further your education. Most importantly, partake in speed networking and develop connections that could pan out to be extremely valuable.

Broadway Sessions with Ben CameronLaurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Café, 407 West 42nd St., 11 p.m., $5 plus $15 minimum.When the curtain falls on Broadway, don’t end your night just yet. This après-theatre variety show is hosted by Ben Cameron, of Wicked, Aida, and Footloose fame. Every week a new Broadway star performs and bares their soul. If you’re revved up and in the mood to perform, the show then morphs into an open-mike show-tune night. Don’t be intimidated, we’re sure your rendition of “Defying Gravity” is spectacular.

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Some residents claim the newly installed CitiBike racks create hazards and hassle for their neighborhoods

By Helaina Hovitz

Last week, 330 CitiBike stations were installed in Manhattan and Brooklyn, garnering a reaction from most Manhattanites that can essentially be boiled down to this:

not on my block.Or, at least, not where it’s currently installed. Th e CitiBike program, also called

Bike Share, will place bike rental stations throughout parts of the city, allowing riders to pick up a bike at one location and drop it off at any other CitiBike spot. Sponsored and run by CitiBank, the program is ultimately under the purview of the Department of Transportation (DOT). (See sidebar.)

On Th ursday, May 2nd, Community Board 2 held a meeting at P.S. 41 to give West Village residents a chance to voice their concerns about the Bike Share program, but it wasn’t just West Villagers who showed up to gripe. People from all over the city came to speak their peace about the program — but some of it wasn’t so peaceful.

Chair David Gruber said that the board received 160 calls and emails, 70 percent of which were negative comments.

“Th e DOT chose not to come to this meeting, we don’t know why,” he said.

“People are upset about the size and volume, and once we saw it in place, we realized red dots on a map aren’t the same as something actually being on a street and installed,” Gruber said of the major complaints about Bike Share.

While most people in attendance said that while they actually weren’t “against” the program, they weren’t happy with the way it

was being implemented.“I’m shocked that this showed up on my

block. Th e magnitude of it and the lack of notice provided to residents by DOT is unconscionable. Th ey’re too big and too clunky on residential streets, and the community was not properly informed,” said West Village resident Lisa Cannistraci, who spoke for many when she added that “they obstruct building entranceways,” a problem that will worsen when the stations are fi lled with an average of 40 bikes each at the end of the month.

While many in attendance weren’t opposed to the bikes or the bike program, they were “opposed to the way that the city handled placing the bike racks around the city — mainly, in front of their entranceways.”

Th e bike racks on Barrow Street, for example, are located directly in front of residential buildings with 170 units. Residents claim that elderly people can’t get to their Access a Ride busses, and that ambulances can’t access the building, either.

“Th at means elderly and children will have to navigate around the bikes to get a cab or Access A Ride. We’re not opposed to the rack, but it needs to be moved, and we have alternative locations in mind,” said Cannistraci. “Th ese bike stations located on historic landmarked blocks are a travesty. Th ey need to be moved to more commercial locations, perhaps in front of the Citibanks, since this is their project.

West Village resident Charlie Decker, 69, wasn’t just concerned about the rack placement, though; he thinks that allowing inexperienced riders to hop on bikes whenever they feel like it, especially aft er they’ve had a few drinks, is a recipe for disaster.

“It’s dangerous to promote neophytes grabbing a bike in New York, especially tourists. Are you going to wait until 10 people are slaughtered to see that? Inexperienced bikers are going to get hurt riding around New York City,” he said.

Bikes lined the fence outside, and pro

Citi Bikers with signs lined themselves up in front of the school’s entrance, eagerly awaiting press.

Hilda Cohen, who works in the West Village and lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, said that those showing up to protest on Th ursday were most likely absent at meetings held to discuss the plans.

“We’ve been involved since 2011, and we’ve been here every step of the way. We’re excited,” said Cohen. “I’ve never experienced a more inclusive community process than the one they did with Bike Share.

Jane Brown, who lives on West 4th between 7th Ave South and W. 10th, said that sanitation trucks haven’t been able to get through the racks, and piles of trash and water have been attracting mice.

“Th ere’s no way for them to clean. It’s a health hazard. Someone’s going to get hit by a fi re truck this summer pulling out,” Brown said. “If they’re benefi ting and making money off of it, why doesn’t Citibank but them in front of their branches? Let them see the trash,

the water, and the mice.“Th e DOT did not respond to specifi c

questions regarding community members’ concerns about safety of riders, garbage truck and emergency vehicle access. A spokesman said that CitiBike in conjunction with DOT held 400 meetings with community boards to determine the best locations for the racks, and also consulted 65,000 online requests and comments.

Not All Happy About Sharing with Bike Share

Hilda Cohen and fellow probike share supporter demon-

strate outside the meeting.


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A Celebration of Community

DEWING THINGS BETTER

Practices we observe for Earth Day and Mother’s Day are good for society - at a micro and macro level

By Bette Dewing

About Mother’s Day coming up, and Earth Day just observed - let neither be one day of remembering in a year of forgetting. Th at goes for

upcoming Memorial and Father’s Days too. As this anti-ageism militant says, the more birthdays you have, the more they deserve celebration, with help to make the celebrant’s everydays better. To paraphrase Ira Gershwin’s classic lyric, the road needn’t get rougher and lonelier and tougher.

About Earth Day, well, fi ghting everyday health perils got short shrift when only 22 of the many thousands of apartment house dwellers whose health is aff ected showed up at the CIVITAS forum on the Upper East Side’s super-dirty air problem. Th e focus was on one major, but little publicized pollutant, the burning of number 4 and 6 boiler oil by most buildings because it is cheapest. Yup, fortunes are spent on new lobbies but converting to cleaner oil or natural gas heat remains on the proverbial back burner until the new law makes it mandatory by 2015. I was truly troubled by the meeting’s low attendance with so much at stake and with such expert information off ered on how best to convert and even cooperate with nearby buildings for more reasonably priced number 2 oil or natural gas. And so I wrote to CIVITAS executive director, Hunter F. Armstrong, “I’ll bet if the meeting notice had warned how number 4 and 6 oil damaged and aged complexions and skin tone. rather than respiratory and cardiovascular systems, there might have been standing room only.” He agreed that “a diff erent marketing approach

was needed.” Til the revolution, let those concerned with the very real damage these dirty oils infl ict on the community’s lungs and hearts contact your local elected offi cials and also Hunter Armstrong at 212-996-0745.

Incidentally, stressing appearance improvement would help in the war against smoking. Skin tone does indeed improve aft er stopping. And when awful behavior won’t stop alcohol abuse and other drug use, maybe promise of improved appearance will.

If only appearance didn’t matter so much. Or at all, if ever there were something to overcome.

About Mother’s Day, again I’m strongly recommending Kate Stone Lombardi’s book, Th e Mama’s Boy Myth. Of course, it’s important for mothers of sons, but even more for those social policy-makers who still excuse sons’ non-involvement with families of origin, excusing it as typical male behavior, not a cultural thing that needs to be challenged. And the Times never reviewed what has been called “a groundbreaking investigative look at the benefi ts of rejecting the ‘mama’s boy’ myth.”

Let’s celebrate those adult sons who stay vitally connected to their mothers and fathers and other elder kindred like JaRon Eames, noted jazz vocalist and music historian, who has requested a copy of “My Mother’s Eyes.” Willie Nelson has a wonderful rendition.

And so deserving of support is Th e Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir Spring Concert at Church of the Heavenly Rest (90th and Fift h Avenue) on May 18 at 4 p.m. Th is 26 year-old group founded and directed by James Backmon also tutors and mentors the young singers. I so hope they again perform my son Jeff ’s song, “Happy Birthday to a Little Girl” about a repentant absentee daddy who longs to get back into the life of his now 6 year-old daughter. Th is message needs to go viral and mainstream. So does the outing of absent-without-just-cause family members!

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More & More Antiques

off ers surprisingly charming

fi nds at low prices

By Laura Shanahan

Saints preserve us! Specifi cally, miniaturized versions of saints that appear to be hand-carved of an especially soothing-green translucent jade, (but are in

fact “plastique”), accented with metallic gold touches. Find these approximately two-inch high Peruvian religious and cultural totems at More & More Antiques, at 378 Amsterdam Ave., corner of 78th, where they sell for the equally diminutive price of $2.50 per.

Um, contemporary plastic $2.50 items – no matter how charming and unique – at an antiques shop? Yes, indeed. More & More is an antiques store like no other. Sure, there is the $2,600 set of fi ne Royal Crown Derby vintage china in a discontinued Old Japan Imari pattern, (distinctive in its fl owy-fl oral design of cobalt, metallic gold and a carnelian color) – but there are also loads of absolutely lovely and enchanting contemporary, (albeit oft en with an antique-y twist), items that are perfect to give as gift s for, say, $10 and less – sometimes way less.

“I try to mix it up so there’s something for everyone,” say owner Steve Mohr, whose store has been on this block for a total of 26 years (there was a prior location on this very same street).

I rarely shop while I go shopping around for y’all, but at these prices – and this level of enchantment – I purchased no fewer than fi ve items, totaling a measly $17 or so: three saints, (you don’t have to be religious – or Catholic – to love these; oh, did I mention they glow in the dark?), and two F.G. & Co. sparkly die-cut gift tags.

Ah, yes, the gift tags: You are a more giving person than I am if you can actually affi x these beauties by their satin-ribbon ties to a gift for someone. I’m keeping the ones I bought for myself, I confi ded to another shopper. “It’s nice to look at pretty things,” she agreed.

F.G. & Co. has several series of tags – oh, we know they’re gift tags, because they have the “To” and “From” designations. Th e series includes Ballet Fairies and Luxury Ladies, with each card faithfully replicating antique illustrations, predominantly pretty and pink and dainty beyond words. Gilding the lily, each is also hand-glittered, adding exquisite detailing and patterns. All this for just $3 to $6.50 per. You might wish to do what I plan for one of the larger ones (over 7-inches long) – and use it as a book mark.

More pretty stuff , again in an unusual context: Th e deck of playing cards, each imprinted with a diff erent painting by Gustav Klimt, the 19th century Austrian artist best known for Th e Kiss, a gorgeously elaborate and sensual work; $10.

Going from the sublime to the sublimely silly, consider the tins of peppermint Atonemints (“for each of your sins”), Meshuga Mints (“crazy strong”) and Enchantmints (“curiouser and curiouser”). Appropriate full-color illustrations on the lids show angels versus a blue sky for the fi rst; a Chagall-like Fiddler on the Roof theme on the second, and an eerie Alice in Wonderland-type scenario on the third; $3.25 per. We so have to revisit here before Christmas and Chanukah – can you picture better stocking stuff ers and token gift s than these or, for that matter, virtually all of the above?

If you’re looking for a (very) pre-holiday miracle, consider the little silvery “wish capsules” that instruct: “Write a single wish on the paper in the capsule and carry it with you wherever you go until your wish comes true. “

All you need is $3.50 and a dream.

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DOMESTIC WORKERS HEALTH FAIR ON MAY 31

A free health fair specifically for domestic workers will offer health screenings (blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and BMI),

hands-on pediatric CPR demonstrations, health counseling, and information on burn safety, seizures, and immigrant and human rights. Join us for a fun day for the whole family, including face painting and giveaways.

WHEN: Friday, May 31, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

WHERE: Sokol Hall, 420 E. 71st Street (between First and York Avenues).

Sponsored by NewYork-Presbyterian’s Ambulatory Care Network. For more information, call Chris Marengo, 212-746-6460.

SKIN CANCER SCREENINGThe Department of Dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College is offering its annual free skin cancer screening. Walk-in only – no appointments will be taken. WHEN: Friday, May 17, 1 – 5 p.m.WHERE:1305 York Avenue at 70th Street, 9th Floor

ORAL CANCER SCREENINGNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College are offering a free oral cancer screening for adults 18+. Walk-in only – no appointments will be taken. WHEN: Thursday, June 6, 12 – 3 p.m.WHERE:2315 Broadway at 84th Street, 3rd Floor

FREE!

Weill Cornell Opens New Neuro Institute

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center, located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side at York Avenue and 68th Street, comprises NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College.

For general information, call (212) 746-5454. For information about physicians and patient programs, call (877) NYP-WELL.

Produced by the Public Affairs Department of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, (212) 821-0560.

Photo by Ira Casel

There is a rising tidal wave of age-related brain

diseases striking our maturing population, especially the 77 million Baby Boomers who will all need care for age-related brain diseases at the same time,” says Dr. Costantino Iadecola, a leading neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College and a neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. “Brain and mind diseases are a growing health challenge worldwide and a major contributor to loss of life and severe disability.”

Dr. Iadecola was recently named the director of the new Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at the medical college. The institute is a research hub that promises to move lab research into advanced personal-ized therapies for patients with devastating brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease, stroke and

multiple sclerosis. In addition, scientists will develop new ways to identify risk factors for brain disease and preventive strategies and will study the impact that other conditions, such as high blood pressure or metabolic diseases, have on brain health. A central focus will be translational research, in which scientists and doctors collaborate to help turn research advances quickly into practical clinical applications. The institute takes a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together leading experts in neuroscience, neurol-ogy, neurosurgery, psychiatry, radiology and geriatrics, among others. Dr. Iadecola will work hand-in-hand with a team of leading physician-scientists, including Dr. Matthew E. Fink, the medical center’s head of neurology. The institute will be headquartered in the new Belfer Research Building, set to open at the end of 2013.

Named in honor of Gertrude and Louis Feil, the institute was created with a generous $28 million gift from the Feil Family. Their gift will also allow for the hiring of four to six top neuroscientists; state-of-the-art equipment; scholarships for trainees and medical students; and more. For more than three decades, the entire Feil Family has championed research, education and patient care at Weill Cornell with generous gifts of more than $75 million. “Thanks to the Feil Family, Weill Cornell is leading the way with translational medicine research discoveries that will make a difference in the lives of patients,” says Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. “This institute serves as a model for the future of biomedicine,

breaking down barriers to the innovative discovery of vital solutions for the prevention and treatment of devastating brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and stroke.”

Sleep-related problems are among the most common issues seen by a pediatri-

cian. Poor sleep habits can lead to behavior-al, educational, social and health problems. Fortunately, many childhood sleep prob-lems can be recognized early and treated successfully.

The new Weill Cornell Pediatric Sleep Center, located at 425 East 61st Street, is staffed by a team of pediatricians and

pediatric specialists in the areas of sleep, pul-monology, ENT, neurology and psychology to address a range of sleep issues, from teach-ing parents techniques to help babies sleep during the night to more serious problems, such as sleep apnea, which is often a cause of heavy and frequent snoring. After conducting testing in child-friendly sleep labs, the team develops individualized treatment plans, which may include breath-ing-support devices, medications, surgery or behavioral therapy. “Many behavioral problems we see in children are the result of sleep problems. Once you address sleep, these problems, be it moodiness or depression or even ADHD, may disappear,” says Dr. Haviva Veler, director of the center and a pediatrician at the Komansky Center for Children’s Health at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. For more information, call 646-962-3410.

Why Snoring in Kids Isn’t Cute

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Dr. Costantino Iadecola, Director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute

$28 MILLION GIFT FROM FEIL FAMILY

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center is a proud recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2013 Combined Heat and Power Award, presented for our state-of-the-art and environmentally sustainable cogenera-tion heat and power plant on the Upper East Side. In 2013, we also received the EPA’s Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management for the eighth time since 2005.

A t a press conference at Weill Cornell Medical College on February 24,

Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney joined Weill Cornell Dean Dr. Laurie Glimcher, State Senator Liz Krueger, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, City Council Member Jessica Lappin, and Weill Cornell researchers, students and patients to decry the harmful impact of federal budget sequestration on medical research. Sequestration, which began on March 1, is expected to reduce funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $1.6 billion this year. More than 80 percent of NIH’s budget is devoted to supporting more than 300,000 researchers at thousands of universities and research institutions across the country, with over half sup-porting medical schools and teaching hospitals, central to American scientific and health care research efforts and medical advances.

U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn), said, “New York’s world-class medical research institutions like Weill Cornell Medical College stand at the forefront of scientific innovation and discovery and the development of cutting-edge technology. They play a critical role in developing new strategies and treatment to save and prolong the lives of millions of people all over the world, and are also critical generators of our continuing economic recovery and job growth. I urge House leadership to avoid triggering a sequestration

of federal funding that will impose draconian cuts to the research and development programs that are our hope for the future. I am determined to join colleagues in both parties and both houses of Congress to prevent our nation from being forced into this entirely manufactured fiscal crisis.” Dean Dr. Laurie Glimcher of Weill Cornell Medical College said, “Medical research has opened the door to new treatments for cancer, cardiovascular disease and many other illnesses, treatments that have saved lives and substantially improved the quality of others. At Weill Cornell we are poised to continue the fight, but sequestration

will undermine these efforts and prevent us from fully building on the promise of new discoveries.” Sequestration will bring approxi-mately $85 billion in automatic cuts to the federal budget. These cuts will disproportionately hit federal funding for medical research. Approximately $167 million in funding could be lost in New York State alone. New York receives an estimated economic return of $7.50 for each research dollar invested in New York’s medical schools. Therefore, a $167 million loss in NIH funding would equate to an overall loss of approximate-ly $1.255 billion to New York’s economy and could result in significant job losses.

Government Leaders Decry Sequestration“Without A Safety Net” Raises over $40,000 for Uninsured

Awards for Being “Green”

More than 250 New York philanthropists gathered at the Astor Center in the historic DeVinne Press

Building on March 22 for the second annual “Without A Safety Net” fund-raiser, raising more than $40,000 for the Weill Cornell Community Clinic. Funds raised from the sold-out event will support patient care for uninsured New Yorkers and will cover approximately 85 percent of the clinic’s annual budget.

The weekly clinic provides primary care, medications, and specialty referrals at little or no cost to more than 350 patients a year. It is run entirely by Weill Cornell medical students supervised by faculty and attending physicians.

Event highlights included a silent auction of artwork from 12 up-and-coming local artists, dancing to beats mixed by DJ Alec Swinburne, and the company of other New Yorkers committed to improving health care for New Yorkers. Guests enjoyed wines and hors d’oeuvres gener-ously donated and prepared by Hospitality Holdings, specialty mixed drinks featuring Karlsson’s Gold Vodka and beer from the Brooklyn Brewery.

To learn more about “Without A Safety Net” or to donate to the Weill Cornell Community Clinic, please visit: http://weill.cornell.edu/wccc/safetynet/

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, speaking, with (left to right) Dr. David Nanus, Jonathan Lowenberg, Dr. Manish Shah, and Dr. Laurie Glimcher.



DINING

Downtown restaurants are trying new variations on the traditional Bloody Mary just in time for spring brunch season

By Joanna Fantozzi

For this Mother’s Day, or even for that perfect spring Sunday aft ernoon, it’s the perfect time to celebrate with brunch. One of the best parts of brunch is

that delicious Bloody Mary. But not all spicy tomato cocktails are created equal. Take mom or your loved ones out for brunch, (even a liquid brunch), to one of these downtown places, where Bloody Marys take on an unusual twist.

At Burger and Barrel, the gastropub at Houston Street and Mercer Street, for instance, take your pick from four Bloody Mary choices including the traditional recipe. But for those looking for something more adventurous, try the Bloody Maria, made with infused tequila. Th e Queen Mary is made with spicy tomato juice, cucumber, gin and garnished with dill and lemon.

But the real draw, according to General Manager Carmelo Pecoraro, is the BBQ Bacon Bloody Mary, made with homemade BBQ sauce, tomato juice and candied bacon. It won fi rst place in the Tito’s Vodka best Bloody Mary competition.

“I feel like everyone likes a Bloody Mary made a certain way,” said Pecoraro. “Th ere’s always a variation on it, and that was the whole idea, to create something new.”

More recommendations:*Cole’s (Greenwich Ave and Main Street)

— Get a drink and an appetizer all rolled into one with Cole’s “Kitchen Sink” Bloody Mary. Chef Daniel Eardley pickles the green beans for the cocktail, which are thrown into the in-house made Bloody Mary mix, along with caper berries, olives, celery and lemon.

*Sauce (Rivington and Allen Street) — You and your loved ones have a choice of three fresh Bloody Mary concoctions at this farm-to-table mom’s Italian kitchen-esque restaurant. Plus all moms eat for free on Mother’s Day at Sauce! Try the Bloody Mario (made with Grappa Zardetto di Prosecco), Th e Bloody Maria (made with Sauza tequila), and a traditional Bloody Mary made with Tito’s Vodka.

*Colicchio and Sons (10th Avenue Between West 15th and West 16th Streets) — Th e Bloody Verde - You heard that right. It’s green, not red. Th at’s because this Bloody Mary variation, at one of Tom Colicchio’s famous restaurants, is made with green tomatoes, jalapenos, chilis, cilantro and green Tabasco sauce.

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Favorite: The Bloody Mary

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Cicely Tyson brings realness to The Trip to Bountiful

By Armond White

Broadway’s new Black (or non-traditional cast) production of Th e Trip to Bountiful comes alive when Cicely Tyson as Carrie Watts, an elderly Texas widow longing to return to her titular hometown, stands up and sings a church hymn

in a desolate bus station. It is the chestnut “Blessed Assurance” and as Tyson prances and sings, the audience spontaneously joined in.

Was it a response to the actress and her legacy of cultural landmarks (Sounder, Roots, Th e Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, East Side/West Side) or gospel’s call-and-response tradition that veteran Black performers and audiences bring to Broadway? It was a surprising—and unexpectedly satisfying—moment; unscripted by playwright Horton Foote whose synthetic Southern doggerel treats the human condition like bolts of preprinted fabric. Familiar ideas about family, aging and the passing of time are cut and stitched into ready-made, second-hand drama—the half-tragic equivalent to a sitcom.

But there’s Tyson as Carrie Watts, the role that originated by Lillian Gish and that won Geraldine Page an Oscar. Th is occasion forces one to realize the paucity of roles for older actresses (Tyson is 80), especially black actresses. Tyson seizes the vehicle to communicate her principled talent to a culture that has forgotten what that means.

When Carrie cries “I want to go back to Bountiful,” Tyson gives it the yearning of a woman who feels existentially stranded in a debilitating, non-nurturing place, a cramped two-room Houston apartment with her son Ludie (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) and his frustrated, harpy wife Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams). Th e situation parallels the lack of mobility faced by black actresses toiling in an unwelcoming or restricting profession.

Tyson‘s career milestones have always happened against the odds yet her successes are impressive because their always demonstrate moral integrity. Not the worse legacy, it puts Tyson in the same league as Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte–powerful performers who also stood for something. In this case, the memory of a bountiful artistic and political calling in which personal artistry illuminates mere professionalism.

Th at Tyson’s lack of sentimentality—her defi ning

quality—fi ts Carrie Watts is ironic. Foote’s determined yet nostalgic crone is utterly average, suff ering typical old-age dilemmas. Not exactly a warm matriarch, Tyson makes her stubborn, self-obsessed drive to return to her roots seem vital, (her subtle anger recalls Tyson’s Rebecca in Sounder). She works Foote’s threadbare, pseudo-homey clichés for all they’re worth. Th ere’s no richness in Foote’s writing, the fl at, naturalistic language resists poetry; Geraldine Page gave the fi lm her hammy but great emotionalism to stave off Foote’s unintended yet unavoidable bleakness. In the last act, director Michael Wilson lets Tyson nearly transform Carrie Watt’s dotage into principle: “I found my dignity and strength” she says looking at her girlhood home with the symbolic name, (a bland version of the yearning psychology William Inge expressed better in Come Back, Little Sheba).

Th at line isn’t quite believable but we know what Carrie/Tyson means: Th e search for stronger values and desire to restore personal heritage are clear. Th e sympathetic audience

provided a Tyler Perry response, giving more implicit Christian fellowship than Foote intended. (Singing “Blessed Assurance” also recalls Tyson’s very excellent Peter Bogdanovich TV movie Blessed Assurance.) With Tyson’s presence, this production’s new ethnic focus evokes the Great Migration history of blacks relocated to urban living yet retaining ambivalent memories of the South as home. Jeff Cowie’s set, superlatively lighted by Rui Rita, recalls the Hudson River School of bucolic radiance; creating a visible, nearly cinematic passage of time.

Th e years since Tyson performed in the legendary 1961 production of Genet’s Th e Blacks have seen the once-thriving Black American theater movement pass. In this not-good-enough play Tyson’s richness and will makes one nostalgic for Black theater’s forgotten bounty.

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Media short sides with American aristocracy—and dishonesty

By Armond White

The worst Steven Spielberg production ever is, without doubt, his Barack Obama homage, Steven Spielberg’s Obama. Unlike his disingenuous Obama-in-disguise campaign feature fi lm, Lincoln, this two-minute second satirical short

looks artless and slapdash; it was made for last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner—an annual event for fatcats that contradicts the United States’ supposed allegiance to democracy by gathering the nation’s most empowered people (media celebrities) to gently lambaste but mostly celebrate their empowered peer, the President, as the most casual, supercilious, inviolable and narcissistic cat of them all.

Newscasters have disgraced their profession and politics by making cameos with apparently no qualms that news is just another form of celebritized fi ction. Th ere’s an unholy alliance between the news industry and Hollywood. No matter the deprivations Americans across the country still suff er from Hurricane Sandy, Sandy Hook, West, Texas and the economy—the Correspondents’ dinner is a ritual for the privileged, the ruling class that Americans like to think doesn’t exist. Th at’s one reason they go to the movies, (the most shameful reason), and Spielberg made this short to further that ends of

mystifi cation, misguidance and manipulation. Th e mockumentary’s unfunny jokes start with Spielberg

asking “I mean who is Obama, really? We don’t know. We never got his transcripts.” Th is would only be amusing if it weren’t true. Th ere’s obscenity in joking about the media’s protection of Obama’s image and its implicit lack of decorum which began (negatively) with the media’s assault on George W, Bush’s presidency. But Nevermind. (Th at might have been a more clever title for the short—what, was Tony Kushner too busy reading Entertainment Weekly?).

Steven Spielberg’s Obama was made redundantly, to disguise the euphemistic Beltway metaphors of Lincoln, (such as that despicable moment when Abraham Lincoln, arms outstretched, mendaciously emulates the scales of justice—but politicking with his right hand and prevaricating with his Left ). Yet, those who care about the honor of Spielberg’s best work have to pay mind to this short’s dishonesty. It gainsays the fact of Obama’s media-based mythifi cation by joking about it.

Spielberg pretends in the short to be thinking about doing a fi rst fi lm about Obama and smirks, “Picking the right actor to “play Obama that was the challenge. So I needed someone who could dive in and really become Barack Obama. And as it turns out the answer was right in front of me all along: Daniel Day Lewis.” Th is plays the movie going public cheap, as if they weren’t smart enough to catch that Obama was already the subtext of Lincoln. Spielberg knew this, he let screenwriter Tony Kushner go forward with the rhetorical ruse which Th e New York Times only cottoned to aft er the fi lm’s release.

In an analysis titled “Confronting the Fact of Fiction and the Fiction of Fact,” two thumbs-up reviewers chimed “Lincoln isn’t just about how President Lincoln navigated the passage of the 13th Amendment; it is also about President Obama whose presidency could not be imagined without that amendment.” So much form the limits of Times critics’ imaginations. Th ey fi nally admitted that Spielberg and Kushner’s fabrications were rooted in the dark heart of millennial White Liberal fantasy, not historical fact or African American dreaming.

Because Obama has become the fulfi llment of White Liberal dreaming, his mythifi cation in Lincoln and throughout the mainstream media is accepted without vetting—so much so that even Spielberg can contribute to the mythifi cation, attempting to sway an election and then kid about it.

His short’s suggestion that the Obama myth required an actor of Daniel Day Lewis’ stature is inadvertently revealed. Spielberg boasts about Day Lewis’ method of ”becom[ing] his character: Hawkeye from Last Of Th e Mohicans, Bill the Butcher in Th e Gangs of New York and Abraham Lincoln from Lincoln. And you know what, he nailed it.” Nailing it is the correct, crucifying term for the Washington Correspondents Dinner’s deprecation of American history.

Spielberg’s litany accidentally links Obama’s presidency to questionable representations of American history: James Fennimore Cooper’s White fantasy that Leslie Fiedler once explicated, (in Love and Death and the American Novel) as the embodiment of Eurocentric fears and the basis of America’s racial delusions, (a critical thesis now forgotten in the Ebert age); Scorsese’s post-Vietnam imagining of America’s hostile social legacy and immigrant brutality. Spielberg ties all that to Lincoln, not to absolve it but to unconsciously root it to the racial and political confusion about slavery and identity that the unvetted Obama represents.

But, wait! It gets worse! Obama himself takes part in Spielberg’s charade. Aft er once claiming “I have a lot on my plate,” Obama generously took the time to complete Spielberg’s

fantasy by showing how he prepares for public performance: Looking into a mirror, Obama preps “Hello, Ohio! Hello, Ohio!” “I love you back.” “Look, look, let me be clear about this.” Th e only thing that’s clear is that the gathered media aristocracy, (including the low-down yet highly-placed of Hollywood and Manhattan), approves this disingenuousness. It’s all right with them. Th ey want a President as lacking in dignity as they are, so they reduce him to their level—morally, professionally, politically.

Th is short is Spielberg’s most Brechtian comedy: he gets the President of the United States to ridicule the supposedly sincere reasons his constituents support him, undermining the prestige of offi ce that even his opponents are obliged to respect. (One could argue that the media’s out-of-control disrespect the presidency began with George W. Bush or maybe our lapdog media was born during the Clinton administration). For Spielberg, Obama willingly portrays a performer in the act of deceiving the public. (Only Bill and Hillary Clinton taking on the roles of the mafi a gangsters Th e Sopranos was as off ensive.)

It is not funny when Obama-as-Day-Lewis confuses things, saying “Th e hardest part? Trying to understand his [my] motivations. Why did he [I] pursue ‘health care’ fi rst? What makes him [me] tick? Why doesn’t he [I] get mad? If I was him I’d be mad all the time. But I’m not him, I’m Daniel Day Lewis.” It’s as bad as a Saturday Night Live skit. Or a Jon Stewart Early Show skit. Or a Real Time with Bill Maher skit. (Or a Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow skit, I mean, “newscast.”) Th at’s how low the producer of the terrifi c early Zemeckis-Gale comedies has sunk.

For the past seven months I’ve personally been fi elding questions about why I didn’t like the movie Lincoln. Going through the unpleasant eff ort of explaining the fi lm’s basic inaccuracy and unfairness to people who were prepared to love and defend it simply because it was customized to their political sentiments, made my explanation all the more frustrating. (When die-hard Spielberg scoff ers praised Lincoln, I knew their commendations had nothing to do with esthetics or history, only with the fi lm’s slanted politics and strenuously forced contemporary parallel to Obama’s lame-duck presidency.)

Now, aft er the disappointment of the Kushner-Spielberg Lincoln, we get its unfortunate sequel—actually a coda. A coda ought to reinforce a work’s preceding revelations but it’s become apparent that aft er his previous great fi lms showed the humane aspect of the human experience, Spielberg has taken up the partisan view. Now that Spielberg shows us what Lincoln actually meant, one can really, rightfully rue it.

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Suspending RealityBurning Man collaborative art comes to Wan-Der-Lust

By Elena Oumano

The six artists behind “Wan-Der-Lust,” a month-long, (now through May 15), mixed-media pop-up exhibit on the ground fl oor of 72 Wooster Street, announces its mission in a black painted scrawl over the entrance:

“Wanderlust is about the primal impulse for exploration. Th e work assembled expresses a freedom pulsing through the body blood.

Th e collective narrative in this exhibition is informed by journeys unknown; inspired by the moment. Th e work is meant to inspire a state of constant fl ow and transformation. Th rough these works on paper, canvas, photography, sculpture and furniture, we express the human craving for discovery.

Welcome to Wanderlust. We invite you to suspend in your reality.” Since art of necessity involves exploration, transformation, and discovery, perhaps more to the

point is photographer Peter Ruprecht’s observation that this show embodies the “Burning Man ethos of collaboration brought into the real world.” Photographers Reka Nyari and Ruprecht; artists Jody Levy and Arten Mirolevich; sculptors/furniture makers Dara Young and Yarrow Mazzetti; along with Harlan Berger of Centaur Properties, the developer hosting “Wan-Der-Lust” before 72 Wooster is sold, met at Burning Man and formed a camp that creates art alongside others as part of the pop-up community that takes over Nevada’s Black Rock desert every year. Over the course of a few weeks, they’ve transformed a rough, rubble-strewn NYC space lacking electricity into a gallery in order to showcase the individual works that oft en bear traces of each other’s fortuitous interference.

All the contributors here evidence imagination and skill, but Ruprecht and Mazzetti show the strongest. Mazzetti’s powerfully authentic heart of pine and stainless steel furniture includes a sleekly gorgeous dining table and a chest with 5 theme drawers, each crammed with objects and opening to a fl ood of music. Ruprecht, a former Olympic skier and fi nancial consultant who’s untrained in photography, fi rst bought a camera in 2006 and a few years later, had a billboard looming over Times Square. His richly-colored, high contrast images are not framed. Instead, Mazzetti’s aluminum backings extend the images’ space beyond four corners, underscoring their generosity and excitingly alive quality. A series of meticulously rendered etchings by Mirolevich, a visionary artist also working in water color, pen and ink here stands out as well. He’s the only Wan-Der-Lust artist with professional representation, But galleries are currently circling Ruprecht. Th ree of his photos were snapped up at the opening night party attended by 2000 people gathered mostly by internet word-of-mouth—further evidence of Burning Man’s infi ltration into the real world.

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By Jay Nordlinger

From May 6 to May 11, Carnegie Hall will present a festival called “Spring for Music.” It off ers fi ve orchestras in six concerts. Th e orchestras come from around the country, and one of them was to have been the Oregon Symphony. Th e Oregonians found themselves short on cash, however, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) will play two concerts (May 9 and 10).

Th e fi rst DSO concert consists of Sergei Rachmaninoff , Kurt Weill and Maurice Ravel. Th e second one is devoted to Charles Ives—his four symphonies. Th e concerts are conducted by the DSO’s music director, Leonard Slatkin.

I say to him, in a phone conversation, “I’m glad to be hearing Ives. But it’s a shame not to hear Walter Piston—he’s never played.” Slatkin informs me that he himself conducts Piston. But it’s true: Th e mid-century Americans are largely ignored. Music follows fashion, and Piston, William Schuman, Peter Mennin and the rest of those guys are out of fashion. A young conductor, says Slatkin, should make a project out of reviving them.

A young woman named Caroline Shaw has just won the Pulitzer Prize, notes Slatkin. She does not call herself a composer, interestingly enough. But performers will naturally want to perform what music she has written, or will write. What they’re unlikely to do, says Slatkin, is unearth, say, the Seventh Symphony of Roy Harris. (Th at composer’s Th ird was once well-known, but has faded from the repertoire.)

Slatkin grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a famous musician: Felix Slatkin, the violinist, conductor, arranger and so on. In and out of the house trooped even more famous musicians: Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, yes, but also Art Tatum, the jazz pianist, and Frank Sinatra. Felix Slatkin died in 1963, when he was only 47. Leonard was 19.

He is now doing what his father wanted to do but did not live quite long enough to do: head an orchestra. His father wanted an orchestra of his own to conduct, somewhere. He was on the verge of getting one when he died. Leonard Slatkin has held many music directorships in his career. He started in Detroit fi ve years ago.

Th e DSO has come through a rocky period. Before there was a national recession, there was a “one-state recession”: Michigan’s. Th e DSO was not immune. Th en, toward the end of 2010, the musicians went on strike, for six months. Th e orchestra is now back on its feet, reformed and fl exible.

Th e musicians took a pay cut—22 percent, on average. But they can earn more with optional

work. Th e orchestra’s main home is still Orchestra Hall, downtown. But they are also out in the suburbs, in six diff erent venues. Occasionally, the musicians break out into smaller ensembles, such as string quartets. “We don’t do fl ash mobs yet,” says Slatkin, “but that may come.”

Ticket prices have fallen, and ticket sales have increased. Also, concerts are streamed live on the Internet. “We are redefi ning the word ‘audience,’” says Slatkin. Th e webcasts are free of charge. Doesn’t this keep people from going to the concert hall? On the contrary, says Slatkin: Th e webcasts whet their appetite for the live-and-in-person experience.

Th e DSO is even developing an audience abroad, says Slatkin. “So, when the time comes to resume international touring, we have a head start. People not only know how we play, they know what we look like.”

You can buy all nine Beethoven symphonies from the DSO for a mere 20 bucks: Th ey are downloadable. Slatkin fi gures we will have compact discs for another three or four years and then yield entirely to new technologies.

Th e DSO also has a number of programs designed to provide music education to young Detroiters—this used to be the job of families and schools. Slatkin himself enjoyed an excellent music education in the public schools he attended. He may have come from a spectacularly musical home, but “I cherished that hour when the music teacher came in with an autoharp.” Our society has changed, though, as we all know.

In short, the DSO has found a way to keep itself afl oat, and moving forward. Th ey are coping with the challenges of today, and also taking advantage of opportunities—such as the Internet. Slatkin is a particularly good ambassador for music. He is not only a fi ne conductor, he is one of the best talkers about music you’ll ever hear. He has some things in common with a conductor he much admired, Leonard Bernstein. And aft er all these years, he still loves music as much as ever.

“I have the best job in the world,” he says. “It is an honor and a privilege, as well as a responsibility.” He continues, “I stand in front of a hundred musicians and give a downbeat. To this day, I’m not 100 percent sure why that sound comes out”—the hard-to-beat sound of an orchestra.

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Past studies have shown that people who exercise are more protected against stress-related disorders. And scientists know that the perception of control can benefi t a person’s mental health. But it has been an open question whether a person who feels forced to exercise, eliminating the perception of control, would still reap the anxiety-fi ghting benefi ts of the exercise.

People who may feel forced to exercise could include high school, college and professional athletes, members of the military or those who have been prescribed an exercise regimen by their doctors, said Benjamin Greenwood, an assistant research professor in CU-Boulder’s Department of Integrative Physiology.

“If exercise is forced, will it still produce mental health benefi ts?” Greenwood asked. “It’s obvious that forced exercise will still produce peripheral physiological benefi ts. But will it produce benefi ts to anxiety and depression?”

To seek an answer to the question Greenwood and his colleagues, including Monika Fleshner, a professor in the same department, designed a lab experiment using rats. During a six-week period, some rats remained sedentary, while others exercised by running on a wheel.

Th e rats that exercised were divided into two groups that ran a roughly equal amount of time. One group ran whenever it chose to, while the other group ran on mechanized wheels that rotated according to a predetermined schedule. For the study, the motorized wheels turned on at speeds and for

periods of time that mimicked the average pattern of exercise chosen by the rats that voluntarily exercised.

Aft er six weeks, the rats were exposed to a laboratory stressor before testing their anxiety levels the following day. Th e anxiety was quantifi ed by measuring how long the rats froze, a phenomenon similar to a deer in the headlights, when they were put in an environment they had been conditioned to fear. Th e longer the freezing time, the greater the residual anxiety from being stressed the previous day. For comparison, some rats were also tested for anxiety without being stressed the day before.

“Regardless of whether the rats chose to run or were forced to run they were protected against stress and anxiety,” said Greenwood, lead author of the study appearing in the European Journal of Neuroscience in February. Th e sedentary rats froze for longer periods of time than any of the active rats.

“Th e implications are that humans who perceive exercise as being forced — perhaps including those who feel like they have to exercise for health reasons — are maybe still going to get the benefi ts in terms of reducing anxiety and depression,” he said.

Th e research was funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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With the beginning of spring, along with the bird sounds and the sprouting of early blooming plants, allergy sufferers are beginning to notice their allergies troubling them. Catch the local weather report and you will hear that the pol-len count that measures the tiny grains of fertil-ization for trees and grasses is especially high now. Since these pollen grains can travel on air currents for many miles you don’t have to be running in the park or gardening to be affected by them. They are hitting your nose, throat and lower airways as you breathe in the fresh spring air. If you are allergic your immune system is recognizing them and reacting accordingly. You may be sneezing, sniffling, noting a runny nose or even coughing, wheezing or feeling short of breath. Your eyes may be red, itchy or watering or you might be noting hives – red, itchy, swol-len blotches.

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ronnie Ward, an Australian nurse who has spent time with patients during their last several weeks of life, wrote an article last year called "Th e Top 5 Regrets of the

Dying," based on the conversations she had with her patients.

Aft er compiling the answers, Ward said that among the most common regrets expressed by the patients were:

I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

I wish that I had let myself be happier.She also wrote about one regret: I wish I

didn't work so hard. Th is sentiment came from mostly male

patients that she has nursed. Th ey missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship.

Women also spoke of this regret. But as most

women she has nursed were from a generation where they had not been breadwinners, there were less who mentioned it.

"All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence," she wrote.

Family and relationship expert Hellen Chen, has had a similar experience.

"Th e deepest regret that I have heard has been men and women missing out on the most important part of life: the quality of their relationship in a marriage or with their children," she said.

Chen specializes in working with men and women resistant to marriage. She says she helps them overcome their hopelessness and past disappointments so that they can say, "I do."

"Th ere are so many successful career professionals who came to me, from doctors to execs to CEOs," she said. "Th ey have everything in their life: money, house, stable career, talent. But all these accomplishments could not replace the void of a close companion to share their success with."

Top regret of the dying: 'I wish I didn't work so hard'


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Former New York Times columnist settles down to write a travel memoir

By Angela Barbuti

You know you’re a frugal traveler if you’ve eaten fried spiders in Cambodia,

slept in a Roman convent, and booked a fl ight with Ryan Air. Matt Gross has done all of the above while penning the Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times from 2006-2010. Now, the man who arguably had “the best job in the world,” is sharing his over 30 years of travel in one book, Th e Turk Who Loved Apples. At the moment, his longest journey is from the Times Square offi ce of Bon Appetit, where he serves as their web editor, to the Brooklyn home he shares with his wife and two children. But he wouldn’t have it any other way. When asked about his future plans, he said, “Right now, I have a great job, two kids, and a wife to see all the time. Most people want to be on vacation forever. Th at’s what it feels like right now.”

How did you organize 30 years of travel into one book?

[Laughs] Th at was the tricky part. I have very broad experiences of travel, but not necessarily very deep. Th at is, I’ve been lots of places, but never anywhere for more than about two weeks at a time. And I had to fi gure out some kind of way to tie everything together. I looked at everything I’d done and everything I’d been through and decided that crappy travel [laughs] was the organizing principle. A lot of getting sick, getting lost, being alone, scared, poor and naïve. I started out very innocent to the world and wound up capable of getting dropped off anywhere and getting along.

At the start of your book, you make a bold statement, telling readers that this is the last travel book they will ever need.

Yeah, I would hope so. [Laughs] I like the idea that if someone like me can become a fairly independent traveler and learn to break free of the guide books and the newspaper and magazine articles that tell you how to

travel, then anybody should be able to do it. It’s a very personal book, but if it has an eff ect, I would love for it to give travelers the confi dence to do things on their own.

In your book, you mention websites like couchsurfi ng.com and chowhound.com. In your opinion, what is the best travel site?

Roadsandkingdoms.com is fantastic. It’s full of the quirky and fascinating moments that mean something to travelers. I read it and it makes me want to go places.

At one point, you were spending three to six months a year away from your wife. How does she cope with that?

Pretty well. [Laughs] When I met her, we dated for six weeks and then she moved to France for a year. Th at sort of set up the pattern of our relationship from the very beginning - that we were going to be together and apart all the time. We don’t have the energy to get worked up about issues like that, so we just deal with it. It makes it so that every time you’re together it’s either a happy reunion or you want to make the most of it because you’re going to be going away again.

You are now the editor of bonappetit.com. How did that job come about?

Last August, aft er I fi nished writing the book, I was about to have a second child and

realized that it was no longer fair to my wife or me to wonder off for a couple of weeks at a time and leave her in charge of the kids. And I wasn’t making all that much money doing what I was doing. I sent an email out to everyone saying I was looking. Six weeks later I got an email back from a friend in Portland, Oregon, who had put on a big food event with Bon Appetit, saying they were looking for an editor.

Most would be surprised to learn that you were a freelancer when you worked at the Times.

All freelance. You’d have to ask them why that is. [Laughs] But there was never held out the possibility that I’d become a staff er. My last big story, “Lost in Jerusalem,” came out for them in January of 2012. Th en I sort of hunkered down to write the book and stopped traveling as much. Th at’s how most of their travel writers are. From an economic perspective, it makes sense. Travel stories take a lot of time to research and cost a lot

of money to produce. And you can’t get that many big stories out of a person per year.

As the Frugal Traveler, you spent 100 dollars per day.

Long summer trips I would try to keep below 100 dollars a day. A hundred dollars a day was my cap, and I would try to shoot for as far under that as I could. Some people would get mad because I said 100 dollars a day and say, “Th at’s not frugal!”

You got that comment a lot, that you weren’t frugal enough.

Oh, yeah. People would say that all the time. It just depends on your perspective. Some people see “frugal,” and think that’s supposed to mean you’re backpacking and sleeping in a tent and buying loaves of cheap white bread at the supermarket. But then

there are people who are on the other side who think that the kind of travel I was doing was hopelessly impoverished. [Laughs] “How can anyone even fi nd a place to sleep for under 300 dollars a night?”

One interesting story you did involved traveling to Tokyo to write about Ramen. What’s one of your favorite articles?

Oh yeah, that was a great story. A lot of the food stuff I did for the Times was good. I did a story with the headline, “Mangia, Mangia!” about eating in Abruzzo with this program called Home Food, which brings you into regular families’ dining rooms. Th at was amazing.

Where is one place you still haven’t visited that you’d like to someday?

Hmmm. I’d really like to go to New Zealand, but not for any really specifi c reason. I just think I would like it a lot there. [Laughs]

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