Tuesday July 08, 2008
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A public art show even a mayor can love
Published: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't the touchy-feely sort. He's a tightly wound efficiency expert, a gear head who became a billionaire 10 times over by selling a computer system that helped rich people become richer. Three years ago, when he hosted a news conference at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's colossal saffron-curtain installation in Central Park known as The Gates, he acknowledged the artistic worth of the project but preferred to focus on how much money it would bring the city.
A public art show even a mayor can love
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Online Edition: Sunday, June 29, 2008 08:53 PM
Waterfalls, dreamed up by the Danish-Icelandic conceptualist Olafur Eliasson, aims to change the way New Yorkers look at their water
Coldplay's NYC freebie worth the glitches
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Online Edition: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 03:38 AM
Band hosts a rec-room party for 16,000 at Madison Square Garden in New York
Coldplay's NYC freebie worth the glitches
Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
COLDPLAYAt Madison Square Gardenin New York on MondayColdplay hosted a rec-room party at Madison Square Garden on Monday night and invited 16,000 of their closest friends to sing along as they worked out the kinks in the material from their new album, Viva La Vida. The high-energy gig, the third and final free warm-up show before a tour that will hit Toronto, Montreal and Pemberton, B.C., next month, was promoted as a thank you to fans for making the band one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
Doc reveals dark side of iconic carriage rides
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Online Edition: Monday, June 23, 2008 03:20 AM
Doc reveals dark side of iconic carriage rides
Published: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
Vegetarian hors d'oeuvre and small talk about overfishing of the Chilean sea bass aren't usually on the menu at celebrity-studded movie screenings, but they're de rigueur at events hosted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. So on a rainy evening last week, while about 100 guests mingled at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts awaiting a screening of a damning documentary about the local horse-drawn carriage industry, you could get your fill of earnestness while drinking in the low-fat spectre of celebrities.
Carly Simon: 'We're going through a hard time now'
Published: Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
Carly Simon won't leave the stage. She's been singing for almost an hour and a half now, moving gamely through former hits - Anticipation, You're So Vain, etc. - for an invitation-only crowd of fans at Joe's Pub, the East Village cabaret space.
Carly Simon: 'We're going through a hard time now'
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Online Edition: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:59 PM
Singer continues the elusive search for balance in her life
A New York institution choked by the velvet rope
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Online Edition: Monday, June 16, 2008 03:47 AM
A New York institution choked by the velvet rope
Published: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
By 11:15 p.m. on a recent balmy evening in the Meatpacking District downtown, a pair of officers from the city's parking enforcement unit were already slapping down tickets on the Hummers and Mercedes lining Gansevoort Street. A drunken 30-something ex-frat boy, one shirt-tail untucked, wove uneasily down the sidewalk while a trio of giggling gals in tight mini-dresses tottered the other way.
