Covet, Manhattan's newest upscale lounge and restaurant offers live music on Thursday evenings in their downstairs lounge from 8pm - 11:30pm. For reservations and info, call (212) 223-2829. No cover.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Improvox: Unzipping the DNA of Music
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What ‘Fact-Checking’ Means Online
The day I became a fact-checker at The New Yorker, I received one set of red pencils and one set of No. 2 pencils. [FC: There used to be a training period before the pencils.] [[VH: O.K. for “the day I became a fact-checker” to designate end of training period?]] Read more...
Saturday, August 21, 2010
For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson — a Schubert sonatina in A minor. His assessment of her playing was diplomatic: “She needed to be reminded about notes and rhythms.” Read more...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Start-Ups on a Shoestring
You don't have to break the bank to start a business.
For many would-be entrepreneurs, money is the insurmountable hurdle. They hunger to strike out on their own, but don't have a big pile of cash to invest in a start-up that might not churn a profit for years to come. And they're reluctant to stake what cash they do have while the economy is still shaky. Read more...Monday, August 9, 2010
Craig Handy Quartet featuring Victor Lewis Perform at Rue 57 Thursday August 12
Saxophonist Craig Handy debuts at Rue 57 (60 West 57th Street) on Thursday, August 12 for a special evening of straight ahead jazz with a quartet featuring guitarist Joe Cohn, bassist Paul Gill and drummer Victor Lewis. You'll find the band downstairs in the Salon from 8 pm - 11:30 pm. No cover charge. For more information call (212) 307-5656. For more info, click here
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Music-Copyright Enforcers
Few things can make Devon Baker cry.
There was the time her pet hamster, Herschel, died. There was the time she was run over by a car. Neither episode provoked tears. Not even close. And yet, on a recent Thursday, as Baker drove down Highway 60, about 55 miles northwest of Phoenix, she had to wonder, Is today one of those days when I’m gonna cry? Read more...Tuesday, August 3, 2010
They Sang Along With Mitch
'Mitch Miller was the guy who showed everybody how to be a producer," said Tony Bennett—probably the greatest of the late musician-producer-conductor's "discoveries"—in 1989. Speaking metaphorically, Mr. Bennett elaborated: "When Mitch had a cigar and a beard, everybody else had to have a cigar and a beard." Read more...
Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99
Will Investing in a Film Noir Put You in the Black?
The annual blockbuster-movie season has arrived, and maybe you, too, ought to be in pictures—if you want to rub shoulders with Hollywood's elite and don't mind watching your investment fade to black.
Numerous films, from major blockbusters like "Avatar" to low-budget independent films like "Paranormal Activity," rely on hedge funds or individual investors to help provide funding. Some firms are even trying to set up a futures market for investors to bet on box-office receipts, though the industry is lobbying Congress to ban that practice before it begins. Read more...Restaurants Chase Grade
Scramble to Comply With Requirements Under City's New Inspection Scheme
New York City restaurants, about to be publicly "graded" based on inspection reports, are scrambling to comply with guidelines regulating everything from cleanliness to food temperatures. Read more...
New York City restaurants, about to be publicly "graded" based on inspection reports, are scrambling to comply with guidelines regulating everything from cleanliness to food temperatures. Read more...
On the Verge of ‘Vital Exhaustion’?
Decades ago modern medicine all but stamped out the nervous breakdown, hitting it with a combination of new diagnoses, new psychiatric drugs and a strong dose of professional scorn. The phrase was overused and near meaningless, a self-serving term from an era unwilling to talk about mental distress openly. Read more...
E-Books Rewrite Bookselling
NEW YORK—In the massive new Barnes & Noble superstore on Manhattan's Upper East Side, generous display space is devoted to baby blankets, Art Deco flight clocks, stationery and adult games like Risk and Stratego. Read more...
The Chapter And Verse on E-Bookstores
As books go digital, much of the focus has been on which gadgets offer the best approximation of old-fashioned paper and ink on a screen. But there's another choice that's just as important for readers to weigh before they make the leap to e-books: which e-bookstore to frequent. Read more...
When the Customer Is in the Neighborhood
New tech tools let restaurants know if potential business is around the corner
Restaurant promotion is going high-tech.Franchise restaurants have long tried to drum up business on the local level with newspaper ads and with mass mailings of coupons and other promotional offers. Read more...Technology for the Solo Entrepreneur
A host of new gadgets is making it easier than ever to work on your own
As the economy pushes more corporate workers out into freelance work, technology is making it easier and cheaper for them to thrive. Read more...Google Readies Its E-Book Plan, Bringing in a New Sales Approach
Google Inc. plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company official said Tuesday, throwing the search giant into a battle that already involves Amazon.com Inc., AppleInc. and Barnes & Noble Inc. Read more...
Let there be sex
'Christian sex toys' isn't a phrase I ever thought I'd hear. But seek and ye shall find – just make sure you're married. Read more...
BANNED: The most controversial films
Take some needless violence, a religious satire and a dash of incest - and you've got yourself a collection of films too shocking for cinema. Read more...
The Rise of the Fleet-Footed Start-Up
ERIC RIES and Steven Blank think they have a better way to build a start-up, one that takes less time and money to try new ideas and find paying customers. They are leading proponents of the “lean start-up” — a fresh approach to creating companies that has attracted much attention in the last year or so among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, technologists and investors. Read more...
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
Why More U.S. Expatriates Are Turning In Their Passports
Chicago native Ben loves his country and is proud to be an American. Yet the longtime resident of Melbourne has just relinquished his U.S. citizenship. "This is not something I did lightly or happily, but I saw no other choice," says Ben, a businessman who became an Australian citizen two years ago. Read more...
Is Marriage Good for Your Health?
In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the “conjugal condition” of the people of France. He divided the adult population into three distinct categories: the “married,” consisting of husbands and wives; the “celibate,” defined as the bachelors and spinsters who had never married; and finally the “widowed,” those who had experienced the death of a spouse. Using birth, death and marriage records, Farr analyzed the relative mortality rates of the three groups at various ages. The work, a groundbreaking study that helped establish the field of medical statistics, showed that the unmarried died from disease “in undue proportion” to their married counterparts. And the widowed, Farr found, fared worst of all. Read more...
Autistic man draws Rome from memory
Stephen Wiltshire is a British man who was diagnosed as autistic when he was a child. He's also been noted for his exacting memory, which allows him to recreate [in drawings] vast scenes he sees only once. This video shows his 16-foot-panorama of Rome after taking one helicopter ride above the city.
Weighing the Evidence on Exercise
How exercise affects body weight is one of the more intriguing and vexing issues in physiology. Exercise burns calories, no one doubts that, and so it should, in theory, produce weight loss, a fact that has prompted countless people to undertake exercise programs to shed pounds. Without significantly changing their diets, few succeed. “Anecdotally, all of us have been cornered by people claiming to have spent hours each week walking, running, stair-stepping, etc., and are displeased with the results on the scale or in the mirror,” wrote Barry Braun, an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in the American College of Sports Medicine’s February newsletter.
But a growing body of science suggests...http://nyti.ms/cJ0Net
Government by Goldman Sachs
Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.
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