Other
-
Grading Teachers
Mother Jones published an article about the latest battle on the education front—evaluating teachers, which is re-raising issues about what public school model works best. The implementation of the new evaluation methods involves both “internal measurements” (where teachers are measured…
-
Drinkin/Jammin
There isn’t enough evidence of this summer season on this blog roll. We’re embarking on a wondrous season and it’s time to acknowledge it. One way to celebrate is through the inextricably-linked, summer-themed pairing of beer and summer jams. You…
-
Online Dating, Then and Now
A recent New Yorker article brings you the history of online dating, in all of its splendor. Nicholas Paumgarten traces back online dating to its roots at the World’s Fair in Queens in the fall of 1964, when it began…
-
Did You Just Eat Breakfast?
This one time in the 19th century, some guys were hanging out in a store when a shotgun accidently went off, wounding one Alex St Martin in the stomach, exposing his breakfast and his digestive system. While the part about…
-
Less Bad News for NYC Libraries
There’s more bad news about NYC’s libraries, but it’s less bad than ever, which in the context of libraries is almost like good news. The budget for the 2012 Fiscal Year is out, which was the impetus for Mayor Bloomberg’s…
-
“That’s Racist”
Culturally sensitive accusations turned into humorous catchphrase? Sounds like the kind of comical turnover that only my millennial generation could come up with! “That’s racist” is a quip that has become abundant in various forms (the name of a hip-hop…
-
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to find a giant squid Florida. I happen to really like Robert Montgomery’s billboard pieces. Let’s talk about interestingly bound books, yes? Old frying pans and surprisingly fascinating. That sentence said frying pants for a second by the way.…
-
Site for Cities
A new destination awaits the city dwellers, lovers, and planners among us. Yesterday The Atlantic announced its plans to launch The Atlantic Cities in September. The imminent site will be “dedicated to the global cities and neighborhoods where we live,…
-
Never That Young
“I have all the habits of someone who lived [in New York City] in the ’70s,” Fran Lebowitz tells City Room. “Which is that, if I have a pencil, I have a death grip on it. I see the people…
-
The Last Poem I Loved: “Sparrow” by Melissa Kwasny
I’ll be honest: I’m not usually much of a fan of prose poems. I like lineation, form, structure. Give me meter, syllabics, some rules to cling to—if I want a poem that looks like a chunky little square of prose,…
-
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is about time we started advertising to monkeys. Need to get married but short on funds? The AutoWed machine costs a mere dollar to use. Evidently the Olympics own 2012. Today in Russian fire-based art. Fake English houses are…