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No sooner did I visit Chumley’s on Tuesday (see post below) than an internal wall of the place literally collapsed. I woke this morning to the news that the historic speak-easy is now closed until further notice. Perhaps it was the weight of all that overly long...
Friday night at the Metropolitan Museum

Friday night at the Metropolitan Museum

I had worked in Simi’s office on Friday and was nearly asleep at 6pm from staring at the computer screen all day. With no plans for the evening I feared getting home early and falling asleep on the couch. Determined not to waste my night, I hopped on the...

The Lives of Others

If you haven’t seen this German film yet, drop everything and GO. It won Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards, but from all accounts it should have won Best Film (a category in which it wasn’t even nominated). My cinema-going has been...

Fashion feedback on 86th Street

Last week in a fit of consumption I splurged on a small black handbag. I justified it on a number of grounds – goes with jeans, works for day or evening, spring’s around the corner; also, just possibly, to mark the end of a long drought for this...
Anti-war Apple in the Apple

Anti-war Apple in the Apple

On Sunday afternoon I joined Simi, a few of her friends and a camera crew – well, her mate Christian and his colleague – to film her protesting the war in Iraq on its ignominious fourth anniversary, as part of the process of creating footage for use in the...
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