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Dave's Picks | Spotlight: Dusen Dusen — 12 Talents Shaping The World
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Dave's Picks | NYT | ‘Zoetrope’ Review: And You Thought Your Apartment Was Small?
They say … you can start by disregarding thread count. Here’s what else the pros know that you may not.
Let’s talk about glorious sleep and the art of how we do it best. While there may be as many ways to make a bed as there are doing dishes, with myriad choices from sheets and quilts to coverlets and duvets, one secret of life is that sleep is king and rules the day and your bedding shouldn’t stress you out. In this piece experts offer suggestions for dressing our bed, not unlike dressing to express ourselves and move through life as our best self.
Dave's Picks | NYT | There’s an Art to Making Your Bed
They say … you can start by disregarding thread count. Here’s what else the pros know that you may not.
Let’s talk about glorious sleep and the art of how we do it best. While there may be as many ways to make a bed as there are doing dishes, with myriad choices from sheets and quilts to coverlets and duvets, one secret of life is that sleep is king and rules the day and your bedding shouldn’t stress you out. In this piece experts offer suggestions for dressing our bed, not unlike dressing to express ourselves and move through life as our best self.
Dave's Picks | NYT | Welcome to the YOLO Economy
File Under: Choose happiness. Now?
Here’s a fascinating piece regarding a COVID trend, courtesy of WFH and the perils of our seemingly never ending lockdown. Perhaps you’ve made similar moves or know folks who, in the spirit of YOLO, were able to leave stable jobs in favor of postpandemic adventure? While we realize not everyone is fortunate to be so flexible as to abandon jobs or even careers in pursuit of happiness, it does beg a good look at the ways we can adapt, how perspectives shift, and how we prioritize as a society when backed into the corners of our homes, in order to simply stay alive. So this piece questions, when do we get to start living on our own terms?
Dave's Picks | NYT | How N.Y.C.’s Population Expert Says the City Will Bounce Back
Dave's Picks | NYT Opinion | They Escaped During The Pandemic. Now They Must PAY.
NYT | Covid Pushes Real Estate Into the Future
Dave's Picks | NYTMag | ‘I Voted’ Stickers for Everyone Who Needs One
A New York Magazine collab with 48 artists.
Hey kids look: Stickers! Super cool VOTING Edition!! And please, I know you know but DON’T SIT THIS ELECTION OUT. We need all hands ON DECK.
From NY Mag:
Perhaps you’re voting by mail this year. Millions of Americans are doing so, more than ever before, and many of them for the first time. What these voters need is I VOTED stickers. And so New York, in partnership with I am a voter., asked 48 artists to design them. The cover of the October 26 issue of the magazine will be converted to a sticker sheet, featuring contributions from Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Barbara Kruger, David Hammons, Laurie Simmons, Amy Sherald, Baron Von Fancy, Marilyn Minter, Lorna Simpson, Tawny Chatmon, Rico Gatson, Zipeng Zhu, Adam Pendleton, Adam J. Kurtz, Zaria Forman, and many more. There will be four different covers, each with 12 stickers — enough that each reader can wear a different one daily, from publication through to Election Day.
Dave's Picks | NYT | New Loses Iconic Graphic Designer Milton Glaser
Dave's Picks | NYT | Take One Last Look at the (Many) Plastic Bags of New York
A Twist in California’s Homeless Crisis: Evictions by the Evicted
Not to bring anyone down, but a surprising, ironic trend is developing in the very sad area of homelessness in California, in which the homeless are hired to deliver eviction notices in order to survive.
We found this think piece very Speak to Dave worthy and hope one day to be past the devastating reality of far too many unhoused Americans.
Dave's Picks | NYT | ‘High Maintenance’ and the New TV Fantasy of New York
Well now. In which we discuss the merits of television (“It’s not TV, Dave. It’s HBO”.) portraying our fair city . . . Do they get it right or nah?
By Willy Staley | Jan. 30, 2020
It was probably during the fourth episode of the second season of HBO’s “High Maintenance” when I finally noticed what it was up to. The show follows a weed dealer known only as The Guy while he bikes around Brooklyn, leading the viewer into his customers’ homes and lives, where the cameras remain long after he’s gone, letting us peer into their problems, quirks, traumas and anxieties. Like many representations of New York on TV, it’s loosely predicated on the notion that people who live here are inherently more interesting than people who live in, say, Milwaukee. This particular episode centers on a man named Baruch who has just left one of Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox sects. His hair is still twisted into payos, and he’s crashing with a friend in a squalid railroad apartment, looking for whatever work he can find by plugging search terms like “kosher jobs” into Craigslist. He tells his friend that he’s going on a date with a shiksa, one who has been asking him penetrating questions. “Wait a minute,” the friend responds. “Is she a writer?”
Dave's Picks The Yum Edition | NYT | The Perfect Cake for Your Coffee Break
Meet fika, the Swedish cake whose word is a flip on the word kaffe and is a widely beloved cultural staple, multi-purpose sweet treat break with no set rules. A seriously delicious treat to learn about and love, GET YOU SOME!
Originally published By Dorie Greenspan | Jan. 8, 2020
“Coffee and” was an expression I heard all the time as a kid. From early morning until late in the afternoon, the aroma that filled the kitchen, wafted through the living room and wisped its way up the stairs was coffee, Chock Full o’ Nuts specifically. The coffeepot burbled steadily in our house, always ready for the next cup, and at least once a day, one or another of my mom’s friends would knock on the unlocked door, push it open and head for the kitchen, knowing that the percolator would be on the stove and that on the counter there would be cake — the “and” in “coffee and.”
NYT Photo Essay | Your Tales of Subway Escalator Hell
Okay folks, time to discuss the dire Metro subway escalator situation. Peep this photo essay and don’t hesitate to tag @NYTMetro on social media to get their attention.
Out of 472 subway stations, only about 25 percent are accessible to riders in wheelchairs. Some stations are so deep beneath the city that your impromptu cardio session could mean walking up 100 steps to the street.
Subway riders already have to deal with a variety of daily indignities: unexpected delays, sweltering cars with no air conditioning and broken ticket machines. But as service on New York City’s subway slowly improves, the escalators are getting worse.
NYT | How a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in N.Y. History
Into NYC folklore? Check out this NYT piece.
For a few months in 1964, “Murph the Surf” and his crew became folk heroes when they looted the Hall of Gems from the American Museum of Natural History.
This excerpt is from a piece originally published By Corey Kilgannon | Oct. 17, 2019 | Updated Oct. 18, 2019, 3:47 a.m. ET
For its 150th anniversary, the American Museum of Natural History is celebrating its many historic moments, from its 1869 founding, to the 1902 discovery of the first T-Rex skeleton, to the creation of the Teddy Roosevelt statue erected out front in 1940.
One milestone not on that list: the biggest jewel heist in New York history, when the Star of India, a 563-carat sapphire the size of a golf ball, was snatched from its display case, along with the rare Eagle Diamond, the DeLong Star Ruby and some 20 other precious gems from a collection donated to the museum by J.P. Morgan.
For several months beginning in October 1964, the city was transfixed by the brazen robbery that the tabloids immediately labeled the heist of the century.
NYT | The Bar That Has Fed SoHo for Almost a Century
Fanelli’s, on the corner of Mercer and Prince Streets, is a bastion of old New York beloved by artists and tourists alike.
In this series for T, the author Reggie Nadelson revisits New York institutions that have defined cool for decades, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives.
Seven years ago this fall, when Superstorm Sandy hit New York and there was no power downtown, SoHo was deserted, dark and cold. At Fanelli’s, the neighborhood cafe, though, there were candles on the bar, plenty of booze and, for as long as it lasted, food. Most important, there was company and conversation. “I was here the whole time,” says Sasha Noe, Fanelli’s owner. “Where else could I be?”
NYT | Welcome to the party. The New York City block party
New Yorkers, we live on top of one another, so it’s only natural that sometimes we spill out onto the concrete. It happens especially during the sweltering summer spells, when even the apartment walls seem to sweat.
There are very few backyards in the city, so to avoid walking up flights, a steamy basement or balmy bedrooms, we hug the block.
Across all five boroughs New Yorkers set out on their streets with lawn chairs, pools, bouncy castles and tables full of food, to enjoy the summer together. Throughout the day there is a cacophony of familiar music, the laughter of children playing and the sizzling sound of meat on a grill. No cars are allowed.
Dave's Picks | NYT Opinion — Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?
It’s worth noting on a national holiday extolling the value and dignity of labor that Americans are uniquely obsessed with work. Could any other nation come up with a product like Soylent, a meal substitute, not for the elderly, the poor or the malnourished, but for software engineers, Wall Street brokers, tech entrepreneurs and others who don’t want to be diverted from their work by the time consuming intricacies of a meal? Could you imagine the French conceiving such a thing?
While other wealthy nations have shortened the workweek, given their citizens more free time and schemed to make their lives more pleasant, stress-free and enjoyable, the United States offers a curious paradox: Though the standard of living has risen, and creature comforts are more readily and easily available — and though technological innovations have made it easier to work efficiently — people work more, not less.