From an email I just got: “D.A. Pennebaker will appear on Monday, February 4 at the 7:30 and 9:40 shows of DONT LOOK BACK, the cinema verité milestone rockumentary which follows Bob Dylan as he tours England in 1965. Playing through Thursday, February 7 only!” How could you not go?
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Short Statements of Fact and Opinion at Weekend’s Sweet Beginning
The Virginia Snedeker show at the Morris Museum will knock your socks off and bring back welcome memories of New Yorker art past.
“Jeffrey Toobin didn’t see it coming.”
Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of John Currin, which floored me, “needs to be read by major newspaper art critics.”
From “Reading the New Yorker at the Gut Doctor,” a poem by Benjamin Nardolilli:
The writer of the essay wonders, and so do I
Why put your suffering on a stage,
When it fits much better inside a page?
“How Do I Spell MIKE in Spanish?”
Those assiduous scamps at The Chicago Manual of Style just put up their latest style Q&A, or, as The New Yorker would say, Q. & A. This is a new category, by the way, for very short posts. It’s named after a Dorothy Parker poem, “Little Words.” Hope you enjoy it, and thanks, supermen!