Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:40:06 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon webmaster@nysun.com en-us Jayanthi Daniel http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2008/02/and-it-all-almost-ends-with.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2008/02/and-it-all-almost-ends-with.html Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:06:00 EST New York's Fall 2008 Fashion Week is so over, save for one of the new-traditional grand finales: the final runway show for contestants of Bravo's "Project Runway." There are usually three final contestants in the last episode, and Bravo will send a fourth designer's collection down as a decoy. This year, five designers showed on Friday: Who knows what Bravo has up its ruched, puffy sleeve this season as far as finalists, but the collections themselves were impressive, and to see all-out couture Rebecca Thomas http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2008/01/harlem-blues.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2008/01/harlem-blues.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:32:20 EST Before "Love Jones" (1997), the late 1990s urban romance that made reciting your notebook of weepy verse at spoken word nights a must-do, there was "Carmen Jones" (1954), perhaps among the first major motion pictures to capture black love onscreen. Director Otto Preminger's take on Bizet's opera "Carmen" was retooled and relocated to 1950s Harlem. The action begins on a Southern military base, where Joe, played by a young and strapping Harry Belafonte, falls hard for Carmen, the feisty young Jayanthi Daniel http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2008/01/when-chocolate-dreams-come-true.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2008/01/when-chocolate-dreams-come-true.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:31:00 EST The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park Wednesday held a preview for the Chocolate Bar, the hotel's annual month-long buffet serving chocoholics citywide. Each February, pastry chef Laurent Richard creates a menu of numerous chocolate confections — including pastries, mousses, cakes, cookies, and candies — and serves them buffet-style atop a chocolate structure. This year, the desserts will be served on a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge (complete with chocolate cars), and the venue — the hotel's Rise bar Gabrielle Birkner http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/while-youre-returning-gifts.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/while-youre-returning-gifts.html Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:34:20 EST At this time of year, visitors to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, between 38th and 39th streets, are likely to take in the decorative holiday windows — or to take back holiday gifts that were perhaps a little too snug. But in his "Abroad in New York" column in Thursday's edition of the Sun, architecture critic Francis Morrone urges shoppers to take a look at the remarkable landmark structure that is home to the famed store, which was founded as a Lower East Side dry-goods shop in 1826 Gabrielle Birkner http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/good-for-everyone.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/good-for-everyone.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:48:39 EST These days, jokes about Jews spending Christmas at movie theaters and Chinese restaurants are so clichι they barely draw groans. For real laughs, though, on the night before "the night before Christmas," there's "Good for the Jews," a performance of sardonic and (sometimes) bawdy-to-the-point-of-cringe-inducing ditties by Rob Tannenbaum, who starred in the VH1 special "So Jewtastic," and David Fagin, the lead vocalist of the band the Rosenbergs. This show marks the culmination of the duo's Jayanthi Daniel http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/straddling-the-culinary-border-on.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/straddling-the-culinary-border-on.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:02:00 EST First and First — where the next Zadie Smith might indeed be found — also happens to be a key address for the entire Lower East Side, as it serves as a bridge between that neighborhood and the East Village. After the young teens reading at the Lower East Side Girls Club, the literary-minded-turned-hungry can straddle East Houston Street as if it were the Mason-Dixon Line, eating on both sides of the border. Gabrielle Hamilton has long been at the helm of Prune, a tiny neighborhood favorite that Rebecca Thomas http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/red-the-book-by-and-for-teenage.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/moveable-salon/2007/12/red-the-book-by-and-for-teenage.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:54:00 EST For an adolescent girl living out the days of her life on Facebook and MySpace, having your trials and tribulations anthologized for print might seem counterintuitive. But author Amy Goldwasser signed up 58 writers eager to report back from the wilds of teendom. And it's not all pining for the next issue of Teen Vogue. A selection of the young scribes gathers tonight at the Lower East Side Girls Club to read from the newly published "Red: The Next Generation of American Writers — Teenage Girls