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New York City strip club, 1949.
(Photo by Burt Glinn via Slate)
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Basically, there’s a service charge, so everyone gets an hourly rate, which is fantastic because that means the kitchen all get more money, paid vacation—all these other benefits come from that. Then, if people leave any money on top of that, which they normally do, the head server keeps half of it and the other half goes in the tip pool. So the captains will fight over the people that are ballers and spend a lot of money. The more senior captains can make anywhere from $6,000 to $10,000 a night. That’s very rare, like once every two years. But there was a private party where these people left like $8,000 as a tip, so the captain walked with $4,000.
Workplace Confidential - The Per Se Waiter — New York Magazine
A tiny morsel of high-end dining reality. Reading about the $4000 tip reminded me, somehow, of a scene in Judy Blume’s Then Again Maybe I Won’t wherein the protagonist leaves a bunch of pennies at the bottom of an unfinished milkshake glass as a tip for the waitress he hates.
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you see Smith spitting, cursing, and telling an early audience: “Don’t be afraid of me. I’m just a nice little girl.
The Mother Courage of Rock by Luc Sante | The New York Review of Books
An overview of Patti Smith’s career as poet, musician and irresistible animal of a woman.
Posted on January 24, 2012 with 3 notes
Source: nybooks.com
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Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen.
One night, Ms. Sumasar was pulled over by the police. Before she could speak, detectives slapped handcuffs on her. “You know you did it,” she said one later shouted at her. “Just admit it.”
A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns - NYTimes.com
This is simultaneously scary and delightful. Truth? If a hot guy executed such a fucked up, elaborate plot it would make me swoon. But I’d just admire from afar because no one needs this kind of shit in their lives.
Seriously, read the whole article. Hollywood will come a-knocking and turn this into an insipid erotic thriller.
Posted on August 16, 2011 with 8 notes
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With the first collapse, amid the senseless snuffing of all those lives and all the rest of the sickening loss, I registered a faint pop within, as everything I’d been filling my head with this last, banner year snapped away like an idle minute’s daydream.
“There goes your novel,” my father said, in a dry little voice I recognized anew.
The Millions : The Year of Wonders
Author Alex Shakar had a novel that was released the week after 9/11/2001. He recounts his experience of nursing this book from publishers’ bidding to how the hot anticipation fizzled in the wake of 9/11.
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But, behind the scenes, it was really about a Republican Party reckoning with a profoundly changing power dynamic, where Wall Street donors and gay-rights advocates demonstrated more might and muscle than a Roman Catholic hierarchy and an ineffective opposition.
And it was about a Democratic governor, himself a Catholic, who used the force of his personality and relentlessly strategic mind to persuade conflicted lawmakers to take a historic leap.
The Road to Gay Marriage in New York - NYTimes.com
How the gay marriage legislation came together in the state of New York. Keep in mind this sort of social engineering and lobbying happens for shitty, harmful causes as well as important and necessary ones such as gay marriage.
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Anna Wintour walking in New York always looks a little lonely.
(Photo via Jak & Jil)
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Papaya King’s dogs start at $2.25, while the basic chili dog at Pink’s begins at $3.45 and goes up from there. And because Los Angeles, like New York, is always on the hunt for the next new thing, there has always been something of a fascination with New York here.
“Anything imported from New York, it’s going to have that hipster vibe,” Ms. Kleiman said. “In L.A., there’s always room for a visible, iconic place that has a lot of expatriate attachment to it.”
New York’s Papaya King Makes Its Hollywood Debut - NYTimes.com
This is one East Coast vs. West Coast battle that’s not gonna get any rappers shot.
I can’t imagine eating Papaya King outside of New York. Well, I’m more of a Grey’s Papaya gal. Regardless, ducking into one of these hot dog shops and scarfing down a recession special while standing then rushing on your way just feels New York to me. You can have the dogs and the fruit drinks, but if you take it outside the bustle of a giant metropolis, it’s not the same.
Pink’s is a dialectic opposite of the New York hot dog experience. You often spend a good chunk of time in line, progressing along a velvet rope at a tortoise’s pace, while rubbernecking for celebrities and contemplating the rather large menu. Then you end up on the back patio, which is like a seal colony of chubby, pasty white tourists and borderline mano/anorexic spray tan Hollywood lookers practicing DIPE. I do like the quintessential chili dog from Pink’s but it’s a thing you can’t detach from the experience just like the Papaya King dogs. My favorite at Pinks, though, is Lord of the Rings, a hot dog topped with onion rings smothered in BBQ sauce.
Posted on June 10, 2011 with 1 note
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Man's Twitter followers recover stolen laptop - Technology & science - Security - msnbc.com
A laptop security software and 12k followers on Twitter equals a successful ad hoc sting operation to recover a stolen laptop and bag.
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You can let your guard down — people are sitting down and talking and using their laptops,” said Capt. Mark DiPaolo of the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn Heights, home to a Court Street Starbucks that has been the scene of four bag thefts this year. “It is a comfort zone that people have.
Here Comes Your Starbucks Latte - There Goes Your Laptop - NYTimes.com
Holy crimewave! FOUR bag thefts in 4 full months! Granted this was published before Osama bin Someone getting shot in the face, the NY Times decided to dedicate column inches on coffee shop theft and NYPD decided to put plainclothes officers (one named “Lt. Hollywood”, not kidding!) in cafes to combat theft.
Does Social Darwinism not dictate idiots who leave their belongings unattended shall lose them? Isn’t New York the most Social Darwinist city in the world? Do people no longer get the “The city will eat you alive!!” warning when they announce their move to NYC?
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