Monthly Archives: March 2008
The $4,300 Question
I don’t want to be overly indelicate, so I’ll keep this brief, but someone has to ask (and I guess it will be me) the $4,300 question that no one is asking about the Eliot Spitzer-Emperor Club brouhaha: What, exactly, does $4,300 buy?
“Good food ends with good talk”: Some good talk about Francisco’s food
Since 2005, Francisco has been nurturing his lifelong passion for cooking by working as a private chef. Offering cooking classes, meals, and presiding over the kitchen at special events in New York City, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Mexico City, he has learned the truism of Geoffrey Neighbors’s quote: “Good food ends with good talk.” … Continue reading
How NOW?: Some thoughts on the increasing irrelevance of American feminism
As if the usual mud-slinging of American politics isn’t distressing enough, a bizarre strain of thinking has begun to influence our already schizophrenic national conversation about the 2008 presidential race. What’s particularly bothersome to me about this emerging ideology is that it comes from a group of people with whom I was once proud to … Continue reading
The World That Made New Orleans
Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music, has just published a new book, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square. We met Sublette, who describes himself as an independent scholar, at Bebo Valdes’s 2006 concert at Lincoln Center, and I don’t think you could find anyone who’s more passionate … Continue reading