How to Be the Photograph
There was reason to expect some personal revelations when the musician and writer Patti Smith took the stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a Friday evening in early December. She was there to talk about Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer and indefatigable promoter of modern art whom O’Keeffe married in 1924. An exhibition upstairs in the Tisch Galleries—showcasing the works of art that O’Keeffe had selected from Stieglitz’s private collection and given to the Met in 1949, including some of his erotic photographic portraits of O’Keeffe herself—was the immediate occasion for Smith’s appearance, along with the publication of the first volume of letters by O’Keeffe and Stieglitz, which Smith carried onto the stage like a bible, festooned with yellow Post-it notes.
Book Review: The Red Market
Carney, Scott M. The Red Market: On the trail of the world’s organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers and child traffickers. William Morrow, 2011.
The first urban legend that I ever heard was about a bathtub filled with ice and two missing kidneys. In the 40 years since, I have never met anyone who lost their body parts after a night of drinking, even though the demand for them is higher now than at any other time in history.
In his new book, The Red Market, investigative reporter Scott Carney shows that besides kidneys, spare parts in high demand include the heart, liver, ligaments, corneas, plasma, ova, and hair. Whole bodies are needed for the adoption and medical cadaver industries. Ec
01.19.12 by Joshua GoldfinchRevisiting Istanbul Grill
I am pretty sure the $3.99 price tag for Istanbul Grill‘s wonderful lamacun (pronounced “llama-zhoon” in Turkish) represents one of the better dining deals in town. The young staffers in their evil-eye t-shirts may insist to you that it’s “little” or “just an appetizer,” but this pizza-like flatbread spread with a ground-lamb mixture makes one of my favorite light meals in town.
01.16.12 by Joshua GoldfinchStyle Network Picks Up #1 New Docu-Series “Tia & Tamera” for Second Season
After setting numerous ratings records its first five weeks on the air, The Style Network announced the pick-up of its summer breakout hit series “Tia & Tamera,” starring Tia Mowry Hardict and Tamera Mowry-Housley, for a second season. The premiere on August 8 was Style’s most-watched series launch, averaging over 750,000 Total Viewers, and the second week shattered the previous week’s record by becoming the network’s most-watched telecast ever with 920,000 Total Viewers. Production on the second season is slated to begin later this year.
“We are excited to continue following Tia and Tamera’s journeys both personally and professionally,” said Salaam Coleman Smith, President, The Style Network. “Being a part o
01.12.12 by Jesse AlsopEXCLUSIVE CLIP: Angela Bassett and Loretta Devine Reunite In ‘Jumping The Broom’
A true reunion is in full swing when two of ‘Waiting to Exhale’s favorite divas — Angela Bassett and Loretta Devine – come together during an early scene of the Bishop T.D. Jakes-produced romantic comedy, ‘Jumping The Broom,’ which hits theaters May 6. In the film — directed by Salim Akil (‘Girlfriends,”The Game’), Paula Patton plays a well-to-do corporate executive who has had no luck finding the right man. Laz Alonso‘s sharp and debonair Brooklynite-turned-Wall Street VP may be the answers to her prayers — literally (she made a promise to God to not sleep with another man until she’s married). Read more…