by David | Nov 24, 2007 | culture, eating
This might be the beginning of a new post-thanksgiving tradition. On this year’s black Friday, I met N for dim sum at Dim Sum Go Go near City Hall. DSGG has a funky mod color scheme, cartless service and quality generally a cut above that on offer at the giant...
by David | Nov 22, 2007 | culture, eating
by David | Nov 16, 2007 | culture, eating, media, photo, travel
Last night I attended an excellent photo lecture by Andrea Robbins and Max Becher sponsored by the Photographic Resource Center in affiliation with the New Center for Arts and Culture at the BU Photonics Center. (Photonics Center?? What goes on at such a place?) And...
by David | Nov 11, 2007 | culture, eating, media, technology
As we approach Thanksgiving season, there’s much talk of poultry, from the traditionally pardoned presidential turkey to the migration of Canada Geese to the ever trendy and and labor-intensive turducken to that excellent low-cholesterol portmanteau, torfurkey....
by David | Oct 27, 2007 | culture, travel
In retrospect, I should have known this was going to be a tough trip when, at 2am on the Champs-Élysées, three witches joined the taxi queue behind me. Eighteen hours later, I was eating dinner in a Greek restaurant in Brussels. Now, a further 12 hours into the...
by David | Oct 17, 2007 | culture
This seemingly innocent bit in the New York Times today set me off on a strange journey. It’s about the (long-overdue, IMO) installation of some compass rose directional signs on the sidewalk outside of subway stations in New York, to help people orient themselves. I...
