Hold up a rock where Stieglitz stood

by | Jan 21, 2014 | culture, photo, urbanism

I read in the New Yorker (well, on the New Yorker’s Goings On About Town app) that Giuseppe Penone had installed three life-size and lifelike bronze trees in Madison Square Park and balanced some boulders up in them. The most understated and ecologically minded...

Dude, where's my air filter?

by | Jan 8, 2014 | technology, transportation

Not that long ago, I noticed a not-so-fresh quality to the air inside my car. I couldn’t find any particular source of unfreshness and figured maybe it was time to replace the cabin air filter. I’ve had this car about nine years and I don’t remember...

At Gallery Kayafas, it's about time

by | Jan 6, 2014 | culture, photo

If you haven’t been lately, it’s about time you visited Gallery Kayafas. It’s about time that you visited because the current shows on view are closing in a bit more than a week. Also, both of the major shows are about time, even more so than the way...

Snowbound? Try Hyperdecanting!

by | Jan 3, 2014 | eating, science!

It was cold. Really really cold. And snowy. So we opened a bottle of wine. Wouldn’t you? Well, it wasn’t a great bottle of wine, sort of young and rough around the edges. But we’d opened it and we weren’t going out for another one. (Yes, there...

Suspiciously simple creamy cauliflower soup

by | Dec 22, 2013 | eating

The scene: a solstice party. A guest interrogates the host about the soup. “I love this soup! What’s in it?” “Cauliflower, mostly.” “And potatoes?” “No, just cauliflower, broth, garlic, olive oil, rice, and some...

Halloween Kit Kat? Give me a break

by | Nov 7, 2013 | design, eating

It’s the week after Halloween, and that means tons of leftover candy. Especially since it’s the stuff you couldn’t palm off on the young extortionists in costume, I usually don’t pay much attention. But this week, somebody left a bunch of Kit...