Photo: David Behl/Courtesy of Yoko Ono
NYTimes: “John Lennon: The New York City Years,” an exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC in SoHo, provides a glimpse of the nine years the artist lived in the city, from 1971 until his death in 1980.
Photo: Uwe Walter
Book #13 from The Infinite Library project with Daniel Gustav Cramer
Neue Nationalgalerie
5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin 2008
"The Infinite Library is an ongoing project by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris
Epaminonda. It is primarily an expanding archive of books, each created out of
pages of one or more found books and bound anew."
www.harisepaminonda.com/
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allow you to put there.
--From The Black Swan
Photo: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press
NYTimes/Michael Schmidt:
Manny Ramirez, the Dodger's All-Star outfielder, was suspended by Major League Baseball on Thursday for violating its performance-enhancing drug testing program. Ramirez said in a statement released by the players’ association that he had been given a medication, not a steroid, that a doctor had recently prescribed him for a personal health issue.“Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy,” Ramirez said. “Under the policy that mistake is now my responsibility. I have been advised not to say anything more for now. I do want to say one other thing: I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons.”
He will be eligible to return July 3.
On most issues, I side with what used to be the center-right, but the GOP is poison to me and many others. Why?Their abandonment of limited government, their absurd spending under Bush, their contempt for civil liberties, their rigid mindset, their hostility to others, their worship of the executive branch, their contempt for judicial checks, their cluelessness with racial minorities and immigrants, their endorsement of torture as an American value, their homophobia, their know-nothing Christianism, and the sheer vileness of their leaders - from the dumb-as-a-post Steele to the brittle, money-grubbing cynic, Coulter and hollow, partisan neo-fascist Hannity.
I'm waiting for the first leading Republican to do to these grandstanding goons what Clinton once did to the extremists in his own ranks: reject them, excoriate them, remind people that they do not have a monopoly on conservatism and that decent right-of-center people actually find their vision repellent. And then to articulate a positive vision for taking this country forward, expanding liberty, exposing corruption, reducing government's burden, unwinding ungovernable empire, and defending civic virtue without going on Jihads against other people's vices.
If today's "conservatives" spent one tenth of the time saying what they were for rather than who they're against, they might get somewhere. But the truth is: whom they hate is their core motivation right now. That's how they define themselves. And as long as they do, Americans will rightly and soundly reject them.
Self-portrait with cut ear: Vincent Van Gogh
Photograph: Roger-Viollet/Rex Features
Van Gogh's Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence
Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Pictured: David Alvarez, one of three actors alternating in the title role of “Billy Elliot,” which received fifteen Tony nominations. Patrick Healy (NYTimes) writes: The Three Billys of “Billy Elliot” nab a joint nomination! These three charming teen-age boys are bound to be all over CBS on the night of the Tonys.
