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In the News: Michelle Obama Lunched at Nobu Today
••• Michelle Obama lunched at Nobu today, and then went to 140 Franklin, if the ill-fitting suits outside were any indication. (Steph Seibel chastised me for editing out “AND her DSL lips” in my retweet, which I did for space and redundancy reasons, if DSL still means what I think it does. Yep, it does.) UPDATE: “I’m still thinking about this post one day later so I guess I should just get it off my chest,” emailed a reader. “Like David Imber, in his first comment, I’m no pearl-clutcher and fully support a private citizens’s right to tweet or post what they choose. I just found the use of ‘DSL lips’ not only redundant but extremely vulgar, and tinged with racist and sexist under (over?) tones. I don’t expect your site to become a gathering place for referendums on civility or race and sexual politics but I just felt compelled to share my thoughts with you.” Here’s what I replied: “I actually agree with you—I was saying as much to Adam last night. I wasn’t sure how to handle it. The tweet was the best proof that it was true that Mrs. Obama was at Nobu, and I believe in giving credit whenever possible (that tweet was how I learned about it). I could’ve blacked out the crass part, but it seemed like an unkind move to use someone’s tweet and smack them at the same time. So I ran it. P.S. That the tweet was from a woman made it even weirder, no?”
••• Before the 9/11 Museum opens on May 21, “The fencing will come down around much of the Memorial Plaza [….] Pedestrians will be able to cross West Street at street level between the World Trade Center site and Battery Park City. Pedestrians will also be able to walk along Liberty Street, all the way from Broadway to West Street. Fulton Street from Broadway, however, will remain closed.” —Tribeca Trib
••• Soho Rep’s An Octoroon gets a rave from the New York Times.
In advance of the National September 11 Memorial Museum’s ceremonial opening on May 21, the fencing will come down around much of the Memorial Plaza, making for easy access to the site and the lines of visitors at airport-like security a thing of the past.
And for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001, pedestrians will be able to cross West Street at street level between the World Trade Center site and Battery Park City.
Pedestrians will also be able to walk along Liberty Street, all the way from Broadway to West Street. Fulton Street from Broadway, however, will remain closed.
– See more at: http://tribecatrib.com/content/fences-coming-down-around-memorial-plaza-world-trade-center#sthash.lamdIL7h.dpuf
In advance of the National September 11 Memorial Museum’s ceremonial opening on May 21, the fencing will come down around much of the Memorial Plaza, making for easy access to the site and the lines of visitors at airport-like security a thing of the past.
And for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001, pedestrians will be able to cross West Street at street level between the World Trade Center site and Battery Park City.
Pedestrians will also be able to walk along Liberty Street, all the way from Broadway to West Street. Fulton Street from Broadway, however, will remain closed.
– See more at: http://tribecatrib.com/content/fences-coming-down-around-memorial-plaza-world-trade-center#sthash.lamdIL7h.dpuf
••• “According to public records, [costume designer William Ivey Long] owes $59,198 in property taxes on the Tribeca condo that houses his design studio. He owes another $43,002 to the IRS.” —New York Post
••• “Tribeca’s Greenwich Street Is Losing the ‘Friends’ Who Kept It Green.” —Tribeca Trib
••• SoulCycle bans other fitness companies’ instructors from taking its classes, as Joey Gonzalez of Barry’s Bootcamp attests. —Well + Good
••• “A coalition of elected officials and labor leaders […] is teaming up to formulate plans for a monument that will honor responders and survivors made ill by exposure to toxins at Ground Zero, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.” —Broadsheet
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Neither am I on grammar patrol, nor do I hold much sacred, but I do agree that common civility toward the president’s family is, generally speaking, in order. As is grammatical proficiency. Most people, regardless of what you think of them, are more than their ability to carry out ordinary mammalian functions, no? I think editing the original tweet gave us the news of interest without the dross.
In the interest of full disclosure I once recounted a story of completely inadvertently entering into conversation with Lauren Bacall, whom I adore, at Dean and De Luca. I was shocked by the chance encounter and commented later to a friend, privately, that the “lips that blew Bogey” spoke to me. So I suppose that I’m guilty of a similar diminution of an individual’s achievements. Similar, but uttered in admiration.
I love this comment.
All visitors and baggage go through security screening at the 911 memorial now. According to the article when the fences are gone this screening will stop. Why was the screening done for all these years In the first place if there is no need for it?
really? DSL lips? such low hanging fruit…
Perhaps, you could have done without the proof that Michelle Obama was at Nobu. How many of your readers are going to think you were making it up? Sadly, I find the article very distasteful.