David Horvitz via ARTINFO (read more here, with slideshow and autoplay video)
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Limited edition Nick Cave HEARD•NY MetroCards are in machines starting today! Did you get one? Which station? Post a picture of you with yours and tag it #IHEARDNY.
Artist Nick Cave’s HEARD•NY will transform NYC’s Grand Central Terminal March 25–31. Learn more.
The Nick Cave HEARD•NY MetroCards are here!
Why is NYC the greatest city in the world?
“Where to begin? See Shakespeare in the Park; see Jeter in the Bronx. Take in a matinee at 2pm; take out pizza at 4am. Found a new start-up; find an old mom-and-pop shop. Cheer the Knicks at MSG; cheer the Nets at Barclays. Catch Puccini at the Met; catch Da Vinci at the Met; catch Santana at the Mets. Eat Grimaldi’s after Brooklyn Bridge Park; eat Nathan’s after the Cyclone (definitely not before). Watch the US Open in the summer; watch the Super Bowl in the winter (next year!). Get a free ferry to Staten Island; get free advice in 200 different languages (I hear a lot of it). We are the most diverse and dynamic city on the planet—with record-safe streets and 440 bike-lane miles; 852 museums and galleries; 24,000 (smoke-free) restaurants; 29,000 parkland acres; a record 3.9 million jobs; 8.4 million residents; and 1 grateful mayor.”—Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Awkward Moment of the Day
What we have here is a very unfortunate newspaper headline with an ill-placed image of a grapefruit slice that is supposed to resemble “G,” but it fails miserably. As seen on the cover page of Food section in a recent issue of the Minnesota daily newspaper Mankato Free Press, courtesy of the graphics department.
Good Parenting: Exhibit 1 (overheard at work today)
| 6-year old: | Mommy, why is that man dressed like a lady? |
| Mother: | That is a lady. She was just born with the wrong body. |
| 6-year old: | How did that happen? |
| Mother: | Nobody really knows. But she's working to fix it, and that's what's important. |
| 6-year old: | Okay! *runs up to obviously self-conscious woman* |
| 6-year old: | Hey! Miss! |
| Lady: | ...yes? |
| 6-year old: | You look really pretty in your skirt! |
| Lady: | Thank you! |
| *Kid skips back to her mom, and literally everyone in the vicinity smiles* | |
| I'd just like to point out that it wasn't hard to explain this to a child at all...... Next excuse please? |
Stevie Wonder: ‘I never thought of being blind and black as a disadvantage’
He has survived car crashes, death threats and 50 years in the music industry. Ahead of his Bestival show, the soul legend talks about Motown, Jacko and Winehouse
