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Cosi

By alex | Published: 11/17/2006
Went to see City Opera’s Cosi fan tutte tonight (you know, the version without Natalie Portman). The 85 year-old Rudel, the original director of the NYC Opera, has returned to direct a short run of the familiar opera, and the house was packed. We had a great pair of seats, with thanks to the anonymous […]
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1 and 1 Hosting Sucks

By alex | Published: 7/11/2005
I’ve already complained about this once (1 & 1 equals 0), but it’s my blog so I get to again. If 1and1sucks.com wasn’t being squatted, I’d set up a site just so everyone would have a central location to complain about this company. I just got a letter in the mail from a collections agency, […]
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Muji

By alex | Published: 12/18/2004
Kevin Kelly’s always-interesting Cool Tools has a blurb on Muji, the “no mark” shop. I fell in love with Muji’s Yokohama shop a decade ago, and was surprised to notice a large number of Muji bags being carried around central London a few months back. I like Muji’s stuff for a couple reasons. I like […]
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Zatoichi & Bombay Dreams

By alex | Published: 7/27/2004
Last weekend, I had the chance to see a Broadway show in the guise of a movie and a movie that cries out to be made into a Broadway show. On Friday, after a visit to a local churrascaria, Jamie and I went to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new Bombay Dreams. The premise is simple […]
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