Entries from September 2007

4 September 2007

The Lone Ranger

Lily is now our Greenwich Village Correspondent! She writes from a place where cocktails are poured at five and frail women smoke Marlboros inside. In this Greenwich Village, there’s always a good chance that a glass of flat tonic will be mistaken for tap water in the morning. Dashing men in brass-buttoned [...]

1 September 2007

Your Being, Watched

In the East Village, there’s a preschool called “Children’s Liberation.”
I lack just about any maternal impulse, and I am also consciously in favor of youth empowerment, but I do not think that “liberation” is ever something I will want for my toddler, especially on the block of 1st Avenue below East 9th Street.
The things I [...]