This week’s issue of the New Yorker features Rebecca Mead’s profile of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. The story deals at length with “the man, the plan, the arena.” I reported on Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal (see The Arena and Atlantic Avenue, 3/4/05) last summer for a lengthy Columbia project.
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On Sundays in June, the Discovery Channel will air a seven-hour series called Great American that whittles down a list of 100 to a single greatest countryperson.
On the list: Donald Trump. Check out the post over at BCBeat.
Discovery’s show is actually an Americanized version of The Greatest Briton. The BBC show selected, as you [...]

The piece of cake pictured at right is quite possibly my favorite dessert food: red velvet cake. Nobody makes it better than Cake Man Raven, whose tiny shop is one of the best things about my neighborhood.
Today, the New York Times (link) profiled this truly towering figure, a man will be forever enshrined [...]

Jennifer 8. Lee writes in today’s New York Times about “The Man Date,”, “two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman.”