Following a series of adoring festival appearances around Europe and Australia last year, the best Britpop band not named Blur will make their first U.S. appearance since 1998 at Radio City Music Hall this spring! Pulp, who broke up in 2002 and reunited in 2011, will play Radio City on April 11th , along with a handful of other U.S. dates. And between Occupy Wall Street and stories of fat cat frat parties , what better time to break out into a sweaty singalong of the classic “Common People.” [ more › ]
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Do You Remember The First Time: Pulp Playing Radio City Music Hall!
T Magazine blog The Moment is running photos of Hotel Pelirocco, an English lodging where a former Marc Jacobs designer used 11 pounds of yarn to clad one of the guest rooms. Pretty rad, and overall tamer and much more manicured than the thoroughly crocheted apartment that Polish artist Olek debuted in NYC this spring. [The Moment; previously ]
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Recently those crazy cats over at Design Observer asked some architects to rethink popular children’s fairy tales in terms of their built structures. For NYC-based firm Guy Nordenson and Associates, the story in question was the Brothers Grimm (and most famous) version of Rapunzel; in particular, its “tower that stood in a forest and had neither a door nor a stairway, but only a tiny little window at the very top.” When asked about the key structural elements, the architects responded, “We were able to meet the Grimms’ strict design requirements by employing a slender tower design of vertical cylindrical stems that are joined by intermittent outrigger beams with a reinforced space at the very top for Rapunzel’s long captivity.” It’ll only be a matter of time before the architects themselves are drawn into the proposal; until then, see the full Rapunzel rendering below. Sketch via Design Obvserver Sketch via Design Observer · House on Chicken Feet, Part 3 [Design Observer via Architizer ] · Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, and FLW Now Star in Classic Fairytale [Curbed National]
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Architecture: Behold the Architect-Designed Version of Rapunzel’s Tower
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Philadelphia, Pa. Price: $1,285,000 The Skinny: Nestled above the dense thicket of Wissahickon Creek, the estate known as Spring Creek once inspired the poet Edgar Allen Poe to pen his famous essay “Morning on the Wissahiccon,” in which he bemoaned the herd mentality of early tourism. Built by Philly’s famous Rittenhouse family in 1730, the house itself was updated throughout the 19th-century and hosted lavish Centennial parties under the direction of then-owner and Ambassador to Britain John Welsh, who raised the interest and funds necessary to finance the 1876 festivities. Noted Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, trained under Louis Sullivan, designed many of the expansions, save for the recent addition of a modern kitchen, updated bathrooms, and central air. Offered for $1.285M, Spring Creek measures 7,500 square feet and sits on 1.62 acres, a far cry from the hundreds of acres the Rittenhouse family once owned along the Wissahickon. · 6700 Wissahickon Ave [Realtor.com]
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House of the Day: Where Edgar Allen Poe Wrote "Morning on the Wissahiccon"
Click here to view the full photogallery. Some smartypants brainiacs at the Preservation Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design have turned man-of-the-hour Ryan Gosling into a champion for the cause. In a brand-new Tumblr entitled Preservationist Ryan Gosling, the bedroom-eyed actor voices all manners of strong opinions on historic architecture and not tearing it down while managing to hit on you with the “Hey Girl” meme. Already the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has seen it and had a nice little chuckle. Have a look. · Preservationist Ryan Gosling [official site via @smheffern ] · National Trust for Historic Preservation [Facebook]
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Website of the Day: Website of the Day: Preservationist Ryan Gosling
Bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan, telling supporters to “set up an operations room that follows up events and works in parallel … to save the people that are struggling to bring down their tyrants.” [ more › ]
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Bin Laden, In Posthumous Tape, Declares "Winds Of Change" After Arab Spring
Spring means that flowers bloom, little forest animals have sex, and colleges slap the Bud Lights out of our nation’s 22 year olds’ hands and tell them to get a job. Each year we’re bombarded with coverage on how terrible it is to be young, educated and full of endless vitality. Last year, the American Dream for this demographic was declared dead. This year, they’re dancing on its grave from their parents’ couch : 85% of grads are expected to move back into their childhood homes, the Post reports. [ more › ]
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Is It The Job Market Or Mom’s Scones? 85% Of Grads Move Back Home
Spring isn’t just about pretty flowers , warm weather , and outdoor dining . It is also, apparently, when New Yorkers like to kvetch about restaurants stealing their change. Last year there was the guy moaning about a neighborhood bistro stealing four of his pennies and this year we’ve got another gentleman complaining , to the Department of Consumer Affairs no less, about an East Village joint stealing his four pennies. Why can’t these penny pinchers understand that restaurants in this modern era we live in just don’t like making change? [ more › ]
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Restaurants Keep Stealing Our Pennies!
Yesterday evening a Brooklyn woman threw sulfuric acid at a 59-year-old man, severely burning both her victim and herself in the process . After the attack the two were treated at the burn unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital with second- and third-degree burns. [ more › ]
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Brooklyn Acid Attack Sends Attacker And Victim To Hospital
This spring CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice was supposed to award an honorary degree to the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner . But that plan has been tabled by the CUNY Board of Trustees after one member expressed concerns over anti-Israel beliefs he believed that Kushner had espoused, the Jewish Week reports . [ more › ]
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CUNY Nixes Tony Kushner’s Degree Over Anti-Israel Rhetoric