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Latham Thomas and Mary Ann Zoellner & Alicia Ybarbo Founder of Mama Glow and NBC Today Show producers (respectively) 2:00 PM - A Healthy & Happy Mom - The Journey From Pregnancy To New Parent Latham Thomas will share what pregnant women can do to stay healthy and fit. Zoellner and Ybarbo, the authors of Today’s Moms, will address the common transitional challenges—from sleep to friendship—that new moms face.

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Last summer, the Upper East Side was terrorized by several different perpetrators of sexual assaults, and early last week, a man arrested for two of those crimes pleaded guilty to rape and sexual abuse.

Jason Quinones, 22, who was 21 at the time of the attacks, admitted to raping a woman in her East 90th Street home last August. He climbed through the window of her ground floor apartment at 4:30 a.m. while she slept, grabbed her cell phone to keep her from calling the police and raped her.

Quinones was arrested several days later based on DNA evidence left at the scene, and was later charged with another sexual assault that had taken place in July on East 83rd Street. He told prosecutors that he approached his first victim from behind in her building and forced her into her apartment, where he pushed her onto a couch and sexually abused her.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance admonished Quinones for committing “atrocious sex crimes.”

“In both cases, he saw a chance to sexually assault a woman while she was vulnerable, and both times, he took it,” Vance said.

Quinones is scheduled to be sentenced June 20 and could face up to 25 years for the class B felony rape conviction, as well as up to 7 years for the sexual abuse conviction.

SLA hITS EAST SIDE RESTAURANT WhERE IT hURTS Local activists are finding creative ways to push back against rogue food delivery cyclists who flout the laws and endanger pedestrians. After the community rallied against the liquor license application for an Upper East Side Chinese restaurant because it allowed

its delivery men to ride illegal motorized bikes, the State Liquor Authority denied the establishment’s application.

The New York Post reported on the hearing in Albany last week for Adam’s Chinese Restaurant (which does business as Vicky’s Cottage) on East 91st Street, noting that this is the first time that the SLA has denied a license based on non-alcohol-related issues. When owner Denny Dong told the SLA that he couldn’t control what his delivery men did after they left the restaurant, they didn’t take kindly to the suggestion that he wasn’t responsible for his own workers.

“What else don’t you have control over, your employees selling to underage people?” an SLA official asked, according to the Post. “If you can’t control your employees, we can’t grant a license.”

Community Board 8 has been trying to get the restaurant to comply with traffic laws and prohibit its deliver workers from reckless driving and riding electric bikes, and members have been mulling ways to convince restaurants that the community is serious about cracking down on dangerous biking—a sentiment that the SLA is clearly backing.

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Last week, Upper East Side Rep. Carolyn Maloney joined three Democratic co-sponsors in introducing new federal legislation that would protect pregnant women against unfair job discrimination.

Maloney joined fellow New York City Rep. Jerrold Nadler and two others in presenting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The bill is supported by 119 advocacy groups from across the nation and has 63 original cosigners. The law would require employers to give reasonable working accommodations for pregnant women and prevent employers from forcing these women onto leave, paid or not, when a reasonable adjustment can be made to their workload.

The bill will also relinquish hiring discrimination toward women who are pregnant and in need of certain accommodations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.

“Women need to work during pregnancy and must not be penalized in the workplace for choosing to have a child,” Maloney said. “The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will give women the tools they need to fight ‘maternal profiling’ on the job.”

The bill follows the introduction of a similar measure at the state level from State Sen. Liz Krueger.

“When pregnant women cannot be provided reasonable accommodations at their workplace, they lose wages and opportunities for advancement, their newborns are disadvantaged and both their employers and the economy as a whole suffer unnecessary losses,” Krueger said.

The sponsors of the national bill cite recent examples of pregnant women losing their jobs after asking for minor accommodations, like carrying a water bottle or help with certain physical tasks, as the impetus for creating the protections.

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Lhota said the engineers and workers who are tunneling underground in Queens have encountered serious issues that will set back the construction of the connection.

The project was originally supposed to be finished in 2013, but a change in contractors, loose ground in Queens and a need to keep trains running to meet the demands of a traveling workforce have repeatedly pushed back the completion date.

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Break In, Steal, Repeat From Thursday, May 3 through Saturday, May 6, an unknown criminal broke into 18 different cars in the Upper East Side and stole personal effects ranging from loose papers to GPS devices.

The robberies took place between East 94th and East 98th Streets on Lexington, Park, Madison, Third and Fifth avenues between 4 p.m. and midnight. In each case, the perpetrator would break the driver or passenger’s side window to gain access. A number of the cars were luxury vehicles, most of them Mercedes-Benzes.

Multiple iPods, iPads, phones, glasses and even a hard drive were stolen. No witnesses have been discovered so far to the crimes and the crook remains at large.

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Mother’s Day Break-in Two Upper East Side women who share an apartment left for Mothers Day weekend only to discover that their home was ransacked while they were gone. The crime took place on East 83rd Street and was suspected to have occurred on Saturday, May 12, at about 6:30 p.m. One of the victims returned home from an excursion to find the front door only partially locked. A cursory investigation turned up empty beer

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An Upper East Side man was duped on Craigslist over what he believed to be a good deal on concert ticket. The victim believed that he had found a rare ticket to a sold-out Drake concert on the website.

On Wednesday, May 9, at about 3:30 p.m., the victim met with a black man who was sporting cowboy boots and called himself “Martin Lester.” After the victim handed over $500 for the ticket, the two parted ways. The victim returned home to find several inconsistencies on the ticket. He later called Ticketmaster only to discover that the ticket was faked.

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bottles in the trash, both bedrooms combed through and an I.D. card belonging to a Brooklyn man. The victims were robbed of their MacBooks, a loss valued at $2,000, and one of the women lost a watch valued at $150, while the other was robbed of her camera valued at $350. There were no witnesses to the crime and the crook is still on the loose, despite the ID found at the scene.

A Startling Awakening A late-night traveler took the ride of his life when he hailed a cab and fell asleep in the backseat of the car, only to be awakened by an angry cabbie. After a heated verbal argument over the fare, the victim was attacked by the seething cabbie. The victim was picked up at 1:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 13, at East 6th Street and Sixth Avenue. After he nodded out in the backseat, the cabbie drove the napping rider to East 67th Street off First Avenue.

The cabbie awakened the passenger, who then began to argue about the fare. The victim got out of the car and was followed for four blocks by the cabbie, who finally smashed a glass bottle over the victim’s head. The victim received lacerations to the face and top of the head. The cabbie then returned to his car and fled. The car has been identified as one of the thousands of yellow medallion cabs that roam the streets and the driver was described as a black man in his 40s with a bald head.

Cash Grab A popular chain store on Lexington Avenue in the Upper East Side was a victim of grand larceny by two of its employees. The two women were both managers at the store. Over a period of several months starting in March, the two continually made cash refunds for themselves, embezzling over $82,523 in cash. The company became suspicious when they saw that there were so many cash refunds but no customer receipts to go along with them. The two women stopped showing up to work and a fellow employee reported the crime on Saturday, May 12.

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Trash Talk Mayoral candidates weigh in on East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station

By Jon Lentz Manhattan’s East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station has long divided people into two camps.

Next year it may divide the candidates running for mayor of New York City.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other elected officials who don’t live near the defunct facility on the Upper East Side have pushed to reopen it as a way to haul less garbage by truck, ship more by barge and distribute trash facilities more fairly across the five boroughs.

On the other side of the issue are local lawmakers and community groups worried about noise, pollution and the safety risks of local garbage trucks. They have filed a series of lawsuits to block the planned reopening of the facility, which was closed in 1999.

Some candidates have been openly supportive of the station, which was included in the city’s solid-waste-management plan in 2006. Quinn, the candidate most closely associated with the project, has been a staunch supporter.

Last June she led the Council to allocate capital dollars to build the station after the mayor’s office had decided to postpone the project. She went to thenDeputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and convinced him to provide funding for the station and three others.

“The building of marine transfer stations has been done with community input, and we expect New Yorkers in every neighborhood to come together and do their part,” Robin Levine, a spokeswoman for Quinn, said last year. “In fact, Speaker Quinn’s own district on Manhattan’s West Side will include a transfer station to help ensure the borough is taking full responsibility for its waste.”

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Comptroller John Liu cast votes for the marine transfer station when they were both in the City Council, and neither one has changed his position.

Mike Loughran, a spokesman for Liu, said the city has to make sure it has the necessary infrastructure to meet the growing demand for waste removal.

“This is an issue of borough equity,” Loughran said. “The community has

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every right to be heard on this issue and has even taken their concerns to court.

Comptroller Liu will keep a close eye on this project, as well as the spending associated.”

But among the other Democratic candidates, the positions are less clearcut.

Bill Thompson, who ran against Bloomberg in 2009, said he still had a lot more to learn about the facility and had not yet taken a position. “I’ve had one meeting with the residents and they laid out why they thought it was not a good site and why it was not cost-efficient,” he said.

David Mack, the vice president of Residents for Sane Trash Solutions, said his organization has recently started reaching out to the candidates to make the case for leaving the facility closed.

“We believe that it would be a very important question for all candidates in the primary season, especially given that Speaker Quinn seems to be supporting the construction of the facility,” said Mack.

Perhaps more than any other candidate, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer exemplifies the risks of explicitly supporting or opposing the facility.

The Upper East Side is a key bastion of support for the borough president, so supporting the facility could result in campaign dollars drying up. Opposing it could hurt him in the outer boroughs.

Yet in 2004, then-Assemblyman Stringer was among the lawmakers who criticized the plan, calling on the city to build the waste transfer station in a commercially zoned location somewhere else.

“I’m here today because I believe that siting such a facility is a process ripe with difficulty,” Stringer said at the time.

“While we acknowledge the need for a station, no one desires a waste transfer station in their backyard. They’re right, it does not belong in this backyard, but it also doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard.”

Asked about his stance now, Stringer refused to answer. Josh Getlin, Stringer’s spokesman, declined to say whether the

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“Since becoming borough president in 2006, Stringer has committed his office to working with city agencies to minimize any negative impacts to the Upper East Side and Harlem communities that may result from the construction and ongoing operation of the facility,” Getlin said in a statement.

One of the opponents of the transfer station is Charles Dorego, a senior vice president of Glenwood Management Corp. and a member of the Gracie Point Community Council, another group opposed to the facility. Glenwood owns a number of buildings that face Asphalt Green, the recreational space next to the marine transfer station.

Dorego has also raised $149,900 for Stringer, making him not only the borough president’s biggest campaign bundler but the biggest bundler for any city candidate. But Dorego said his support for the borough president isn’t tied to his views on the marine transfer station.

“I don’t support anybody based on one particular issue or not,” Dorego said.

“I met him personally through this thing years ago, and we’ve become friends since, and I’m a supporter of his. I don’t necessarily tie my support to him to the marine transfer station, because I’m not naive enough to think the borough presi-

dent could stop this plan. He has absolutely no control over it whatsoever. You could talk to the person who lives on 79th Street about that.”

But one longtime observer of the controversy over the marine transfer station said that Stringer has “always been purposefully vague.”

“His thing is always ‘I’ve never wanted to directly oppose the East 91st Street Waste Transfer Station, because I don’t want to alienate communities of color,’ but at the same time he has been willing to smack around the process, how it came about,” the source said. “He’s attacked the process, not the site. So he thinks that gets some goodwill with the community here. He’s basically playing both sides.”

If nothing else, there is digital evidence that offers a hint of where Stringer’s loyalties actually lie: On Facebook, the borough president “likes” Residents for Sane Trash Solutions, the group opposed to the transfer station. jlentz@cityandstateny.com This article first appeared in the May 7, 2012, edition of City&State.

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By Megan Bungeroth An Upper East Side church, simultaneously a site of worship and a lavish event venue, has become a flashpoint of controversy for the Park Avenue neighborhood surrounding it. The Third Church of Christ Scientist, on the corner of Park and East 63rd Street, leases its historic building to the Rose Group, an upscale event production company that has been throwing high-profile events there for the past six years; the building doubles as the venue 583 Park Avenue.

But now that a lengthy court battle initiated by concerned neighbors has ended in the denial of a liquor license to the Rose Group, the owners are grasping for their last resort—a change in state law—in order to keep their business at 583 Park, which they say is the only thing sustaining the church.

The legal troubles began shortly after the Rose Group signed a 20-year lease with the church in 2006. The lease terms specify that the Rose Group pay $250,000 in annual rent as well as 10 percent of the profits from their events, in addition to making costly repairs and paying the building’s property taxes and utilities.

The event company originally obtained the permits to operate based on the legal premise of being an “accessory use” of the church, which has since been challenged, and the latest court decision decreed that the building no longer functions primarily as a church, a decision that some neighbors support but that church members find perplexing. n y pr e s s. c o m

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“It’s obvious those people have never visited us,” said Dora Redman, the clerk and treasurer at the church. “Our services still exist; we’ve never cancelled one.”

While their membership has dwindled over the years, Redman said they still hold Sunday services for around 50 members each week, in addition to Wednesday evening services, Bible study, lectures and conferences that bring crowds in the hundreds. She also confirmed the fact that the church simply cannot afford to operate and maintain the building—the Rose Group said they’ve made $6 million worth of repairs and upgrades to the church— without a revenue-generating tenant.

The characterization of the building as a church matters, because it would grant the Rose Group an exception to the ABC (alcoholic beverage control) law that prohibits the sale of liquor within 200 feet of a school or house of worship—in this case, the Central Presbyterian Church just a block north of 583 Park. Exceptions are given to houses of worship if they themselves sell alcohol as an “accessory use” of the building and the other establishments within 200 feet are doing the same thing and don’t object.

“We made it very clear [what we were doing], we brought it to the community board,” said Louis Rose, the owner of the Rose Group.

“We had the conditionally approved license, we made the deal with the church, we had permission from the buildings department,” said Rose. “We got all the

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permits, we started the work, we tore the whole place apart, the roof had been leaking for a long time, the cornices in the auditorium had been washed away and melted away from water damage. So we had scaffolding, we took everything apart, and the neighbors woke up about it.”

Rose said that the community first objected to 583 Park covering the name of the church during their events, a move that was demanded by the church and approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. From there, community opposition grew louder.

The Department of Buildings rescinded its permits, and the Rose Group sued the city and eventually won when the court found that the city was not treating the church in the same way as surrounding establishments. Meanwhile, however, the conditional liquor license was dependent on getting a certificate of occupancy that they did not have, and the SLA rescinded it.

In 2009, the Rose Group applied for another liquor license. Community Board 8 voted strongly against it, telling the SLA in their resolution that the Rose Group had failed to provide hours of operation and refused to limit the days of use or number of attendees per event, and that the board had heard substantial complaints of noise and traffic problems from neighbors of the largely residential area.

A neighborhood organization called the Preservation Coalition formed to oppose the application, and when it was denied, the Rose Group went back to court.

The state Supreme Court decided in their favor, but the neighbors appealed and won, and the Court of Appeals declined to hear the case. Now the SLA will no longer grant single event licenses to 583 Park, which they had been using for years, and they cannot book new events.

For some neighbors, it’s a long-awaited victory. Phyllis Weisberg, the attorney for the Preservation Coalition, said her clients simply want to maintain their residential community and feel that the events at 583 Park are too disruptive.

“When you have 1,000 people arriving on one night at one location in a residential district, obviously it’s a serious problem,” Weisberg said. “The sidewalk is often blocked; people have to go into Park Avenue, into the street.”

Weisberg said that the group opposing 583 Park has involved several area co-op boards as well as individuals, but would not say who exactly composes the Coalition or pays its legal fees. Rose contends that the opposition is only a small minority and speculates that a real estate interest is behind it, a theory Weisberg

rejected as “nonsense.”

The Rose Group points to their abundant security measures, efforts to curb traffic and noise—they only load and unload in specified zones on the side streets and limit the hours to the daytime—and few complaints to the 19th Precinct as proof they’ve been good neighbors. But others in the community say that’s not the whole story.

“We hear periodic complaints about the operations including noise and traffic, everything you would expect when a quiet church transforms into a catering facility,” said Council Member Dan Garodnick. “The events at the church are of a size and scale that are beyond any of their immediate neighbors.”

He said that he hasn’t heard from the Rose Group in the past few years, but that he had been involved in trying to broker a compromise early on.

“I spent some time, by the way, trying to explore whether there was a way for the community and the Rose Group to operate in harmony before this whole thing took off, but we did not reach any agreements,” Garodnick said.

Rose said they’ve been working with state elected officials and are open to compromise now, although they are still pushing and hoping for a full liquor license.

State Sen. Liz Krueger declined to comment on the issue, but Assembly Member Dan Quart confirmed that he is willing to work with both sides of the dispute.

“If we are to play any role at all, it will be bringing sides together, if a resolution is possible,” Quart said. “My office has certainly been inundated by phone calls, emails and letters from advocates and interested parties on both sides.”

Indeed, the Rose Group has stacks of letters in support of their business enterprise. Rose said that’s because many of their upscale clients’ guest lists are drawn primarily from the community surrounding 583 Park. High-end events like Oscar de la Renta fashion shows and the star-studded Save Venice benefit attract both celebrities and wealthy Upper East Side residents.

“Even people who are against us come to the parties all the time,” said Rose. “It is a remarkable phenomenon.”

Rose said that they’ll apply for a beer and wine license, which has different criteria, if all else fails.

“Maybe 75 percent of our business is charities; they won’t mind the beer, wine, champagne bar. We would certainly survive. I think it would be difficult for weddings, bar mitzvahs, corporate events, holiday parties,” Rose said. “We believe that the building is beautiful; we do not need the liquor. But with that said, it will certainly make us less desirable of an operation.”

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New York’s poorer regions.

MR: There’s only a fraction of the jobs the industry says they’ll create. They tend to be incredibly transient. Cornell did a study last year on what the effects would be, especially in small communities that rely on pristine water and pristine air. A lot of these communities have only agriculture and tourism to support them. What happens is the community is left worse off after the bust. A few people end up making a lot of money. It doesn’t make its way out to the rest of the community. The workers leave. The area is left with less economic diversity.

It kills off other industries. I understand that we’re in bad times. The other thing that’s interesting to point out is the fastest growing job sector right now in the United States, at 10–18 percent a year, is the green sector, or the renewable energy sector.

warding part of your activism on this issue to date?

MR: I have to say what I wrote when this first started happening, in my local newspaper. The title of it was called “Thank God for Hydrofracking.” And people thought that was a crazy thing. What I

CS: Where did you go?

MR: I went to Dimock, Pa. It wasn’t really to find anything wrong. It was just to see what was going on. But in a room of 40 people, it became clear to me that these people were under siege in their life, and the American dream was betrayed. What about the EPA? The EPA wouldn’t allow something like this to happen. Well, this isn’t regulated by the EPA, really. Well, what about the DEP? Well, they’ve pretty much turned their back on us. What about your attorney general? They’re not interested. There were victims there, and basically they were being told they were lying. You had these Americans who obviously had a problem, and everybody turned their backs on them. I didn’t want to get involved, honestly. But if I am who I say—I care about people and I care about injustice—then I realized this is coming to my community, where there are people that I love and I care for, and it can’t happen like this.

CS: In your experience, are people aware of the hydrofracking issue?

MR: When I started three years ago, I just thought, There’s no way. We’re done for.

We have the biggest industries in the world; we have Exxon Mobil and Chesapeake just dumping so much money.

It was a done deal. Thousands of families have reported contamination now.

These people are poor, they’re desperate. When their wells become contaminated, their properties become worthless. They turn to the gas industry, and the gas industry says, “We didn’t contaminate your well, but we will buy you out and give you water if you sign a nondisclosure agreement.” We will never know these people’s stories. You have people in Dimock, and some people in Wyoming now, these mothers whose children have come down with asthma and weird autoimmune-deficiency diseases, whose schools are right next to compressor stations, and they’re getting together and they’re starting to get their stories out. They’re not taking the short money, which is what we’re seeing in Dimock. They’re saying, “No, we’re going to live through this, we’ve been wronged and we’re going to get our stories out.” It’s very different now than it was even a year ago. Fracking is a national issue. There’s a lot of new information coming out, and the longer this goes on, the more we’re going to find out how damning it is.

saw was, and this came from my experiences in Pennsylvania, was that what we were seeing was the quality and character of a community. And we were going to be tested on what we were made of as a community. Were we willing to basically screw our neighbors to make a buck, knowing that there’s a good chance that their well water could be contaminated?

The problem with the whole propertyrights movement around this is that these people are drilling 5,000 feet out from their properties, so they’re drilling into every other property that abuts them for a mile. And now you’ve infringed on my property rights. When that gas and that methane is seeping out of those casings and ending up in my well, you’ve infringed on my property rights.

So the community suffers. What I’m seeing is these incredibly brave people who are really Americans who are standing up for something that’s right, who aren’t selling themselves out for the short money, who have an idea that’s bigger than It’s just me against you, and I’m going to get mine and you can screw off.

CS: But fracking could create jobs in

CS: What has been the most re-

By Jon Lentz In The Avengers movie that opened recently, Mark Ruffalo plays the Incredible Hulk, a creature born from a scientific experiment gone awry who joins a team of superheroes seeking to save the world. The risks of scientific progress and efforts to save the planet are also at play in his real-world battle against hydraulic fracturing, Ruffalo tells City & State.

What follows is an edited transcript.

City & State: How did you become involved in fracking activism?

Mark Ruffalo: I heard about hydrofracking before I moved my family to New York, and I thought it was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. It was going to bring this vibrant new economy to upstate New York. But I also started to hear some questionable things about it.

So I went to the old Internet and started doing some research. At this time, there was very little to learn. The gas industry is very rosy and extremely positive. There were inklings from EPA whistleblowers and people in Wyoming whose homes were filling with gas and were coming up with these neurological disorders from the drinking water. So I decided, “I have to go look at this for myself.”

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CS: Are there similarities between The Avengers and the fight against hydrofracking?

MR: Superheroes have always been the guys that fight for the common good.

That’s what I responded to as a kid. They always fought for the little guy. That’s what this fight is about. If the gas industry was just honest about what they do and how they do it, they wouldn’t

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I am beginning to feel like the only way they can make money is to do it the way they’re doing, to bypass regulations, to lie when contamination happens, to manipulate the markets. Now we’re seeing Aubrey McClendon and Chesapeake and the whole thing of them manipulating the markets and lying to their investors.

If they could do this safely and in a way that was aboveboard, then they would do it. So you have a malicious, malign force out there that’s doing damage and in some way needs to be stopped. And that’s the kind of thing that superheroes come to the rescue to. The superheroes today are my neighbors.

CS: You play the Incredible Hulk, who was created by a freak accident during a bomb test. Does that kind of cautionary tale relate to hydrofracking and its repercussions?

MR: There’s a long line of scientific experiments gone bad in history and in storytelling, and it’s something we go back to all the time. It’s all over the comic books. It’s in our consciousness and our subconscious as a culture. We personify it in our mythologies as superheroes and we live next to it in our lives, such as Fukushima and what’s happening at Dimock. This is a struggle that will continue to go on as we become more desperate for this type of carbon energy. Long gone are the days when we simply stick a straw in the ground and get beautiful concentrated carbon energy percolating to the surface with very little impact to the area around us. Now we’ve entered the era of extreme energy extraction: It’s hydrofracking, it’s deep-sea drilling, it’s mountaintop removal, it’s tar sands.

These are the new norm, and they’re incredibly dangerous, incredibly toxic, and they’re accelerating global warming at an unprecedented rate. And that’s what we’re going to be stuck with. Just like the superhero disasters.

CS: I know you’re in a hurry—and I really don’t want to make you angry and have you turn into the Hulk— but did you have a favorite superhero as a kid?

MR: The Hulk. The TV show was my favorite, with Bill Bixby. I loved that show.

CS: So it’s come full circle?

MR: Yeah. I got lucky. In a lot of ways. jlentz@cityandstateny.com This article first appeared in the May 7, 2012, edition of City&State.

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If You Can’t Hack It, Sell It

Move to change rule requiring individual taxi medallion owners to drive

By Tristan Hallman Taxi driver Erhan Tuncel, 52, bought his yellow taxi medallion 14 years ago.

Once he turns 62, he’ll have to either drive 150 seven-hour shifts per year, or sell the medallion at whatever the market rate is.

Thanks to the city’s “owner must drive” rule, he can’t lease out the medallion to other drivers, potentially robbing him of steady income in his golden years.

“I shouldn’t have to rely on my kids,” he said. “I want to be able to lease my medallion so me and my wife live happily ever after.”

The city Taxi and Limousine Commission contends the “owner must drive” rule keeps alive the dream of individual medallion ownership. But Tuncel and other taxi owners say that the regulation is akin to slavery. They found a champion in one Manhattan city council member, who has taken up their cause over the objections of the commission.

“These are people that have worked hard and long for these medallions and I think we should be sensitive,” said the bill’s author, Upper East Side City Council Member Jessica Lappin.

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Lappin’s bill would waive the ownermust-drive rule for any military veterans who have served in times of war, spouses of deceased medallion owners who inherit

Taxi driver Erhan Tuncel. the medallions and drivers age 62 or older who have driven for at least 10 years.

She has the support of several taxi drivers associations.

“Most people don’t appreciate what it’s like driving a cab,” said Steven Bulatowicz, operations manager of the League of Municipal Taxi Owners. “You’re out there five or six days a week for 12 hours per day. It’s hard.

It’s grueling, grueling work and it takes a toll.”

The rule doesn’t apply to individual medallion owners who have owned their medallions continuously since before 1990, when the rule went into effect.

Some of the grandfathered-in individual drivers have leased their medallions to leasing agents. The leasing agents make a small profit off managing the leases.

David Yassky, a former City Council member and current chair of the Taxi and

Limousine Commission, said at a recent City Council Transportation Committee hearing that eliminating the owner-mustdrive rule would limit the supply of individual medallions and put them in the hands of leasing agents who don’t drive their own taxis.

“We believe very passionately that the owner-driver segment is worth preserving, and we don’t want any rule that will make them disappear,” Yassky said.

About 40 percent of the city’s medallions are for individuals. The rest are corporate medallions, which are bought by companies for fleets.

Tuncel bought his medallion for a little more than $200,000. Medallions now go for about $700,000.

While it appears that Tuncel is in line to make a killing off his investment, he said that’s not the case. He has refinanced the loan on the medallion to replace his vehicles—he needs another new car to replace his 2006 Toyota Sienna in August—and to put his two kids through Dowling College.

He now owes more on his loan than he did when he bought the medallion.

By age 62, he will have driven for 25 years. He believes he has put in enough time behind the wheel.

“If God lets me get to age 62, I want the option to be there,” Tuncel said.

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‘Hottest’ Writers at Hunter College Conference

You’ve been called the “hottest writer of the year” at various points in your career—how has that affected you?

I had a movie that was a very big movie,

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Stir Crazy [in 1980]. And this entertainment attorney, a young kid, said, “Don’t you realize you’re the hottest writer in Hollywood?” I was so deeply offended— that was exactly what I didn’t want to be.

So I moved back to the East Coast, shut off the phone and started to write a novel, which was what I felt I should be doing.

But you also got that mantle for writing the play Scuba Duba in 1968.

Being the so-called hottest playwright is not so bad. You do get better tables in restaurants. You get your—well, it’s more than 15 minutes, actually.

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By Megan Bungeroth In a few weeks, hundreds of writers—the wildly successful (Mary Higgens Clark, Colson Whitehead, Lee Child) and humbly aspiring alike—will descend on Hunter College for the annual Writers’ Conference, an event that brings industry professionals together to work on their craft and discuss the state of the written word. This year, the conference will focus on changes in the publishing world and how writers can and should be adjusting to them. Panels and workshop intensives will cover old standbys like fiction writing and literary agents, as well as self-publishing and the suspense genre.

Bruce Jay Friedman, author most recently of the memoir Lucky Bruce, will sit on the memoir and biography panel at the conference. We talked to the Upper West Sider about his long and thriving career as a novelist, playwright, screenwriter (hits include Splash and the story for The Heartbreak Kid), short story author and, now, memoirist.

Did all the hype around your work ever make you feel pressure about your Bruce Jay next projects?

No, I always had an appointment with that next thing to write. I’d finish a novel and think, why not try a play now? I’d always go back to the short story—that’s what I’m doing now—that was always my anchor.

I think you will hear that if you’ve written a novel, it doesn’t mean you can write

a play; if you’re written a play, it doesn’t mean you can write short stories. I’ve never bought that. To me it’s storytelling, in one form or another. And I’ve gotten away with it so far.

With novels and memoirs, writers often write from their experiences.

How do you navigate writing about real people?

The person you’re worried about slandering is the last person to recognize himself in a book. However, occasionally, as happened to me with my first novel Stern, I was terribly concerned about my boss. I needed the job and I had him as a character, not the most lovable character. I Friedman. disguised him in a million different ways, but still, he was a very smart guy. But he never said a word. The book was published and he gave me a raise.

Then I got in the elevator and a woman I’ve never heard of before gets on. She starts screaming “Why? How could you do that to me?” I’d never met the woman,

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I knew nothing about her. She identified closely with that character and you could not dissuade her.

How did you approach writing your memoir?

The struggle for me was trying to find the right voice—not so much what the book was, but what voice. I’ve got at least half a dozen different voices. Finally I decided to just be me, and then the book was relatively easy [to write].

There is so much pressure on writers now to self-promote their work and find commercial success—how can young writers deal with that?

To the extent that it’s possible, and that I have any advice at all, is to just really get rid of all that and write a wonderful story and let the rest take care of itself. I’m sure Salinger wasn’t thinking of promotional opportunities when he wrote Catcher.

Allen Houston, executive editor of Manhattan Media, will be part of the editor’s panel at the conference. For a full lineup of writers and information on the Writers’ Conference, which runs June 6-9, visit hunter.cuny.edu/ce.

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By Vatisha Smith Sometimes the simplest solutions come from the most direct channels.

Kaisa Levine can attest to that. Her company, Fridababy, sells the Nosefrida and the Windi. Made for babies, both products are manufactured in Sweden and are enjoying increasing popularity in the United States.

The Nosefrida, (otherwise known as the snotsucker) is a non-invasive nose aspirator that removes excess mucus from your child’s nose. The snotsucker has been profiled everywhere from the Rachael Ray Show to the Tonight Show. The Windi is a catheter that relieves babies’ excess gas.

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by Levine and Sarah Perilli.

Levine, originally from Sweden, immigrated to the United Kaisa Levine and her children.

States, married and had children. She and her family take annual plastics,” Levine said. trips to Sweden to visit her family. Ten Levine says her relationship with years ago, during one of those trips, her Nosefrida, the company that manufac6-month-old developed a cold and noth- tures the nose aspirator in Sweden, has ing they tried could relieve his stuffy been smooth sailing, with a slight learnnose. ing curve regarding customs. The Windi, “All of my Swedish friends asked, Fridababy’s most recent product, is “a ‘Why don’t you have a Nosefrida?’ My natural solution to colic, constipation husband frantically ran to the pharmacy and other gas-related problems.” to pick one up, and it saved our trip,” As an entrepreneur, Kaisa has discovLevine said. ered that juggling motherhood requires With the Nosefrida, one end of the a lot of dedication, especially with two unit is placed on the child’s upper lip children ages 10 and 8. directly under the nostril, while the “When you are a mother of young other end containing the sucking mech- children and have your own business, I anism goes into the parent’s mouth. A think it’s important to give each your full long tube connects the two ends. The attention; to be focused on work when airflow causes the mucus to discharge you are at the office, and then to let go of out of the child’s nose without caus- that and focus on the children when you ing discomfort or mess. Levine was so are with them. Trying to type emails at impressed with the contraption that she the same time as helping your kids with brought several back with her to the homework doesn’t really work at all.”

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Europeans have been using the Friends and neighbors began seeking Nosefrida and the Windi for years, but her out to get one of the snotsuckers and now you can get both products from for more information. From that, the idea your nearby pharmacy or sites such a of Fridababy was born.

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By Caroline Birenbaum auction previews worth a visit in the next two weeks include a wealth of latin american art. christie’s

Edited by Armond White

the tightly edited evening session of the latin american sale on May 22 includes engaging paintings and sculptures by Botero, fine paintings by Matta, an atypical abstract stone sculpture of a reclining nude by Zuñiga, Candido portinari’s painting of a slave ship bringing its cargo to Brazil, and a wondrous painted wooden cradle carved by José horna for his baby daughter and exquisitely decorated by leonora Carrington.

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among the Old Master paintings offered June 6 are 11 lots being sold by the Metropolitan Museum of art to benefit the european paintings acquisitions fund; a newly discovered oil sketch of the “adoration of the Magi” by rubens from a private american collection; and Girolamo romanino’s “Christ Carrying the Cross,” restituted this spring to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, whose estate was dispersed by the Vichy government in a forced auction in 1941.

Christie’s: May 22 at 6:30 p.m. and May 23 at 10 a.m., previews May 19-22. June 6 at 5 p.m., previews June 2-5. www.christies.com

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sotheBy’s the american art sale on May 17 features George Bellows’ fabulous 1920 painting “tennis at newport,” edward hopper’s 1939 Central park equestrian scene “Bridle path,” being sold by the San Francisco Museum of Modern art to benefit the acquisitions program, and niles Spencer’s precisionist painting of the Fairmont, West Virginia, glass works, being sold by ny’s MoMa to benefit its acquisitions fund.

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ometimes the best way to get at a culture is to smash it up against a disparate element, or encase it in a seemingly alien time frame, seeing unexpected elements in each, even redefining each. So it is with Art Deco, and Japan, a yoking you never thought of before.

No, there are no Cole Porter photos in Japan Society’s Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945 exhibit, but there’s a marvelous poster of three high-stepping dancers worthy of the Stork Club. A vase with a single “modern” but delicate stem line of willow right down the middle, and with the traditional Japanese emblem of a cicada now highly formalized, blew me away (“Vase with Cicada and Willow Design,” Katori Masahiko, 1931).

All of a sudden, Japanese obsession with perfection seems congruent with Art Deco’s geometrical matrix, a reaction against Art Nouveau. So how come we never knew about this before? For one thing, most of this 200-piece collection is from a private collection, shown through the generosity and collector perspicacity of Robert and Mary Levenson of Clearwater, Fla. (There are also five paintings on loan from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.) Moreover, while we always thought of pre-World War II Japan as exclusively nationalistic, not fun-filled or with an urban aesthetic, the fact is that it was rebuilding, ironically enough from today’s perspective, from an earthquake. The design N Y P r e s s. c o m

an enormous sale of latin american art on May 23 and 24 offers Wifredo lam’s impressive “Ídolo,” diego rivera’s “niña en azul y Blanco” and a lovely yucatan landscape, strong selections of paintings by Francisco toledo, Carlos Mérida and Sarah Grilo, kinetic constructions by Jesús rafael Soto and “physichromes” by Carlos Cruzdiez.

Sotheby’s: May 17 at 10 a.m., preview May 16. May 23 at 7 p.m. and May 24 at 10 a.m., previews May 19-22. www.sothebys.com Doyle K. Kotani, “The Modern Song (Modan bushi),” 1930. Color lithograph, ink on paper, 16 x 20 in. concept of the time? Art Deco.

But let’s get to the heart of the show, or rather you should get to it: the ultimate, breathtakingly beautiful images of Japanese women testing their mettle against the freedom of Western women, or the flapper concept. Watch a Japanese woman working her skis; or two in a sailboat venturing out, yet serene and contemplative in their straightahead gaze. Spotlight on the prima donna of

the exhibit: the Moja, the Japanese flapper, with her lacquered red mouth, her geometrically cut hair. (It was a kick-over-the-traces era there too, with women working, living it up in public, for the first time.) See especially “Tipsy,” a print by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1930), a Moja with a cigarette in one hand and a cocktail before her.

the May 23 auction, Important english & Continental Furniture & decorations, features a pair of floral still life paintings by JeanBaptiste Monnoyer and a superb silver tureen by robert Garrard bearing the arms of the rothschild and Montefiore families. the sale of Belle Époque decorative arts on June 6 includes several art deco bronze and ivory figures of alluring female dancers.

doyle: May 23 at 10 a.m., previews May 19-22. June 6 at 10 a.m., previews June 2-5. www.doylenewyork.com

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ot enough of Natalia Makarova’s high artistic quality nor her particular qualities were on view at the tribute to her staged by Youth America Grand prix late last month. The videos shown of her performances existed almost in a class of their own. I don’t think that this was deliberate, for the performers chosen were top international names. Granted as always that they came from all four corners of the globe and may have been tired, etc., etc., I still missed Makarova’s line— flowing even when she stood absolutely still. I missed her float and illusion of impalpability. I missed her ability to sustain the fiction that a kinetic pulse continued beyond the actual conclusion of a step or an extension.

Of course Makarova would have been extraordinary at any time or place. But watching the videos shown and thinking back to the many times I saw her dance live in the late 1970s and 1980s, something startling was clear: Although individual aspects of ballet technique have strengthened quantitatively, technique as an integrated expression has not really progressed.

But going back 100 years or so, there is no question that what was considered ballet dancing is a world apart from what we think of it today. Recently I was studying with fascination a 1917 silent melodrama, The Dancer’s Peril. Twenty-four-year-old Alice Brady plays both a student at the imperial ballet school in St. Petersburg, and her mother, a lesser-caste sent back to Paris by her grand duke husband once the czar has made his disapproval of their liaison quite clear.

The young dancer goes to Paris with a

Diaghilev-like troupe, which could not have been a more timely career path. In the year prior to the film’s release in March 1917, Diaghilev’s troupe had played three seasons in New York and made two cross-country tours of the United States. A title card tells us that “Le Ballet Russe performs Le Ballet Scheherazade”—one of Diaghilev’s greatest hits. On film we see a simulacrum, elaborately staged. It doesn’t borrow steps from Fokine—there were already lawsuits concerning choreographic copyright—but the derivation is explicit.

Non-dancer Brady throws herself with gusto if not finesse into all sorts of dance moves, but she never tries to go on pointe—in class she wears a Grecian tunic while the other women toil in rehearsal tutus and pointe shoes. (Most of what Brady does kinetically is of course framed in medium or long shot.) Moscow-trained Alexis Kosloff is Brady’s instructor, and he’s the male lead in the ballet. He can jump, beat, and boy can he clutch-and-stagger!

In the studio and onstage vignettes we see continuity and rupture between technique then and now. The tutus are much more voluminous than today’s. The dancers’ extended legs are much lower. The women are on the whole shorter than today’s. They are certainly sleek and many are well proportioned. But they have much larger and rounder muscles than ballet dancers have today. I think these dancers may have come from the Metropolitan Opera’s resident ensemble, the city’s major ballet troupe at that time. (Kosloff eventually directed them.) Watching The Dancer’s Peril today, we have the chance to see ballet through eyes of a different public who came long ago to ballet with a very different set of visual expectations.

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Deco Japan is unquestionably the most important exhibit in New York City right now, visually stunning from its tiny objects to large paintings. It also forces us to rethink an entire nation and to reappraise Art Deco, which saw a revival from the 1960s to the 1980s, when you could show off by pointing out Aztec origins and going all ’30s camp.

Well, the Japanese got that too, as well as the

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sunburst image (check out the matchbook covers), the adaptation of traditional Japanese tea screens with angular motifs of birds looking like airplanes. Much more.

Indeed, Art Deco seems to have permeated every aspect of Japanese culture, which tells us something about the mutual attraction of hard work, discipline and clean design lines.

Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945 is on view through June 10 at Japan Society, 333 e. 47th St.; 212-832-1155, japansociety.org.

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Leading the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Center for Autism and the Developing Brain are (left to right) Dr. Steven Corwin, Chief Executive Officer, NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital; Dr. Catherine Lord, Director, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain; Laura Slatkin, Co-Founder, New York Center for Autism; James Simons, Chairman, The Simons Foundation; Bob Wright Co-Founder, Autism Speaks; Ilene Lainer; Co-Founder, New York Center for Autism; Suzanne Wright, Co-Founder, Autism Speaks; and Marilyn Simons, President, The Simons Foundation

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side at York Avenue and 68th Street, comprises NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College.

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aking the time to make a few simple lifestyle adjustments and finding out how to recognize an attack when it happens can save thousands of lives. “More than half of all strokes can be prevented,” says Dr. Matthew Fink, Chief of the Division of Stroke and Critical Care Neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Reduce Your Stroke Risk 1 Reduce salt intake. Cutting back on salt is one of the 1

most significant steps to maintaining or lowering your blood pressure to a healthy level of 120/80 or below.

2 Eat a heart-healthy diet. Maintaining a healthy 2

balance between your good cholesterol (HDL) and bad cholesterol (LDL) is the best way to prevent high cholesterol, heart disease and the increased risk of stroke. Your cholesterol level should remain at 200 mg/dl or below.

3 Stop smoking. A smoker is at twice the risk of having 3

a stroke because smoking damages blood vessels, raises

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stroke increases. Aerobic exercise can be a good way to lose those extra pounds and substantially improve your health.

Call 911, if you experience: Weakness. A sudden weakness or numbness in the face, arms or legs, specifically on one side of the body.

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ARE YOU BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT A FALL/2013 PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN PLACEMENT FOR YOUR CHILD? ANNOUNCING A WORKSHOP BY ROBIN ARONOW, PH.D. Ò LIFE AFTER NURSERY SCHOOL: THE MANHATTAN PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMISSION PROCESSÓ TUESDAY MAY 22, 2012 6:15-6:25 PM Sign-In, 6:30-8:30 PM Presentation Ansche Chesed 251 W. 100th St. at West End Avenue EARLY COST- $55 Per Family Available for purchase is a $15 information packet containing valuable articles, directories and worksheets for those beginning the process, if not bought previously.

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n a Friday afternoon, the New York Philharmonic began a concert with the Corsair overture of Berlioz. Then it was time for a new work, a concerto for orchestra by Marc Neikrug. The conductor, Alan Gilbert, did not stride to the podium to conduct. He and the composer ambled out holding microphones. Uh-oh.

At the Philharmonic, it seems, there cannot be a new piece without talk from the stage. Without special pleading and handholding. Gilbert made a crack. He said the premiere of the piece had taken place the night before, so “don’t worry about the new-music thing, guys.” The piece was no longer new, see?

This was kind of witty, but also incredibly condescending. If audiences are skeptical of new music, maybe it’s because they have been fed so much bad new music over the years. And whose fault is that, “guy”?

Neikrug made some rambling remarks about physiological reactions to musical notes, I think—I found it hard to understand him. If you’re going to impose talk on the audience, at least do it well. Some people are cut out for it, some are not.

Before he left the stage, Neikrug declared that the New York Philharmonic was “the best-sounding orchestra on the planet.”

Turning to Gilbert, he added, “And this is no small thanks to you.” These words did not, as they say in Washington, “pass the laugh test.” Even the Philharmonic’s biggest fans don’t say that the orchestra has a distinguished sound. Virtuosity and brashness,

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Listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra that night, I thought of Neikrug’s declaration—and was again amazed. True, the Philadelphians’ concert was in Carnegie Hall, whose acoustics are much better than those of the Philharmonic’s home, Avery Fisher. But still.

The talking between Gilbert and Neikrug went on for maybe 10 minutes, but it felt to me like 45. And it killed the concert dead. The Corsair overture had been fairly exciting, but then the concert hit this brick wall. Not only was the talking completely unnecessary, and unhelpful, it was also insulting—insulting to the audience and, I believe, to the composer. Music speaks for itself.

Neikrug’s Concerto for Orchestra is in four movements. The first includes a lot of percussion, as so many of today’s orchestral pieces do. It is jazzily atonal, or atonally jazzy. Through a din, melodies struggle to be heard. This piece was brand-new, but I felt I had sat through it many times before.

The second movement, a scherzo, is hazy, fluttery, meditative. There is a Debussyan flute. Also some Mendelssohnian lightness.

The third movement, Adagio, pays homage to Mahler, I believe. Was that The Song of the Earth I heard? The final movement, Allegro, lets the clarinetist and some others get in some good licks.

I found this piece inferior to a Neikrug piece programmed by the Chamber Music Society not long ago: a clarinet quintet.

Nothing in the concerto arrested or moved me the way parts of the quintet did. But I would like to hear it again. Neikrug is a very capable man. And next time, please: Less talk, more rock.

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one are the days when Tim Burton films made you laugh first. Now Burton more likely makes you cringe, as in Dark Shadows, his new film version of TV’s 1960s daytime soap opera. It retells the story of Barnabas Collins, an early-American fishing scion who had been turned into a vampire by Angelique, a witch he spurned.

“She caused me to be a vampire so that my suffering would never end,” says Barnabas (Johnny Depp) in tones so sepulchral they’re almost satiric. Yet, Burton loses his signature balance of dread and humor. There’s an indecisive, scattershot approach to both vampire legend and pop culture camp. It’s as if Burton couldn’t decide to be kooky or spooky.

Burton’s done genre makeovers before, yet Dark Shadows isn’t a transformation like his 2001 Planet of the Apes or his do-over Batman Returns, which definitively grasped

the comic-fright tone missing from his nowforgotten 1989 Batman blockbuster. Burton’s Dark Shadows never takes hold as a gothic vision of American history (Sleepy Hollow II) or a comedy about love versus spite, the occult versus the all-too-mortal follies that transpire within the personalized crosscurrents of ruthless business practices in the Collins family saga.

Some of all of that occurs throughout Dark Shadows, but only in flashes; primarily when BarNabas and Angelique (Eva Green) combine sexual tension with commercial competition.

Their seduction scenes (frolicking among Pop Art paintings like the Partyman museumvandalizing sequence) combine simultaneously with corporate hijinks. If this jokiness isn’t the fault of a studio mandate, then blame Burton’s confused artistic impulses.

Burton had developed his own idiosyncratic approach to genre and sentimentality in such enjoyable films as Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks (his masterpiece), Beetlejuice, Batman Returns and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But the

Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. mix of gloomy/gleeful tones in Dark Shadows (such as the poorly timed joke when 230year Barnabas misinterprets McDonald’s golden arches), suggests he’s lost his mirth.

The ghoulishness that has overtaken Burton’s filmmaking—in the nightmarish operetta Sweeney Todd and the lackluster freakshow Alice in Wonderland—vitiates his unique, usually macabre satire. Burton’s benign nerdiness now clashes with Dark Shadows’ strange pop culture anachronisms (the story is set in 1982). The original Dark Shadows program was inadvertently campy; through serialization of the horror

genre it meant to attract a younger audience, engrossed in human mystery and the fantastic. But the show became a source of amusement for emotionally detached viewers. When Burton joins their scoffing ranks, he winds up with something messily uneven: A ball scene with Alice Cooper (and some of the original soap opera’s cast) proves desperately inconsistent with Burton’s wry morbidity.

This Dark Shadows borrows from the campy Addams Family films as much as various scenes replay the outsider anxieties of Edward Scissorhands—not Burton’s finest moment although probably essential to understanding his fantasy life. Making sexy camp is a devolution for a once original pop artist. Burton was smart to get Johnny Depp’s best deadpan readings (“You may immediately place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly”) and lucky to cast wonderfully histrionic Eva Green as Angelique, a ghoul in the shell of a vixen. When Angelique cries, her tears fall in the cracks of her decaying visage—at last an image worthy of Burton and equal to the improbable mashup of Barnabas’ clawing Nosferatu fingers.

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echnology will eventually destroy us.” That’s probably an idea you’re familiar with, whether by observation of the increasingly alarming dependency we have on our electronic devices, or maybe just exposure to allegory in science fiction. It also might be an apt description for Binary Domain, a sci-fi shooter that explores some exceptionally thought-provoking themes.

Criminally overlooked in retail despite its unique qualities, Binary is in many ways similar to Blade Runner: in the future, cybernetic technology is so advanced that it becomes possible to create robots that are indistinguishable from humans. After a U.S. attack by a so-called “hollow child,” an international spec-ops team is sent to Japan to apprehend the creator of the world’s most advanced robotics technology, under violation of an international treaty banning the research and development of sentient intelligence in machines. Only unlike Blade Runner’s replicants, hollow children have no idea they’re not human.

There’s plenty of commentary that can spark just from this setup: humanity playing God, ethics in technology or even, as Binary was developed by a Japanese team, issues Japan has historically grappled with regarding its military stance or its own cultural identity. It’s a bit unexpected for a game whose surface-level description could be summed up as using automatic weapons to destroy robots.

Binary’s self-awareness is likely its most fascinating aspect. On a design level, this manifests in the AI of your enemies, all Japanese-manufactured cybernetic soldiers (nicknamed “scrapheads”). Thematically tying in with the idea of evolution, they dynamically react to changing battle conditions, adapting as situations warrant by, say, shooting malfunctioning teammates or picking up weapons even if primary shooting limbs have been blown off.

Yet hollow children aren’t self-aware.

They are ignorant to the reality that they’re

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actually machines.

The only thing that separates them from the scrapheads on the battlefield is a layer of artificial skin and implanted memories.

And if these androids lived as humans for so long, what can it even mean to be alive?

It’s almost impossible to get into the meat of Binary without revealing too much about the narrative, which twists unexpectedly while raising heavy questions about natural selection and the dichotomy between real and artificial life. Interestingly, the developers also acknowledge the cultural stereotypes Japan usually affords foreign culture, lending a touch of Zoltan Korda’s Sahara to the proceedings—all this in the body of a dumb sci-fi shooter.

Binary Domain is available now on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Steve Haske is a Portland-based journalist. You can follow him on Twitter @afraidtomerge.

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Frank E. Campbell – The Funeral Chapel Hosts Annual Bus Trip to Calverton National Cemetery As the seasons change and Memorial Day approaches, we find ourselves thinking about the men and women who are serving our country around the world. We also remember those who gave of themselves when our freedom was threatened, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our nation.

We here at Frank E. Campbell, “The Funeral Chapel” are sponsoring a trip to Calverton National Cemetery for those individuals who do not get an opportunity to visit their loved one who served ourHcountry.

This FREE trip will take place on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. The bus will leave from 81st Street and Madison Avenue at 8:30 am and will return approximately 4:30 pm.

A continental breakfast will be served at Frank E. Campbell between 7:30 am – 8:15 am.

A box lunch will be provided on the bus at Calverton National Cemetery.

If you are interested in joining us, please call 212-288-3500 by May 25, 2012, to reserve your place. Please have your section and grave information available when you call.

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Even City Dogs Have to Worry About Ticks

By Robin Brennen This may be more than you will ever need to know about ticks, but since I found a tick on my dog after a walk in Central Park, I think it is relevant information for New York City dog owners.

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Ticks and their bacteria tend to gravitate toward dogs’ ears and shoulder blades, helping to spread disease. a piece of New Jersey amber from the Cretaceous period. It is likely that ticks will still be around long after humans are extinct.

Ticks are parasites that feed on the blood of their host, which can be an animal or a human. Ticks are sightless. They get around by using tiny pincer-like claws on the ends of their eight legs to grab onto rough surfaces. When a tick emerges hungrily from hibernation, it wanders blindly until it bumps into something, then grabs hold and starts climbing upward until it can rise no higher.

There, perched on some foliage, it sits patiently, using its legs as sensors that detect carbon dioxide and vibrations—it waits for its meal to drive by.

It can wait for months. Ticks in various life stages can go well over a year without food.

Once aboard a feeding source, like

your dog, they seem to navigate toward an area that is difficult to groom, like the ears or shoulder blades. Despite being quite hungry, they look for a mate. Male ticks remain on the host for an indefinite period of time, alternately feeding and mating. Usually, after a few matings he dies.

The females feed, mate, become engorged and then drop off to lay their eggs. The female dog tick lays 4,000-6,500 eggs. Then, exhausted, she dies. Adult ticks can sit around for two years waiting for food, then they eat, procreate and die.

The tick has a built-in spoon, fork and knife. The fork and knife dig a hole in the skin and, once the hole is dug, the spoon is inserted to feed. What is cool is that while digging, the tick secretes something akin to a topical anesthetic. It can take a half a day to dig the hole, and all the while the animal or human host doesn’t feel it.

Once they start sucking blood, ticks produce saliva that helps thin the viscosity of the blood, making the meal flow faster. The blood not only nourishes the tick, it also provides fuel to the bacteria living inside the gut of the tick.

As saliva continues to be produced, some of the bacteria migrate out of the tick and into the host. This is how disease is spread.

Different ticks host different diseases.

We are all familiar with Lyme disease carried by the deer tick, but the American dog tick can carry Ehrlichia and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Both attack the blood cells of dogs and have been reported to cause disease in humans.

Protecting you and your dog from ticks takes diligence and insecticides!

The Center for Disease Control recommends avoidance (walk in the center of a trail), repellents (check with your vet for products safe for your animals) and surveillance (body and clothing checks).

Showering and bathing your dog can reduce the risk of being bitten. Ticks are susceptible to desiccation and high heat, so tossing clothing in the dryer can kill any hitchhikers that haven’t found their way to the flesh.

In addition to good tick control, you may consider vaccinating your dog against Lyme disease.

Robin Brennen is chief of veterinary services and VP of operations at the Animal Hospitals at Bideawee.

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The Perfect Flavor for Warm Weather Matching vegetables with wines I feel like every time I proclaim the end to miserable weather in this column, we are struck with another swath of rain, sleet, high winds or snow. That’s why this time I will start, instead, by making an observation that may or may not be a harbinger of good (hopefully excellent) weather to come: our local farmer’s market is open again.

The farmer’s market around the corner from our apartment is a humble one, to be sure. Unlike the Union Square market, our outpost is only open from mid-spring to early fall.

But the produce they bring in is out of this world. In the summer, I switch from heavier fare that has me slaving over the stove for hours to lighter, vegetablebased dishes. The less our oven stays on, the cooler our apartment is. Besides that, vegetables, to me, are the flavor of warm weather.

So I must switch to drinking sangria and beer come summer, right? Wrong!

Although many people are frightened by the prospect of matching vegetables with wines, it’s really a natural pairing. If you think about it, the grapes used to make the wine and the vegetables you are cooking (or not cooking) have more in common than a cabernet and a sirloin steak.

You might be surprised what some of the great match-ups are.

One of my favorite things to make when entertaining in the summer is an easy

By Josh Perilo asparagus side dish that is great served at room temperature. Using about a pound of trimmed asparagus, I heat two or three tablespoons of olive oil in a sauté pan on low heat with five thinly sliced garlic cloves. After the oil has heated the garlic through, I add four or five roughly chopped sun-dried tomatoes. Once the mixture has cooked for five minutes, I bump the heat up to medium high and add the asparagus, cooking for another five to seven minutes.

This is amazing with a New Zealand

sauvignon blanc like the Allan Scott Sauvignon Blanc 2010 ($18.99 at Elite Wine, 558 3rd Ave. at 37th Street, 646658-7548). The crisp, citrusy flavors of the wine compliment the green, grassy flavors of the asparagus perfectly.

Vegetarian cuisine doesn t necessarily mean you’ll walk away from the table hungry. If you want something hearty that will stick to your ribs, a ratatouille is the perfect summer stew. Start by sautéing a chopped onion, four minced garlic cloves and a diced zucchini in a medium pot with olive oil. After everything has softened and you’ve flavored the mixture with salt and pepper, add a can of crushed tomatoes and a handful of chopped Kalamata olives. Let it simmer for a half hour and match it with a pinot noir like the Cooper Hill Pinot Noir 2010 from the Willamette Valley in Oregon ($20.99 at 67 Wine and Spirits, 179 Columbus Ave. at 68th St., 212-7246767). The acidity from the tomatoes and the natural acidity of the grape will cancel each other out and point up the fruity qualities of the wine and the richness of

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The perfect summer pasta dish is always primavera in my book. Mine always starts with sautéing six garlic cloves and a tablespoon of red pepper flakes in olive oil over low heat. After that has steeped, I add chopped summer squash and roughly chopped artichoke hearts. While I m boiling the pasta, I turn up the heat and add purple cauliflower florets, broccoli rabe and a little salt and finish the dish by throwing in the pasta and adding a handful of grated pecorino off the heat.

This deserves a wine with a lot of fruit and personality, like the Cline Viognier 2009 ($13.99 at Beacon Wines and Spirits, 2120 Broadway at 74th St., 212877-0028). The richness and slight fruitiness of the pecorino matches amazingly with the full-throttle tropical fruit in the viognier.

You don’t have to give up the meat completely for summer. Where would this great country be without hot dogs and hamburgers grilling on the coals? But if you decide to lighten up and turn down the heat in your kitchen, you’ll still have plenty of drink options besides a watery beer with lime.

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We’re getting younger people in their twenties and thirties. The predominant age range is between 30 and 40, but we do have quite a few students now who are in their twenties.

Why is this a good option for someone changing careers?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care is one of the areas where there will be growth. And as the Affordable Care Act gets implemented, it will grow. We have students who work in finance in a variety of settings in health care and we also have some students who are into computers; one of the areas that the Affordable Care Act is actually going to increase numbers in is information systems management, and our students do take a computer course. One of the reasons we say our degree can really help, is that students who have experi-

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It varies. For students who transfer with prior college credits and for those students who are eligible and do have the life experience credits, it varies. So some people come, they complete in two years, based on what they came with and what they’re able to get. Some students have finished within three years. Some students need four or five. The average is three to four, because many come with college credits. For those who don’t, many are able to get prior learning experience credits.

What else would you tell prospective students about the program?

Well, we are very student-centered— we offer all types of academic support for those students who have not been attending college for a while, and we do have advisers available to meet with individuals who are interested in applying.

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From this real-life relocation, the idea for a specialty real estate company was born. With the goal of helping families making similar decisions, Bernstein, a veteran broker, launched The Suburban Jungle Realty Group in 2008—a company that acts solely as the buyer’s broker, representing city-dwellers who are ready to make the move to the suburbs.

“Most of our clients are at this wonderful stage in life where they have just had children,” Bernstein says. “They want a lovely place for their families to grow up.”

But with over 500 suburbs in the tristate area to choose from, families can easily be overwhelmed.

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“If you pick a town where everybody is sending their kids to sleepaway camp and you don’t believe in that...your kid is going to be the only [one] home during the summer,” Bernstein advises.

Adding to its niche appeal, Suburban Jungle gives buyers access to Town Consultants—ex-Manhattanites living in the suburbs who can say what it’s really like to live in a certain town. These representatives shed light on daily life in the community, such as how far you have to drive for milk at midnight.

Beyond such personalized attention, Bernstein’s company also has a complimentary interior design division. She explains that her clients are usually moving out of smaller apartments into larger homes and they can feel overwhelmed by decorating a much larger space. Suburban Jungle takes care of that.

“There’s nothing more incredible than seeing a family moving…to a town where they’re going to start their life,” Bernstein says. “You know this is a place where they’re going to be raising their kids.”

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By Tom Allon Some of the worst policy ideas in history have been borne out of political payback by elected leaders.

We now are experiencing one of these on New York City’s East Side, where a long-forgotten political feud is rearing its ugly head and endangering the health and well-being of a ticked-off community.

Trash disposal and transfer is one of those municipal problems that makes most voters’ eyed glaze over—unless it affects them and their children.

Then it arouses much more ire and

Spreading the trash problem around the five boroughs is a wise goal. Siting marine transfer stations in residential neighborhoods where many children congregate is awful public policy. citizen involvement than almost any other issue.

Let me explain how this is playing out in one normally tranquil residential neighborhood that has many schools and one of the largest youth athletic facilities in New York City.

(Full disclosure: one of my children occasionally plays at this athletic facility.)

About eight years ago, New York City was debating how to equally share the burden of siting waste plants and transfer

stations for garbage.

In the past, the good citizens of Staten Island, New York’s least populous and most neglected borough, had done more than their fair share, with the Fresh Kills landfill becoming the main dumping ground for New York City’s garbage.

But when it was closed down, our elected leaders were forced to look for alternatives in New York’s five boroughs. At the time, the first-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg, Tom Allon. was facing withering criticism and a likely election challenge from then-Speaker of the City Council Gifford Miller, whose district encompassed the Yorkville neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side, which included a closed-down marine transfer station.

Bloomberg and his administration, which has been overwhelmingly successful avoiding political feuds and generally does the right thing in policy decisions, decided that reopening the marine transfer station in his adversary’s district was a good idea (and, perhaps, a way to stick it to the feckless critic, Mr. Miller).

Well, Miller’s candidacy failed in 2005 and Bloomberg won easy re-election, but this misguided decision to site the waste transfer station in a heavily residential district did not go away, because to do so would be to admit that it was a political maneuver in the first place.

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A Trashy Political Idea cessor as council speaker, Christine Quinn, is such a rubber stamp to the mayor that there is no one in power in New York who has been able to stop this bad idea.

But the community is fighting back and it may be able to affect change.

Residents for Sane Trash Solutions has mobilized more than 10,000 area residents to fight City Hall. It is registering voters and it will be a force in the 2013 mayoral election.

(Disclaimer no. 2: I will be a candidate challenging Ms. Quinn in 2013 to succeed Mayor Mike Bloomberg.)

Spreading the trash problem around the five boroughs is a wise goal. Siting marine transfer stations in residential neighborhoods where many children congregate is awful public policy.

The mayor and Council Speaker Quinn should recognize this, admit this plan is folly and let the good citizens of Yorkville focus on their jobs and families, rather than spending all their time fighting a politically motivated, bad policy.

Trash talking is bad in sports and politics.

Speaker Quinn, Mayor Bloomberg: Please clean up your act on this one.

Tom Allon, CEO of Manhattan Media, which includes Our Town, is a 2013 Liberal and Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City.

Best comments from Nypress.com and Letters to the Editor Positives of Street Fairs To the Editor: Re: “Not All Is Fair in Street Fairs, Some Say (May 10), one of the major fairs in CB8 was left out of the listing: The 37-year-old Manhattan Chamber of Commerce Second Avenue Community Benefit Festival on Sat. June 2 from noon to 5 p.m. on Third Avenue (due to Second Avenue Subway construction) from 66th to 86th Street.

In addition, the article talks minimally about the benefits to nonprofits and focuses on the costs to city, etc., of street fairs in general. Has anyone done an analysis of how much support the nonprofits in CB8 garner in critical funding from all the fairs? ESNA noted the financial support from their fair, but that is only one nonprofit that benefits.

The MCC Community Benefit Fund has contributed over $3 million in funding for 100+

nonprofits through our two street fairs over the past years, and nonprofits get free booths to let the community know about their initiatives, recruit volunteers and take donations for raffle tickets. And we pay 20 percent of our revenue to the city to underwrite the cost of our fairs.

With regard to closing down the streets for fairs where only the same sock and sausage vendors participate, it may not be the cup of tea for some but the vendors keep coming back, which means people in the community are buying from them!

Also, let’s discuss the cost of parades, which also cause traffic problems, congestion in CB8 and cost the city a great deal of money.

How much do they pay the city to underwrite their costs? I think very little! And what is the actual cost to the city? I think a lot! That is a piece of the equation no one is discussing and is equally costly—if not more so—to the city.

—Nancy Ploeger

President, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce

Impact by Example To the Editor: I was completely interested and absorbed in “An Unorthodox Rebellion,” (May 17) for many reasons. I am from a family of Conservative Jews, with quite a few extended family members practicing Orthodox Judaism. When I was out on my own, I withdrew from much lesser constraints than Deborah did. Over the years, I have slowly built a foundation of many different spiritual avenues that sustain me.

I don’t know Deborah personally, but I am proud of her and happy for her. She has made a huge impact by example and by reaching out and helping others in similar situations. BRAVA! —Lanie

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My Marriage and My President New York’s same-sex weddings get belated presidential blessing

By Christopher Moore I’m such a supporter of same-sex marriage that I went and had one.

This was last Dec. 30, when I married my partner. On our wedding day, I was painfully aware that we were at City Hall without the express consent of the president of the United States.

For all his chatter of hope and change, and for all the good he’s done for gay and lesbian people by allowing them to serve openly in the military, Obama was still a major disappointment on marriage. He talked about how he was “evolving” on the issue, prompting some activists to put a pithy phrase on a button: “Evolve, already.”

How long, we asked ourselves, does it take for a constitutional law professor to get around to thinking this through?

That changed last week, when Obama officially endorsed gay marriage, almost as eloquently as his candid vice-president did a few days before. The announcement sent shockwaves through our media-cen-

tric and gay-friendly city, where I think it’s fair to say the president is even more welcome than he was before.

Yes, there are opponents here to gay marriage, like the media-savvy Timothy Dolan. Last year, after he compared marrying someone of the same sex to wedding (and, by association, bedding) an animal, I took the liberty of calling his office and providing a woman who answered the phone with my reaction to his ridiculous comments. “I want to get married,” I said, “and I want him to get out of the way.”

Outside of religious extremists, New Yorkers seem pretty positive on this big issue. We have a mayor and a governor who led the way on same-sex marriage. Indeed, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s statement about Obama’s change of view contained a rare historical view. The mayor saw Obama’s comments to ABC’s Robin Roberts as a turning point—one that mattered because it came from the top.

“No American president has ever sup-

ported a major expansion of civil rights that has not ultimately been adopted by the American people—and I have no doubt that this will be no exception,” Bloomberg said.

Is history at odds with the short term?

Maybe. A Manhattan-based reporter pal of mine, reporting on the news as it broke, suggested Obama was alienating middle-class straight men in the Midwest.

Maybe, but if Obama is doomed, it’s not because I got married or because he now officially OKs the union. It’s because he never really learned how to manage the American economy, especially with Republicans in Congress at war with him.

Now that you’re cool with my marriage, Mr. President, would you please fire Timothy Geithner?

As a former Howard Dean supporter, I’m not great at picking a winner. Still, I’d argue the president has helped himself in a couple of ways. He helped build his brand, as the Madison Avenue peeps might say. He’s going for gutsy. This is the brave Obama, the guy who failed to show

up during negotiations with congressional Republicans.

Like all of the preceding elections, this one will be about turnout. Obama needs the money and energy of millions of gay voters, along with their families and friends. He was coming to town anyway to take our money. Now he can come without the ridiculous pretense that he’s still evolving. Instead, he will be a dude who, win or lose, has a place in history. He was the first U.S. president to tell some of us that he thinks we have the right to get married. In the city of Stonewall, that’s going to resonate.

On our wedding day, the couples at City Hall were of all shapes and sizes and, yes, they were both gay and straight. There was a stunning New York mix. To me, the whole thing was a walking and breathing miracle—how I was allowed to join legally with the love of my life in the city of my heart. I think Obama would have enjoyed himself on that December morning.

I like that there’s now no disconnect between my marriage and my president.

Christopher Moore is a writer living in Manhattan. He can be reached by email (ccmnj@aol.com) and is on Twitter (cmoorenyc).

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Is Too Much Truth Uncouth?

Defending dishonesty

By Jeanne Martinet The headlines have been full of the story of Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels hitting Washington Nationals rookie Bryce Harper in the back with the baseball a couple Sundays ago, afterward admitting publicly that he had done it on purpose.

Most commentators seem to agree that the real transgression was not the “drilling” but the ill-advised confession.

In other words, Hamels was not suspended for the act itself; what he was guilty of was too much honesty. Everyone accepts the reality that pitchers will sometimes aim for the batter, but no one is supposed to talk about it.

I’m not at all sure how I feel about the seemingly unsportsmanlike practice of pitchers intentionally throwing the ball at a batter’s body, but the recent incident gives me a good excuse for my semiannual rant about the importance of little white lying.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: The truth (and nothing but the truth) is n y pr e s s. c o m

often just as unnecessary as it is unwise— especially as far as our social lives go. All human adults need to lie sometimes, just to make life workable. I, for one, do not want to live in a world that does not allow for the comfort and beauty of the occasional friendly fib.

Let’s consider a day of complete honesty: You wake up to find that your 6-year-old daughter has lovingly made you a breakfast of Pop Tarts and Frosted Flakes that looks like a bad science experiment—and tastes like one, too. She asks you if it is “yummy delicious.” You smile back and say, “Honey, it’s OK horrible.” In the elevator on your way out of your building, your neighbor inquires about your sneezing, wanting to know if you have allergies; you explain you are sneezing because her perfume is so strong.

When you get to the office, your boss stops by your desk to ask what you think

of the new office procedure report he wrote up and sent you yesterday. You confess you think it is not really much of an improvement on the last one—and that even though you did not bother to give it a particularly close read, you can see it’s filled with flaws. Your boss raises an eyebrow and remarks that maybe you’d better work on some of your own flaws, and by the way the budget is tight and you won’t be getting that raise after all.

Next, a client phones and asks you to lunch. You tell him you are, in fact free, but that you are not really in the mood to see him, having just had rather a bad run-in with your boss, and you would really rather eat alone. An hour later you get an email from the client; he is canceling his account.

When you get home, your wife has had her hair done at a new salon. You can’t remember ever seeing human hair that color before. She asks you if it looks good. You tell her that it looks weird,

like Day-Glo paint. She starts crying and goes off to repair her makeup and look in the mirror again, leaving you to finish the preparations for the dinner party you are having.

One of your friends brings his new girlfriend to the dinner. She talks incessantly about her cats throughout the meal and knocks over a large glass of red wine, ruining the new tablecloth and another guest’s dress. Upon her departure, the new girlfriend thanks you and says she had a lovely time, to which you respond, “I’m not at all happy you could come.” She and her date (your now ex-friend) storm out.

Finally the horrible day is over, and you get ready for bed. As you are pulling down the covers, your wife says to you, “Well, everything went pretty well tonight, don’t you think?”

Some people may prefer the unvarnished truth but, if you please, I’ll take mine with a nice thick shellac of kindness, along with dashes of prevarication and evasion as needed. And yes, I do think I may have lost some weight—thank you so much for asking!

Jeanne Martinet, aka Miss Mingle, is the author of seven books on social interaction. Read her blog at MissMingle.com.

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