East Harlem gets its first bookstore. Note: This is a modified version of an article that appears in today's Daily News.
Only Page Views has the full interview with Ms. Anaya Cerda, proprietor of La Casa Azul Bookstore. Aurora Anaya-Cerda is the tour-de-force behind a new, Latino-culture focused bookstore, La Casa Azul, to open at 143 E.103rd Street in East Harlem this spring. Page Views' Laura Booth sat down with her to talk about how she developed such a bold project, what her hopes for the store's role in El Barrio will be, and why she expects it to be successful. (Photo: Anaya-Cerda in front of the mural outside La Casa Azul / Laura Booth) Laura Booth: You’ve run an online bookstore for three years. What I realized later was that it [the website] created a platform for me and began to draw an audience.
So I decided I would launch a campaign, on IndieGoGo, to raise 40k in 40 days. LB: Given your trajectory, do you think opening a bookstore like this is possible for anyone? LB: You want to run writers’ programs. Tags: Happy 125th Birthday to the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty at Dusk. The Cleverest Steve Jobs Tribute Shows Two Sides of the Man. The kingdom and the power of David Carr. New York Times media reporter David Carr had a bad feeling during a photo shoot he was doing for Interview magazine early last month.
The photographer for the notoriously fashiony celebrity-on-celebrity Q-and-A magazine had taken a number of shots of him in a nice, tailored suit, to accompany a write-up of an interview of him by the brilliant screen- and television writer Aaron Sorkin, a famous ex-cocaine addict. ("We once had a hobby in common," Carr told Capital.) The Sorkin interview was pegged to the documentary, Page One, which opens at select venues in New York City on June 17, and in which Carr has a starring role. But their conversation, as so many of Carr's public conversations these days are, was about the Times, writ large: Its mission on earth.
So here was a photographer coming at him with a fedora. "I was thinking, 'I'm not a hat guy,' and they said that's just a couple of shots, don't worry about it," Carr said, in a phone interview. It's not wrong, but it's not complete.
Hyper-Local. Fun events. How Jennifer Rubell Found Her Place As an Artist. On a hot, sticky night in the summer of 1979, Jennifer Rubell, a rising fourth-grader at P.S.6, accompanied her uncle Steve to a small dinner party at his friend Halston’s townhouse.
The air-conditioning was cranked to icebox high, and guests—Liza Minnelli, Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O’Neal, and Andy Warhol—were seated in front of a roaring fire. Warhol had a sudden urge to draw Farrah. Halston clapped his hands, and his butler, Mohammad, appeared with folded white napkins and black markers, served on a silver tray.
Warhol began, then changed his mind and began sketching the 9-year-old instead. “Your parents are those art collectors, right?” “You have to understand that Andy and my uncle were best friends,” says Rubell, 41, laughing as she tells the story.
Should Lunar New Year Be A NYC School Holiday? - Gothamist. Map of New York City’s ethnic neighborhoods - Map. Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Their Surging Numbers. Eric Michael Johnson for The New York Times Flushing, Queens, is home to a large population of Asians, including Chinese, Koreans and Indians.
Asians in the city are reaching across ethnic lines to gain political power. Marcus Yam for The New York Times Steven Choi, a community organizer, at a rally on immigration issues. He said that Asians make up 13 percent of the city's population, but groups that serve them receive a disproportionately low share of some city social-service funds. Koreatown was well known as a commercial zone in Midtown Manhattan, but now parts of Flushing, Queens, where tens of thousands of Koreans have moved, feel like suburban Seoul. Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city’s kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. “We are 13 percent of this city’s population!” But making that happen is not easy, because the population that calls itself Asian is extremely diverse. Tatn: #NYC #Chinatown Considers...