EVAN ZES’S RENT CONTROL SHINES ThROUGH THE nYC DARKNESS
I found out about Evan Zes because of a Twitter solicitor, whom I now owe an immense gratitude. In August, I interviewed the cast of a play called Mrs. Schrodingers Cat, which ran in the New York City Fringe Festival with Zes’s Rent Control. For a string of some three days, a random Twitter user kept mentioning my handle, urging me to look into a play about some guy’s experience running an Airbnb scheme. I ignored the tweets initially…
NYU ATHLETES LOSE THERE HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
During a preseason NYU women’s soccer practice in the Fall of 2013, freshman Kyla Bills overheard a suspicious comment made by an older teammate, who quipped that NYU’s Jerome S. Coles Sports Center could be demolished “any day now.”
PARKING (AND LUNCH) WITH STEPHEN ULRICH
When I asked Stephen Ulrich, the mastermind behind New York City’s cult-favorite noir jazz trio Big Lazy, where he’d like to meet for lunch, he surprised me by picking The Odeon. The venerable Tribeca bistro, which more or less serves (somewhat pricey) French-American fare, is a favorite of Wall Street executives and downtown artists alike, and though Stephen belongs to the latter group, having both eaten at The Odeon and having interviewed him twice before on my WNYU Radio show A-C-E, I didn’t feel the restaurant’s polished, white-tablecloth aesthetic matched his vibe. More accurately, The Odeon doesn’t look anything like his music sounds.