The New Museum has a new campaign called "Recalling 1993" and it sounds great, especially if you need to duck into a pay phone. If you go to most of the working phones in Manhattan and call 1-855-FOR-1993, you'll hear a recording of someone -- often a notable New Yorker -- telling a story about what the neighborhood you're calling from was like in 1993. There's one involving James St. James and a murderer that we'd really like to hear. And
here's an interactive map with all of the participating phones. [via
GalleristNY]
2. Here's a post-card themed teaser for
Broadway Bares, which on will be on June 23rd at the Roseland Ballroom. We're excited. [via
Queerty]
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3. In "what the hell am I doing with my life?" news, 17 year-old
Nick D'Aloisio just sold his app, Summly -- which uses an algorithm to scan news articles and spit out summaries that dispense of all the unnecessary details -- to
Yahoo for around $30 million. [via
Death and Taxes]
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4. The
MTV Video Music Awards is coming to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Doesn't that mean that
Jay-Z has to host? [via
New York Times]
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5.
Jane Goodall is postponing publishing her book after the
Washington Post discovered that some passages were taken from other sources without retribution. [via
NPR; image
via]
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6. Two lawyers are filing a class-action suit against the Met for making the recommended $25 donation for admission seem mandatory. While this is a completely unnecessary suit, we did learn a few things: the Met doesn't have to pay rent or income tax, and only about 11% of its operating expenses were covered by admissions charges in 2012. Who knew? [via
Gawker]
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7. Something we absolutely need to tune in for:
Stephen Colbert interviewing
Bill Clinton on the
Colbert Report. No official date has been released yet, but it will air sometime the week of April 8th. [via
EW]
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8. In 1975,
TIME offered
Lily Tomlin a cover if she came out in the issue. She told
Entertainment Weekly, "I was a bit insulted that they thought I'd trade my personal life for the cover of
TIME. It's probably just as well. Being such a big TV personality at that time, it probably would have been tsunami-like." [via
Greg in Hollywood]