A Malaysian Menu Laced with the Flavors of Brooklyn

A Malaysian Menu Laced with the Flavors of Brooklyn

The best thing on the menu at Kelang, a Malaysian restaurant in Greenpoint that opened in December, is a puffy paratha on a bed of spiced red-lentil dal, topped with creamy Italian stracciatella cheese. Depending on who you are, where you’re from, and how rigid you are in your notions of gastronomic interpolation, this will…

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How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer

How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer

Rauschenberg returned to Black Mountain for the summer of 1951. By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching at the school, along with Hazel Larsen Archer, who had overlapped with Rauschenberg in 1949 and captured his love of movement and of grace in a photograph of her own. (Her picture shows Rauschenberg…

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My Brief Time in John F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Orbit

My Brief Time in John F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Orbit

His curiosity extended to the universe. One night, at a house party, John and I ended up in the back yard, drinking beer. Suddenly he stood up and gazed at the night sky. “Hey,” he said, “you take a lot of reli-stu, right? Can I ask you something? Do you think there’s a God?” I…

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