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2009-07-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

Le Pain Quotidien

Le Pain Quotidien $3.35 Baguette One of the best bakeries in New York City. This afternoon I went to Le Pain Quotidien for the best bread wherever to find such a good baguette to blow off my tiredness from a contemporary dance class and si…

Da Da Dance Project: Blueprint

July 30 - August 1 Joyce SOHO $12-15 Da Da Dance Project (movies) "Butter and Fly: Intends to Walk" Ploy (2009) Blood Orange (2008) (Audio Visual) Tiny Voices (NY Premier, 2008) (Audio Visual) Blueprint (Excerpt, 2008) (Audio Visual) Bluep…

New York City Contemporary Dance Information

Peridance International Dance Center A variety of classes by renowned choreographers The dressing room is not so clean...They have 3 dance studios (Mirrors are not mirrors, just paper of alluminium...) The floors are filled with mending ta…

Norman Savitt

I met Norman Savitt in Fisherman's Wharf Youth Hostel. In the laundry room, he was half-naked, veiling his bottom with a long towel (not a big-sized bath towel). Obviously, he was waiting for the washer to be done and had no spare clothes.…

Nicholas Roerich Museum

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A small museum in Morningside Heights, New York City

Grimaldi's Pizzaria

Fulton Street near Brooklyn Bridge Grimaldi's Pizzaria won the best of all the pizzaria in NYC in 2008 and 2007. We waited for 1 hour and half in line...Worth it? No. One of my friends said you can go to the downtown, wait for 20 mins and …

Uncle Vanya

A very good Russian restaurant you could recommend to any of your friends. The menus are fairly expensive. 6 of us, all NYU students, got together for a good dinner.

Umberto Boccioni's Colors of Light in MOMA

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Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY Free on Friday, 4-8pm Tour guidebook says it is very crowded on Friday night, and that you must start waiting earlier than 4pm. I got to the museum at0415, but I waited less than 5 minut…

Umberto Boccioni: Dynamism of a Soccer Player

Charles M. Schultz Museum, Sausalito and Meeting Karate U.S. National Champion Tobin

Charles M. Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California Beautiful Sausalito, an artists' town just next to San Francisco We met Tobin, a Karate U.S. National Champion some 10 years ago who now resides in Santa Rosa, a city 1.5 h…

The Little Thai

A popular little restaurant in Polk St and Broadway, just one block from Van Ness Ave. $6.85 Fried Vegitables for Two $11.00 Seafood Soup Very good Thai. With my new roommate who runs a hostel in Mount Shasta, a small town in Northern Cali…

Niku-Jaga Rescue

I have cold and was feeling lonely. But only when I have physically bad condition, no problem. Cooked Niku-Jaga in the kitchen in the hostel. Several guys talked to me as it looked and smelled very good. Talked with a lot of people for the…

SF MOMA

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Went to SF Museum of Modern Art. Thursday half the price. Katharina Fritsch: Child With Poodle My favorite work here in SF MOMA. Installation. 3 circles of black poodles around a baby on a star. I walked around the poodles for a few minite…

Castro Street

The area around Castro Street is said to be for gay people. Interesting bookstore where all books about being gay--from which town to live in the States, coming out to your parents... There`s not much to see for me in the shop area, but I …

The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah: Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sacred Science

The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah作者: Leonora Leet Ph.D.出版社/メーカー: Inner Traditions発売日: 1999/07メディア: ペーパーバックこの商品を含むブログ (1件) を見る

The Total Kabbalah

Total Kabbalah: Bring Balance and Happiness into Your Life作者: Maggy Whitehouse出版社/メーカー: Chronicle Books発売日: 2007/12/27メディア: ペーパーバックこの商品を含むブログ (1件) を見るFull of colorful, detailed illustration.

Haight Ashbury Street

It`s a town for artists. It must be pretty commercial, but I liked it to see and feel all the shops along the street. It really makes you dance! New Age shop called Genesis and boutique named Eve was nice.

Moondance

Went to Golden Gate Park, Rose Garden in it and so on.

ODC Dance Commons

ODC is the biggest contemporary dance studio in SF. They have their own theater as well. Contemporary class by Natalie was fun.

Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine

825 Mission Street, San Francisco Pretty good. Crowded with local business people.

SF Day 4: Bay View

As the first hostel in the downtown was like living in the middle of a busy street, I have moved to this hostel in Fisherman's Wharf. You can see the bay from the room and it's fantastic. It's quieter, more serene here.

Cell Phone Purchase

$21 at Walgreen`s for handset ($30 in AT&T center) $25 for prepaid phone card

WestWave Dance Festival @Fort Mason Center, SF

WestWave Dance Festival Fort Mason Center, SF 8:30pm - 22:40pm $27 at door / $22 in advance 6 pieces by 6 dance companies Kim Epifano Katie Faulkner Amy Seiwert Manuelito Biag Benjamin Levy Patrick MakuakaneThere seemed to be no difference…

SF Day 2: Palo Alto

Hang out with my Indian friend who works in Sillicon Valley, or San Jose, and his friend of a college student here in San Francisco State University to Palo Alto, the town for Stanford University.

SF Day 1: Humankinds are great

how are you? i'm here in san francisco, staying in a youth hostel...i went to fisherman's wharf (seaside streets) with my new roommate, an italian young lady who has a master's degree in art history and used to be a semiprofessional dancer…