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Szot. (Zach Hyman/Patrick McMullan)

Paulo, Knight of Brazil, Serenades at the Café Carlyle

Opening-night jitters threatened temporarily to diminish the vocal capacities of Paulo Szot in his new cabaret act at the Café Carlyle. The first four numbers, all part of a well-deserved celebration of the 100th birthday year of composer Burton Lane, suffered from pitch problems. Then something clicked and the romantic Brazilian baritone, who won a Tony for his starring role in South Pacific at Lincoln Center, grew more at ease. As his voice gained strength, his vocal resources increased and so did his artistry. The rest of the show, which runs through Jan. 28, was pure delight. Read More

By Staff 6/27/06 12:57pm

Racism in Soccer on ESPN

"Racism in Soccer" was the teaser line ESPN kept putting on the screen to hold its audience for the halftime show of the Brazil-Ghana match. When we got to halftime, it turned out to be a report about comments made in 2004 by Aragones, the Spanish coach, when he baited his players to beat Read More

By NYO Staff 3/21/05 12:00am

Well, Great-Now the Rothschilds Are Pissed

It was a simple wine menu, four whites and four reds. But Jonathan Nossiter, a former sommelier sitting in the bar of the Sixty Thompson Street Hotel in Soho, couldn't make up his mind. He'd been staring quizzically at the red plastic card for some time. "I don't know what to say about this list," Read More

By Moira Hodgson 10/11/04 12:00am

No Designer Pizzas Here: Marco Prefers Tyrrhenian Classics

“Don’t get me wrong—I love Jesus! I love the beauty of life!”

This pronouncement was delivered in ringing tones by a young woman having dinner at Marco, a new Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. She was sitting with friends at a booth near the front of the restaurant, but her voice carried all the way back Read More
By Moira Hodgson 6/28/04 12:00am

Dining with Moira Hodgson

Brazilian Cocktails and Sushi

Served at Vela's Hydraulic Tables Everything about Vela is black. The walls are black, the mirrors are black, the metallic banquettes that curve like waves above your head are black, the tables and floor are black. The staff wears black; even the immense long bar is black (except for the bottles behind Read More
By Moira Hodgson 11/10/03 12:00am

Dining out with Moira Hodgson

Show Me the Hue …

Vietnamese in the Village Charles de Gaulle once said of Brazil, " Ce n'est pas un pays serieux ." When it comes to restaurants, God knows what he would have made of Hue (pronounced "hway"). It's the only restaurant I've ever been to that has a lounge with two queen-size beds-covered Read More
By Mario Naves 12:00am

No-Nonsense Portraits Of Wild, Naked Women

Arrogance isn't a trait we usually single out for commendation, but in art it has its uses. In the art of Neil Welliver, whose early figurative paintings are the subject of an exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery, arrogance is, if not the work's defining characteristic, then the engine that powers it. His paintings of beautiful Read More

By Joe Conason 1/10/00 12:00am

All Else May Change, But Center Will Hold

Assuming that millennial prognostications of doom and judgment are false-and therefore that this newspaper will be published on schedule eight days after this column is being written-it seems at least one safe prediction can be made. Politics in America will proceed along the heavily rutted centrist path of the past decade.

Given the unappetizing Read More
By James Hunter 6/28/99 12:00am

David Byrne Has Got His Ears Wide Open

For the last 10 years, David Byrne has run Luaka Bop, the Manhattan-based record label that specializes in international pop, with Yale Evelev, formerly of the Icon world music imprint, which is now defunct. The label, a Warner Brothers affiliate, has felt some buzz and heat, as with the 1989 release of Brazil Classics 1: Read More

By Joseph Hooper 5/17/99 12:00am

The Boy From Brazil: Tom Zé’s Po-Mo Samba

On stage, Duke Ellington used to introduce "The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse" by quoting the Marshall McLuhan dictum, "The whole world is going Oriental." Today, if Ellington weren't celebrating his 100th birthday from the grave, he might say that the whole world is going Brazilian. The secret knowledge that obsessive record collectors and eagle-eyed deejays have guarded Read More

By Hilton Kramer 4/06/98 12:00am

Lasar Segall’s Happy Life Didn’t Make for Great Art

There are artists whose lives are more compelling than their art, and the Brazilian painter Lasar Segall (1891-1957)–now the subject of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum–is certainly one of them. Segall, whose sensibility remained that of a northern European Expressionist even in sunny Brazil, was born to an Orthodox Jewish family, one of eight Read More


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