Still at work, with a ton to do. Won't have much time off this weekend, but next weekend I'll be in Zurich with Patty before she comes up here for a couple of days. So hey. I need to book hotels later.
I REALLY MISS FOOD IN NYC RIGHT NOW. I knew I was spoiled, but I had no idea how much. I want a steak with some frizzled shallots at like 3am in the worst way. Seriously, I'm even craving The Odious (what we New Yorkers who are really over it but still go there sometimes anyway call The Odeon).
Wrote, very early in the morning for most of you, this week's Theater Thursday, which is about power and responsibility and being a director and stuff I know about people and (one of the many reasons) I felt like an asshole when I was in Sydney. Considering it only has one real comment and one spam comment so far today, it could really use some love. I also noticed than when I wrote about directors in the piece, I defaulted to the male pronoun, even when I was effectively speaking of myself -- I have enough issues (from traditional writing to my own gender identity) that this could be caused by any number of things, but I just reread the thing and went "Wow, issues." But hey, I'm okay with that if you're okay with that.
YOU GUYS! This was totally my childhood. The NYT doesn't quite get it. The debutante ball really hasn't dwindled in New York. It 's just always been of _such_ a rarified old-money class here that the world it's for is far more hidden than it was even in my childhood and teen years. But, er, yeah. Sometimes you all want to know what the world I grew up in was like, or don't believe it existed. Well, read that. It's one of the places I was sent as if it was (and it wasn't) for someone of my kind.
Taken with a grain of salt in that when I was there I was trying to live and not be a tourist, and also that I was there in warmer weather when there were street festivals and flea markets and such...
The bar's really the main one that you shouldn't miss this time of year -- it's a little hard to find because the entrance is in Brasserie Lipp. Be warned that the place is tiny and can get VERY crowded on a weekend night, so arrive early!
I think you're a little early still for the Christmas Market in the main station -- and Google confirms that it won't be until later in November.
If you like walking around, there are the two sides of the Altstadt -- Rennweg around Lindenhof which has the more exepnsive stuff -- the whisky selection at the Widder Bar is second to none if you like scotch, and they used to have live jazz at night.
The more touristy but grittier side of the Altstadt is across the Limmat in Niederdorf. I'd recommend a couple of fondue places, but there's NOTHING celiac-friendly about fondue. Caberet Voltaire is there, though, if you have an interest in Dada. Other artsy things...there are some Marc Chagall stained-glass windows in Fraumünster, Kunsthaus Zürich is a nice museum, although small.
Clubwise...hmmm....I don't know what the club scene really is there anymore; Valser was OK, but small, there was another fun place called Meylenstein right up at the end of Line 4 at Bhf Tiefenbrunnen . Pur Pur (not too far from Niederdorf) was pretty good, although the DJ needed work. The very best club was some place in a basement along Langstrasse -- old school rap and motown, kids breakdancing, etc. We were there my last night up until about 6 in the morning and I've unfortunately forgotten the name of it (Langstrasse is also the red light district; forewarned is half an octopus).
I'll have to go through my old LJ entries and Flickr pics and see what else comes to mind.
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Date: 2010-11-04 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 07:19 pm (UTC)The bar's really the main one that you shouldn't miss this time of year -- it's a little hard to find because the entrance is in Brasserie Lipp. Be warned that the place is tiny and can get VERY crowded on a weekend night, so arrive early!
I think you're a little early still for the Christmas Market in the main station -- and Google confirms that it won't be until later in November.
If you like walking around, there are the two sides of the Altstadt -- Rennweg around Lindenhof which has the more exepnsive stuff -- the whisky selection at the Widder Bar is second to none if you like scotch, and they used to have live jazz at night.
The more touristy but grittier side of the Altstadt is across the Limmat in Niederdorf. I'd recommend a couple of fondue places, but there's NOTHING celiac-friendly about fondue. Caberet Voltaire is there, though, if you have an interest in Dada. Other artsy things...there are some Marc Chagall stained-glass windows in Fraumünster, Kunsthaus Zürich is a nice museum, although small.
Clubwise...hmmm....I don't know what the club scene really is there anymore; Valser was OK, but small, there was another fun place called Meylenstein right up at the end of Line 4 at Bhf Tiefenbrunnen . Pur Pur (not too far from Niederdorf) was pretty good, although the DJ needed work. The very best club was some place in a basement along Langstrasse -- old school rap and motown, kids breakdancing, etc. We were there my last night up until about 6 in the morning and I've unfortunately forgotten the name of it (Langstrasse is also the red light district; forewarned is half an octopus).
I'll have to go through my old LJ entries and Flickr pics and see what else comes to mind.
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Date: 2010-11-04 07:22 pm (UTC)That is amazing, and I plan to steal it like I was a cooking magazine.
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Date: 2010-11-04 07:31 pm (UTC)I plan to steal it like I was a cooking magazine
Hee!
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