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BB Pick - Jewel Priscilla Ahn

I just watched Priscilla Ahn online. I think she's an amazing new artist. She's really talented. I was pretty blown away by her and I haven't been blown away by somebody for a while.

11:14 pm, Jul 1, 2009
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Gavin Creel

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Singer, actor and current star of Hair on Broadway

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"I love watching Candice Olson on Divine Design on HGTV. She makes things pretty. She takes bad spaces and blows them out and makes them amazing. She's incredible."

11:02 pm, Jun 30, 2009
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Alex S  Jones

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Director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center

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Not to miss, as far as I'm concerned, is a profile of Michael Thomas in the New York Observer. Written by Spencer Morgan under the logo "Men of Manhattan," it is a wonderful portrait of the old curmudgeon, who is brutally frank and hilariously disrespectful of money and the monied. Thomas has a new book, Love & Money, partly self-published, and the column is pegged to that.

11:02 pm, Jun 30, 2009
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Spike Mendelsohn

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Head Chef and owner at Good Stuff Eatery

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When I got the Nepresso Essenza machine as a gift, I felt like my entire life was about to be rebooted. Chefs keep crazy hours. We work late and then we stay up even later, writing menus, recipes, returning business emails, or god forbid relaxing in front of a midnight movie now and then. Either way, I get into bed around 2 or 3 am and wake up around 8 am. As sleep deprived as I am, I'm naturally pretty high on life, but I gotta say, caffeine helps a lot! Now I drink a couple of cups a day religiously and I'm loving the energy. Only problem is I drink these little espresso shots in big old coffee mugs which is probably very uncool of me."

9:51 pm, Jun 30, 2009
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Adam Perry  Lang

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Chef/Owner of Daisy May’s BBQ USA and Carnevino

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I have been spending a lot of time in London, and I'm loving the Borough Market. I have a routine: I go to Monmouth Coffee for a Flat White, plus pick up a few to go for the butchers at the Ginger Pig. If you don't already know what a Flat White is, it's a shot of espresso with steamed milk (there is no way in hell they are using skim) where the foam is folded in, and the top is pushed aside as it is poured into the cup. It is dense, rich and—quite frankly—life changing. I'm actually not a big fan of caffeine, so I must suffer through the jittering. This place has vibrant buzz, always a line throughout the day, and the smell of freshly roasted coffee wafts all around.

9:51 pm, Jun 30, 2009
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Simon Schama

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Professor of art history at Columbia University

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Do we need more Holocaust articles? Yes, in the week when the world's most powerful and moronic denier has returned to power in Iran we do. So read Timothy Snyder's powerful, grim, and gritty article The Holocaust: The Ignored Reality in the current New York Review of Books where he argues persuasively we have to move away from the Auschwitz obsession—to see the whole of eastern Europe as a vast killing zone; with as many killed by bullets as by gas; and at the epicenter of murderous squalor, Belarus, at once a hotbed of resistance and the killing woods and fields. If you think nothing could make you think again about this awful inescapable matter, read Snyder and you will: a summer chill we all need.

11:08 pm, Jun 29, 2009
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Joy  Behar

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Co-Host of ABC's The View

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The film Séraphine. The star of the movie is Yolande Moreau, who’s a wonderful actress. She plays an artist in France during World War One who’s a housekeeper, but will do anything to paint. One day an art dealer moves into the house that she’s cleaning, and you’ll see what happens from there. I don’t want to tell you everything, but suffice it to say that it’s fabulous. 

 

Click here to watch Behar's video review of the film.

11:08 pm, Jun 29, 2009
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Liz Garbus

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Director and producer of Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech

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Burma VJ, is an inside look at the extraordinary courage of journalists getting the word out about repression from a closed country. Risking life and limb (literally), using cell phones and mini-DV cameras, local journalists smuggled out the footage to tell the story of the brutal repression of the Saffron Revolution of 2007, when the country's monks took to the streets to protest the cruel dictatorship that held the country hostage for 40 years. As the protests on the streets of Iran pour into our public consciousness through Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, we can understand the extraordinary power of these new technologies in support of free speech and democratic movements.

1:33 pm, Jun 29, 2009
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Eric Alterman

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Journalist, author, and professor at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

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I've been listening to Arthur Phillips' new book The Song Is You on my iPod, downloaded from audible.com. It's a risky proposition for me because the book is a love story told through the metaphor of an iPod and I am scarily attached to my own, and the 17,450 songs I've downloaded into it. I also kind of hate the music to which Phillips refers, being '80s post-punk, for which I'm a little too old. All that is by way of introduction before I say how much I love this book. It's so knowing and so moving and so right in places, it's one of those treasures that you can't put down and don’t want ever to end. I intend to go back into his oeuvre when I'm done, as long as it's downloadable.

10:52 pm, Jun 28, 2009
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Harvey Weinstein

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Co-chairman of The Weinstein Company

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BB - The Hangover

I watched The Hangover this weekend. It is brilliantly funny and plain brilliant. It combined mystery, pulp fictions, film noir action and comedy like no other movie I've seen.

10:52 pm, Jun 28, 2009
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