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Eataly, NYC

May 12, 2017 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Contributed by Susan Chen (Yale, 2020)

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2017, New York City, Wine

Midtown NY Election Party Hell

November 9, 2016 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“The Crossroads of the World will be turned into the Seventh Circle of Hell on election night when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump host dueling ‘victory’ parties about 20 blocks from each other.

“He’ll spend the last night of this ugly campaign at the Hilton on Sixth Ave. She’ll be at the Javits Center. You’ll be stuck at the corner of W. 46th and Deliverance.

“Even under the best circumstances, Midtown Manhattan is New York’s no-fly zone, the place where no real person goes unless he has tickets to a play or somehow ended up leading out-of-town relatives through the biggest tourist trap this side of Patpong Road.” [. . .]    –Gersh Kuntzman, New York Daily News, November 4, 2016

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2016, Circles of Hell, Donald Trump, Hell, Humor, New York City, Politics

Michael Counts, Paradiso: Chapter I, immersive theater (2016)

July 9, 2016 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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[…]  “Illusion is a staple in all kinds of theater, but it is doubly vital to Paradiso, a suspense thriller that is also a game. Using a structure that borrows from Dante’s Divine Comedy, it has a vibe that, in Mr. Counts’s telling, owes something to Ridley Scott’s futuristic classic Blade Runner and the TV drama Mr. Robot.

“With a plot that involves a conspiracy, it’s a narrative-driven twist on the increasingly popular escape-room genre of participatory entertainment. According to convention, a group of people is closed in a room, or sequence of rooms, with a single collective aim: to solve a series of puzzles in under an hour. Their prize is liberty — which, it’s true, will come at the end of the hour either way.” […]    –Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times, July 7, 2016

“PARADISO: Chapter 1 drops audience members (10 at a time) into a noir-ish nightmare that combines the surreal mystery of Stanley Kubrik with the stylized futuristic terror of Blade Runner into a one hour immersive theatrical Escape Room experience set in and inspired by the heart of New York’s Korea Town. Featuring a cast of dozens, highly designed sets with state-of-the-art special effects and the next generation of puzzles and mind-bending challenges, this immersive attraction is unlike anything audiences have ever seen or experienced.”    –from the Paradiso: Chapter I FAQs

Paradiso: Chapter 1 website

Contributed by Emma Pyle (Bowdoin, ’12)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2016, Horror, New York City, Theater, Virtual Reality

Dante: Restaurant-Bar and Ice Cube

May 30, 2016 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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[…] “Preserved in ice. Gaze down at the huge ice cube floating in your old-fashioned at Dante, the Italian-style aperitif bar in Greenwich Village, and you’ll have no doubt about where you’re drinking. Cut into the side of the frozen block is the bar’s poetic name.” […]   –Robert Simonson, New York Times, May 15, 2015

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Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2016, Advertising, Bars, Ice, Logos, New York City, Restaurants

Valentino Dress at the Met Gala 2016

May 29, 2016 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Rachel McAdams in a gold-beaded Valentino dress with lines from Dante’s Divine Comedy.    —US Magazine, May 2, 2016

Contributed by Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio

Categories: Consumer Goods, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2016, Canto 5, Fashion, Inferno, Love, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Paolo and Francesca, Valentino

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