Dork Love in Manhattan--help?

[lord of the mark]

I think i ate here once - not far from the met - kosher (yes I know you dont need that) Morrocan.

http://www.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=1&restaurantid=146&neighborhoodid=0&cuisineid=39&home=Y

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Broadway is supposedly booming this year and remember that last year was the best year ever in terms of audiences and revenue. They've stopped showing the shows which were designed for everyone to like and instead have moved towards specialty shows customized to appeal to different ethnic and socio-economic groups. It has worked and it's packed the broadway shows.

i meant stuff like this

http://www.onoffoff.com/OOBRView.xzc?OOBRView

Actors in NY get paid by the size of the theater. The stuff in the small theaters in odd locations is the interesting stuff.

[Elok]

Okay, I mentioned GePap's Uzbek place to her on the phone, and she said that sounded like great fun. She'd also have liked to try 88 Noodle, but she agreed that time was precious. Thank you, one and all, for the suggestions!

And she does indeed want to see the Assyrian stuff. She particularly wants to neb in the Sassanid(sp?) collection.

The exact quality of the musicals is, to me, irrelevant, except maybe for a pure comedy. The musical is an intrinsically ridiculous genre--I agree with my Community College film prof, who called the Musical "first cousin to the porn flick." It's a whole story deliberately and obviously contrived to fit a recurring phenomenon that simply does not happen that way, that often, in real life.

[GePap]

In terms of the Met, you can break it down into floors and sides.

The North side of the 1st Floor contains the Egyptian collection, the Hall of Armor, Americna art, and large sections of Medeival European decorative arts. The south side contains Classical pieces, arts from the New World and Africa, the modern paintings. I believe the Tibetan Armor exhibit is on the first floor, but it ends July 2. IN the middle you have European Medeival arts including Byzantine art, and more European decorative arts and Sculpture.

The Near East art, including Assyrian reliefs and anythign Sassanid they have is on the Second floor south. Thye Islamic art galeries have been closed for renovation for a while. That is also the side with the European paintings from the 19th century. The second floor north side has the arts from Japan, China, and South and Soputheast Asia, including the Astro Court. You can go to a very small third floor with Tibetan arts through the South East Asian collection. In the middle are the paintings by the "masters" like Rembrandt.

The Guggenheim is fine, but if you are limited in time, doing the Guggenheim and the Met is out of the question, if you want to get anything out of either place. Also, while the Met has a $15 suggested donation (ie, you can get in for free if you want, or pay less than $15), the Guggenheim costs $18,period. But the Met's collection of modern art leaves much to be desired.

[GePap]

Also, I was looking into the mater, and it seems Gan Eden has gone out of business, but further down the block you get:

Taam-Tov (Good taste?)
46 West 47th Street, 4th Floor
212-768-8001
10am-5pm Monday-Friday

Which is another Uzbek restaurant. Seems it may have driven Gan Eden out of business.

Someone's review.

http://www.deadprogrammer.com/?cat=30

And other possible choices just south of Rockefeller center:

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/restaurants/cheapeats/12315/

[Elok]

Er, is that place open on Saturday too? Taam-Tov, I mean.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Elok
It's a whole story deliberately and obviously contrived to fit a recurring phenomenon that simply does not happen that way, that often, in real life.

It does if you live with the right people.

[Elok]

Ludd, anybody who holds conversations in elaborate song-and-dance numbers does not qualify as "the right people" by my book. Unless by "right" you mean "acid-using." Or were you referring to the porn flicks?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Elok
Er, is that place open on Saturday too? Taam-Tov, I mean.

Very possibly NOT, seeing as the owners might keep the sabbath. Maybe call ahead and find out.

[Jon Miller]

I have found that many Jewish places aren't open on the Sabbath.

Jon Miller
(which makes a lot of sense...)

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Elok
Ludd, anybody who holds conversations in elaborate song-and-dance numbers does not qualify as "the right people" by my book. Unless by "right" you mean "acid-using." Or were you referring to the porn flicks?

Living amongst artists, they can both can be true.

[Elok]

Thanks, I'll be sure to call sometime. She says she's quite comfortable just winging it and picking a likely place when we get there, but I like to plan ahead. Y'know, to avoid botulism, paying ten times as much for a meal as I'd planned, etc.

And I only like the Guggenheim itself. I dig FLW buildings. Modern Art isn't my thing. The one time I went there, I found the exhibits alternately pretentious, inscrutable and stupid.