| | | Benjamin Lawsky: The Man Who Picked a Fight With Wall Street BY ANNA MERLAN  Project Gazelle was a banker's dream. It was quiet, discreet, and made staggering piles of money catering to clients no one else would touch. The fact that it was also illegal didn't seem to matter much. Bankers at Standard Chartered felt confident no one would notice what they were doing. And even if somebody did, history said the punishment would be a delicate slap on the wrist. The bank was a stodgy old colonial holdover with a massive headquarters in London. It did a lot of business in Asia, clearing billions each year in profit. Sometime around 2001, the higher-ups spotted yet another place to make a buck: Iran. The Iranian government (as well as a few private corporations) want... more >>
| | | | | | | | Duane Pitre Gift Wraps His Compositions With a Bow on Top BY RAY CUMMINGS  Nature's effects are often contemplated on a macro level: tsunamis submerging islands and totalling nuclear plants, wildfires scorching acres of Idaho forest. Comparatively speaking, the compositions of Duane Pitre are resolutely micro: moss gathering on rocks, the insidious creep of erosion, the Magicicada cicada genus generally. One wanders into these compositional hinterlands nonplussed and e... more >> | | | | | | Sommelier Yannick Benjamin Works the Floor on Wheels BY MOWERY, LAUREN  A bottle of Gevrey-Chambertin saved Yannick Benjamin's career; wine saved his life. On October 27, 2003, Benjamin had a car accident on the West Side Highway that left him a T-6 paraplegic for life. He wasn't drinking, he didn't break any laws, nobody else was injured. Benjamin instantly knew something was wrong: "I felt a pulling in my body, the way a magnet is drawn to a refrigerator." That... more >> | | | | | | After Tiller Visits the Three Clinics Left Performing Late-Term Abortions BY ALAN SCHERSTUHL  If Americans have grown more conservative on abortion, it's a good bet the trucks have something to do with it. If you've seen them you'll never forget them: white vans or delivery vehicles plastered with grisly photos of red, pulpy tissue, clots of dead life distinguished with rough drafts of fists and eyes and a heart-sickening human aspect. No single image in After Tiller can compete on t... more >> | | | | | | | | Angel Otero's Digs On Frayed Canvases and Crumbled Sculptures BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNé  Ruins are the remnants of man-made architecture: once-complete structures collapsed into timeworn bits through lack of upkeep or deliberate destruction. Think of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Tikal—or the burned carcass of 20th-century modernism, for that matter. A grandiose pile as dystopic as downtown Detroit, this last stone-cold junkyard yields green shoots for only a few of our era's most per... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared On Friday, in the third quarter a western New York high school football game, 16-year-old Damon Janes ran for a five-yard touchdown. A few minutes later, there was a big hit and Janes walked off t... Fork in the Road Looking for something to do after work other than watching your DVR'ed collection of season premieres? How about a little cheap drinking Here's where to head this week. ... Sound of the City Since we last spoke to her before she kicked off her second US tour in February, Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Alexz Johnson saw her campaign for her upcoming album get fully funded via the c... After Dark NY Got sexy problems? In this, Naked City's newest feature, I will attempt to help readers figure out matters of the heart and loins such that they might copulate without confusion. Today, we take u... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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