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Watch out: Amazing, indeed
Tue Feb 17
The new season of The Amazing Race, the reality show that is part travelogue, part scavenger hunt (with a dash of Fear Factor and a hint of Survivor thrown in), is off to a great start, challenging contestants to hurl themselves off the same 722-foot-high dam that 007 tackled.Our early favorites for the competition: The stunt brothers, and Brad & Victoria; blondes Christie & Jodi, and father-and-son Mel & School-of-Rock Mike are sure to provide great comic relief ("Just don't let a cheese hit me!")
Last-Minute Plan: Exercise/destroy your brain
Tue Feb 17
After a slothful three-day weekend watching a Law & Order marathon in your pj's, your brain (left) is probably thirsting for some stimulation.
Give it a workout at a free pub quiz tonight at Ellis Bar in Park Slope, and the ol' brain box could win you free beer! However, if your gray matter fails you, $3 cans of PBR and Negro Modelo should remind brains over there who's the boss. 627 Fifth Ave between 17th and 18th Sts, Park Slope, Brooklyn (718-768-0532). 9--11pm.
Fashion Week street fashion: Day five
Tue Feb 17
Video: Julia Allison at the Diane von Furstenberg show
Tue Feb 17
TONY contributor Julia Allison talks with Diane von Furstenberg about the inspiration of her fall 2009 collection, Nomad. "Wherever she goes she belongs, and her clothes are her friends," says Von Furstenberg.
TONY contributor Julia Allison talks with Diane von Furstenberg about the inspiration of her fall 2009 collection, Nomad.
Book of the Day: Simon Critchley's The Book of Dead Philosophers
Tue Feb 17
Okay, maybe Simon Critchley's new work of pop philosophy won't help you overcome your fear of death. But it should jolt readers with its seize-the-day attitude. The heart of the book consists of "190 or so" descriptions of how philosophers have died through the ages, from the 6th century B.C. through the early 21st century. Some of the deaths are noble (Freud succumbed to cancer with great composure). Many are absurd (Heracleitus, history has it, suffocated in cow dung). Taken together, these smart, morbid and sometimes hilarious write-ups reveal death to be both certain and wildly unpredictable—an ungainly fact without which life would, Critchley says, be meaningless.
Read an excerpt...... There is a story of Wittgenstein visiting the philosopher G.E. Moore in 1944 after Moore had suffered a stroke during a trip to the USA. Under instructions from his doctor, Moores wife insisted that his friends limit their visits to an hour and a half. Wittgenstein was the only person to resent...
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