I love New York

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Via Gawker, the NYC-centric weblog, I found Lockhart Steele’s Lower-East-Side-centric weblog, which demonstrates that the sort of things that only happen on TV happen all the time in NYC:

Standing on our roof with a friend looking down on Rivington, we're talking about the Mexican restaurant across the street. "The only person I know who's gone there got food poisoning," he says. Right then, an ambulance pulls up in front of the place and two paramedics rush in.

Also read about the Eldridge Street Hot Springs. Anyway, through the LES blog I found web host Fictional Company (“FictCo has a hosting plan that's right for you, as well as several that are wrong for you”), which led me to Tiny Ninja Theater! Check out their publicity stills from Romeo & Juliet. And here’s a description of their dramatization of the 2000 election:

The show begins with director Weinstein sneaking across the stage with a suitcase purporting to contain uncounted Florida ballots. From this suitcase, and another beside it, emerged not only the ballots but a host of other characters including Hillary Clinton (Princess Leia) Rudy Giuliani (Dr. Doom) and a dramatic re-creation of the death of the posthumously elected Senator from Missouri, Mel Carnahan, performed by a smiley 4-inch-high bright-pink-foam computer company mascot and a posterboard cutout of an out-of-control airplane.