This historical thriller offers a fascinating look at early police work among the untested and ill-trained "copper stars" who patrolled New York in the 19th century.
The hourlong piece, performed by Armitage Gone! Dance of New York, unspools in a shimmer of dull copper and softly gleaming silver and gold that is contained by delicate bead curtains at the sides and back and pricked with tiny copper stars.
The novel, Ms. Faye's second, proceeds from the intersection of three defining events: a devastating fire downtown, the failure of the Irish potato crop and the formation of New York's copper-star-badged police force, which provides employment for, among others, her protagonist, a former bartender named Timothy Wilde.
Copper is certainly the star of the décor.
Copper denounces the conceit of "star" correspondents, says anyone can do their job.
The light reflects off a blue wall spangled with stars, except the stars are constellations of copper pennies.
Copper is synthesized in massive stars and is present in the Earth's crust at a concentration of about 50 parts per million (ppm), where it occurs as native copper or in minerals such as the copper sulfides chalcopyrite and chalcocite, the copper carbonates azurite and malachite, and the copper(I) oxide mineral cuprite.
She is the outrageously provocative heiress to a copper fortune and an aspiring rock star.
Posey became the Giants first three-time All-Star catcher since Walker Copper in 1946-48.
Her sculptures are made of transformative materials with metaphysical meanings: like honey, which is the nectar of the stars (because bees pollinate to the rising of certain stars), salt which is a mineral and copper which is a conductor.
LaFace's cream is the star of an exceptional line that includes a copper-rich facial wash and eye cream, available at Shen, on Court Street in Brooklyn.
