Scott acquired a passionate following in "downtown" circles, but the fashion establishment remained unconvinced.
"We were all doing it," recalled Girouard, then well known in downtown circles for her Chatham Square loft parties, "because we wanted to".
(Chinen) ★ LIFT OFF! REMEMBERING THOMAS CHAPIN (Wednesday) Thomas Chapin, a multi-instrumentalist especially beloved in downtown circles, died a decade ago of leukemia, at age 40.
(Chinen) LIFT OFF! REMEMBERING THOMAS CHAPIN (Wednesday) Thomas Chapin, a multi-instrumentalist especially beloved in downtown circles, died a decade ago of leukemia, at age 40.
Nauman, who turns fifty-four this year, is the most influential American artist of his generation, and the enthusiasm that the show has inspired, at least in downtown circles, seems less a critical verdict than the kind of all-purpose glee that welcomed the Wells Fargo wagon rolling into town in "The Music Man".
The New York premiere of "Girls," the series developed, written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, alongside Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet and Jemima Kirke, as striving, post-collegiate Brooklynites, was a must-attend event for culture, media and downtown circles in New York on Wednesday — a generational segue.
Given the nature of the condition he imagines, and the fact that Farnsworth sees and remembers almost nothing of his journeys beyond the compulsion itself – "He circled a downtown rotary.
Egyptians would drive around it, stuck in their cars, incessantly honking their horns, to get past a congested downtown traffic circle before veering off in different directions.
"We feel pain, pain," said Kobrah Abbasi Nejad, 53, roaming past the fires flickering in a downtown traffic circle around 2 a.m. on Monday.
He has also drawn hostility from many within the small downtown music circle, including luminaries like the Lounge Lizards' John Lurie and the saxophonist John Zorn.
