That's the vibe at Buvette Chez Simone (4869, avenue du Parc; 514-750-6577; buvettechezsimone.com), an oaky bar in Mile End with sly design touches and a comfy brasserie menu.
Premiering Wednesday, it is a sometimes clever, just as often clichéd mix of dystopian tropes, with performances ranging from nicely modulated to almost over the top, and some sly design that, along with some twisted PSAs, also accounts for most of the story's humor.
Mr. de Magistris, who was elected just over a year ago, went a step further, intimating that the cockroach report was part of a sly, occult design to discredit the city and its political class.
Few reporters have noticed that that comparison turns out to be full of sly tricks designed to make the tax cut look less irresponsible than it is.
The ability to measure all our activities remotely is opening up new avenues for speculation, as anyone – from corporations to insurance firms to governments – can now design sly compensatory schemes to elicit desired behaviour from consumers chasing a quick buck.
Sly's asymmetrical design is on-trend and funky, and Mundo Unico plays with yellow and blue pastels.
Alice Winocour's "Disorder" is a tightly wound spring of a movie, a tour de force of sound design and sly editing that implies much more than it shows.
The city's zoning ordinances are complicated... Tells about Trump's presence on the far West Side, where he is building elements of the Riverside South project... Donald Trump has been denounced as greedy, selfish, indifferent to good urban design, and sly as a fox.
So Ms. Kellogg and Mr. Kusurelis designed a sly organizing device: a walnut-veneer plywood wall that runs from the front to the back of the loft to hide the working parts of the home, including closets, storage, laundry, two bathrooms and, halfway up the 14-foot ceiling, two guest rooms, one reachable only by ladder.
File next to: Sly Stone, Fifth Dimension, Free Design, Rotary Connection.
And the concentric pink and black rings of "Sun and Surf," hovering above a polyp-edged strand of white-on-charcoal drips, evokes Gottlieb, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock with a sly, ineffable ease, both of design and paint handling.
