• “Whereas its city counterparts at New York magazine have taken aggressively to the Web with blogs and videos — and skyrocketing traffic (27 million page views in June vs. 3.5 million in June 2006) — the New Yorker, it seems, moves at the pace of a New Yorker story: slowly, methodically, uniquely their own .” (Via the OUPblog.)
• While the New Yorker eases into YouTube like an old man getting into a tub, others have less timid in plumbing its deep and marvelous waters. There be no dragons, but there be Eartha Kitt.
(I know: Clumsy segue, transparent ploy. But really, that clip will delight and invigorate your afternoon, I promise! Also, I need help figuring out what exactly the male dancer is doing around the 2:04 mark.)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
