Metro US (New York, Boston, Philadelphia) 2014 Media Kit

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NEW YORK
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
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Video: Burger
King’s Hands Free
Whopper Holder is
a real thing. A real,
really gross thing.
Leah McSweeney wears one of her Supreme Bitch T-shirts. Sales exploded when Rihanna
wore a hat with the logo while she was on vacation. / BESS ADLER, RIHANNA’S FACEBOOK
A Supreme
court battle
THOUSANDS OF COURSES.
State University of New York
A MILLION REASONS.
Fashion Institute of Technology
Where creativity gets down to business.
Damani Lomas
Accessories Design
Fair wage. Intern
Justice says it
is filing several
lawsuits this
summer over
unpaid internships.
After 10-hour days photographing for look books
and adding to a website for
a fashion designer, Erica
van Rabenswaay, 24, wondered whether she should
be paid for her internship.
Van Rabenswaay sued
designer Norma Kamali
last week, saying the company violated federal labor
laws by requiring her to
work full-time without
pay.
For three months, her
only compensation was a
MetroCard, she said.
She took the internship understanding it was
unpaid, she said. Instead
of mentorship or training,
she alleged in the lawsuit,
which demands back wages, van Rabenswaay said
what was an “apprenticeship” was instead helping
Kamali, for free.
Her court filing is only
the beginning. Intern Justice, a group that helps
interns sue employers,
warns it is the first of similar lawsuits they will issue.
“Young people think
they are getting a toehold
in their chosen profession,” Maurice Pianko, the
founder of Intern Justice,
said. “Many employers are
just looking for free labor.”
Ultimately, the designer hired van Rabenswaay
-— for a month, she said,
when she was abruptly
fired. She soon spotted
an advertisement seeking
another “apprentice,” she
said, but offering no pay.
ALISON
BOWEN
alison.bowen@metro.us
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Erica van Rabenswaay, right, is suing designer Norma Kamali, left. / GETTY IMAGES
Teacher evaluation plan finalized
Video: Brits take
offense with Ikea
garden gnome ad
“There are strong
measures to help
remove ineffective teachers and
principals, but
let’s be clear: New
York is not going
to fire its way to
academic success.”
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Fighting back against
unpaid internships
2
Survival of the fittest. Leah McSweeney is being sued by streetwear
line Supreme for infringing on the brand with her Supreme Bitch
T-shirt. Two of a kind. “I’ve never claimed to be original,” she says. PAGE 04
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NEW YORK
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Dennis Walcott will head the new system. / GETTY IMAGES
Public safety
City offers free
self-defense
classes after
hate crimes
The City Council is offering free self-defense
training throughout the
city in light of a recent
spike in reports of hate
crimes.
The training will
teach violence prevention strategies and
New York City public
schools finally have
a teacher evaluation
system, handed down
by Commissioner James
King at the State Department of Education.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
charged the state DOE
with coming up with a
plan by June 1 after the
city’s Department of
Education and the United
Federation of Teachers
failed to agree on a plan
on their own.
At the Celebrate Israel
Parade, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg called King’s
plan “a huge rebuff to the
UFT’s obstructionism.”
However, Michael
Mulgrew, the teachers’
union president, expressed satisfaction.
“The New York City
Department [of Education]
will not be able to fire its
way to a great school system,” Mulgrew told NY1.
With King’s evaluation system, 40 percent of
teacher evaluations will
be based on student performance, and 60 percent
on other measures.
According to NY1,
teachers who get the
lowest rating two years in
a row can be fired, even
with tenure.
DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Underground
safety tips to the LGBT
community, according
to the council.
The first class will
take place at 4 p.m. on
Saturday, June 8, at the
LGBT Center.
Other classes will
soon be added.
Interested New
Yorkers can register by
calling 212-788-5613
or emailing events@
council.nyc.gov
DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Second Avenue
subway has bad
track record
Residents near dig sites
have long complained
about the disruption
caused by Second Avenue subway construction, which began in
2007. A Daily News
investigation has now
uncovered a series of
safety violations by con-
Subway blasting / GETTY IMAGES
Original Content
90% of Metro’s news is produced by Metro journalists.
Metro has a larger editorial staff worldwide than CNN.
tractors at the tunnels
on the east side.
Within the last two
years, investigations
have turned up 18
safety violations.
Violations have
involved hitting live gas
lines, exposure to silica
dust, improper handling
of contaminated soil
and a “controlled” blast
that sent debris shooting six stories high.
EMILY JOHNSON

4. Metro US
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Metro US
Launch Date
2004
2001
2000
Daily Circulation
556,899
309,323
130,122
117,454
Daily Readership
1,227,009
709,330
234,803
282,876
Distribution
225 Metro Ambassadors
2,200 Metro Boxes
180 Metro Ambassadors
900 Metro Boxes
45 Metro Ambassadors
500 Metro Boxes
800 Metro Boxes
Metropolitan
New York Area:
Metropolitan
Boston Area:
Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn,
Bronx, and commuter
stations in Westchester
and New Jersey
Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth,
Suffolk, Essex and Bristol
counties in Massachusetts
The Metro Reader
Metropolitan
Philadelphia Area:
Philadelphia, the Philadelphia
suburbs and South Jersey area
Average HHI*
$90,900
$91,600
$96,500
$83,800
Median Age
43 yrs
44 yrs
36 yrs
47 yrs
Employed
73%
75%
73%
69%
Source: CAC (Sept-13). Scarborough (2012-13), *Employed.

5. A Leading Position in Manhattan
250
000s daily copies
200
223
DELIVERING MORE THAN TWICE
THE CIRCULATION OF TRADITIONAL
Newspapers IN MANHATTAN
150
100
91
50
65
New York
Times
New York
Post
Source: Daily News / Post AAM (Sept-2012), Times Estimated based on AAM (Sept-2012) / CAC Audit Report (Sept-2013)
Daily Circulation (Mon-Fri) in 000s copies
52
New York
Daily News

6. A Leading Position in New York City
300
298
000s daily copies
250
200
226
150
165
142
100
50
New York
Daily News
New York
Post
Source: Daily News / Post AAM (Sept-2012), Times Estimated based on AAM (Sept-2012) / CAC Audit Report (Sept-2013)
Daily Circulation (Mon-Fri) in 000s copies
New York
Times

7. Metro is No. 1 in Philadelphia
000s daily copies
100
80
86
More circulation
than both the
daily news and
inquirer combined!
60
40
72
40
32
20
Philadelphia
Inquirer
Philadelphia
Daily News
Philadelphia
Daily News
& Inquirer
with more circulation than the traditional paid newspapers in Philadelphia
Source: AAM (Mar-13 & Sept-13), CAC Audit Report (Sept-13) Philadelphia County Average Mon-Fri *Total

8. Metro delivers more than double the
traditional paid newspapers’ circulation in
Boston city zone
000s daily copies
150
132
100
81
50
0
45
Boston
Globe
Source: AAM (Sept-13) / CAC (Sept-13), Boston City Zone Print Circulation (Mon-Fri)
Boston
Herald

9. Metro is the 4th largest
US newspaper
Top Circulated
Newspapers in the US
1,471
1,317
4
#
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
677
New York Times
557
Washington Post
398
Los Angeles Times
368
Chicago Tribune
335
Source: CAC (Sept-13), AAM PSC (Sept-13) Mon-Fri print circulation
405
New York Daily News

10. Readership Development (2006-2013)
Index = 100 (2006)
130
METRO: +3% AVERAGE
ANNUAL* GROWTH OVER
THE PAST 6 YEARS
120
110
100
90
80
PAID FOR: -5% AVERAGE
ANNUAL* DECLINE OVER
THE PAST 6 YEARS
70
60
50
40
30
2006 R1
2008 R1
2010 R1
Source: Scarborough (2006-13 R1). Universe = Adults 18+ in New York, Boston & Philadelphia
Paid for: NY – Times, Post, Daily News, Newsday / BST – Globe, Herald / PHL – Inquirer, Daily News
*CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
2012 R1
Metro US
Paid For
Linear (Metro US)

11. Reaching the Young Urban Professional
Metro
US
New York
Times
Boston
Globe
Philadelphia
Inquirer
43
51
59
59
Women
53%
47%
50%
45%
Adults 18-34
34%
26%
13%
16%
Adults 18-49
62%
48%
31%
31%
Adults 21-54
71%
55%
38%
36%
Adults 55+
25%
41%
57%
58%
Employed
73%
69%
58%
54%
Parents,
children in HH
37%
29%
25%
24%
Median Age
Source: Scarborough 2012-13. Universe = 28.3 million adults 18+ living in New York, Boston, Philadelphia.
Metro US
Delivers
the youngest
audience!

12. Metro’s Exclusive Readers
Metro enjoys an exclusive, dedicated audience that doesn’t
read other (Monday-Friday) newspapers.
83%
Boston Globe
81%
New York Times
Philadelphia Inquirer
78%
Boston Herald
78%
New York Post
78%
New York Daily News
Source: Scarborough 2012-13
68%

13. Editorial Framework
Written for the aspirational, educated, young professional
concentrated commuter markets.
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SPORTS
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
2
Hot dogs
Nathan’s
re-opens in
Coney Island
When Nathan’s
opened its doors quietly yesterday ahead
of a bigger grand
re-opening tomorrow,
hot dogs were still the
staple of the menu.
But the establishment
has added a raw bar
and expanded its
beverage options to
include wine and a
bigger beer selection.
Customers who want
more than the usual
hot dog and crinklecut fries can get a
dozen oysters for
$17.50, according to
the Daily News.
NEWS
2
CULTURE
EMILY JOHNSON
Pipeline stirs
safety concerns
New Yorkers march through the city to protest fracking and the coming of the Spectra pipeline. / ERIC WALTON, OCCUPY THE PIPELINE
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London woman
blames unemployment on good looks
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PHOTOS: Devastation caused by
Oklahoma tornado
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Gerard Depardieu:
Tsarnaev brothers
more American than
Chechen
Public concern. The
new pipeline will
carry natural gas
that is extracted
from fracking.
Concerns are growing
about the planned Spectra
pipeline on the west side
of lower Manhattan, but
what some may not know
is that their concerns
may be coming too late:
The pipeline is already in
place.
The Spectra pipeline
runs along the Jersey
Shore under the Hudson
River to Gansevoort Street
and to a Con Ed power
station at 14th Street and
Ninth Avenue, according
to Sane Energy Project cofounder Denise Katzman.
According to Katzman,
the pressure of a pipeline
becomes more intense
the bigger the radius of
the pipeline. The Spectra
pipeline has a radius of 30
inches. That is the same
size as the pipeline that
exploded in San Bruno,
Calif., in 2010.
Nothing in common
“The only thing that our pipeline and the
San Bruno pipeline have in common is that
they are natural gas pipelines.”
Spectra spokesperson
Claire Donohue, Sane
Energy Project co-founder,
noted that the well-known
San Bruno pipeline accident occurred in a suburban area in California and
wreaked massive damage,
killing eight people.
A Spectra spokesperson
said that these concerns
are completely unfounded,
and that the pipeline was
“built to meet or exceed all
federal safety regulations.”
DANIELLE
TCHOLAKIAN
danielle.tcholakian@metro.us
Hate. Latest in string
of anti-gay attacks
happens in New York
Quoted
“If you are
victimized,
harassed,
assaulted—we
want to know
about it.”
Ray Kelly
A march against hate crimes took place Monday. / AARON ADLER, METRO
Early yesterday, another
hate crime occurred in
Manhattan, just days
after a man was shot by
another man shouting
homophobic slurs.
Two men were walking in SoHo when two
men started shouting
anti-gay slurs, police said.
The shouting developed
into a confrontation.
Anti-gay attacks are
up almost 70 percent this
year, according to Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Kelly and Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
condemned the attacks
in a press conference
yesterday afternoon.
DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Traffic accident
School bus
crash injures
three in
Brooklyn
Three people were
injured when a school
bus collided with a car
in Brooklyn yesterday
morning, DNAinfo.
com reported.
The crash, near
East Fifth Street and
Avenue C in Kensington, left both the
front of the bus and
driver’s side of the car
badly damaged.
Two of the injured
were taken to Kings
County Hospital while
the third was taken to
Maimonides Medical
Center. The ages and
identities of the patients have not been
released. EMILY JOHNSON
Web giant
Yahoo moves
into old NY
Times office
Yahoo Inc. announced
that its New York
employees would be
moving into the old
home of the New York
Times on 43rd Street.
The Californiabased web giant currently employs a New
York workforce of
500 people scattered
across three office
spaces across the city.
EMILY JOHNSON
Under ‘Arrested’
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Funke-D
up at
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• Photos of
yesterday’s Never
Nudes Unite
convention in Times
Square
• New footage of the
upcoming season
• Two full minutes of
the best Tobias Funke
moments
• How visitors to the
Bluth banana stand
responded to the
“big yellow joint.”
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Weekend, May 17-19, 2013
TELEVISION
10
Guzzling martinis
with Lucille Bluth
Interview. Jessica
Walter slips right
back into the boozy
matriarch role that
made her famous
— again.
By her count, Jessica Walter has been a member of
the Screen Actors Guild for
50 years, a period of time
that encompasses a vast
body of work — dramatic
(“Grand Prix”), suspenseful
(“Play Misty for Me,” opposite Clint Eastwood), supernatural (“Dr. Strange”) and,
most recently, comedic
(“Archer”). But for Walter,
the forthcoming return of
“Arrested Development”
offers a reassuring reminder that her career has transcended not just different
genres, but different generations.
“Certainly demographically, there are probably
people who thought I was
dead,” Walter jokes.
Returning as boozy matriarch Lucille Bluth, Walter says virtually every line
of dialogue in the 15 new
episodes creator Mitchell
Hurwitz wrote has a double
(or even triple) meaning,
much like those in the 53
episodes of the show that
were broadcast during its
three seasons on Fox. But
because each episode now
focuses on a different character instead of simply following Jason Bateman’s Michael Bluth, conversational
contexts shift frequently
— a change that provided a
considerable challenge for
the cast as they navigated
Hurwitz’s latticework of
plot strands and one-liners.
“We didn’t know a whole
lot a lot of the time, which
makes it much more difficult,” she admits. “In the
end, it all worked out, but
it’s a strange way to work
because you don’t have all
of the materials.”
Still, even after a sevenyear hiatus between the
show’s cancellation and
its Netflix rebirth, Walter
says she slipped easily back
into the role. “The thing
about our show, which I
think you probably realize
from watching it, is that
the writing is so characterspecific,” she observes.
She says her maternal
instinct kicked in as soon
as she encountered actor
Tony Hale, who plays her
tragic son Buster, maimed
after he ignored a warning to beware of what he
thought somebody was
saying was Lucille. As viewers will remember, it was
really a loose seal, which
ate his hand whole.
“Once I heard Tony’s
voice and once I saw him,
there he was with the hook
and his pathetic demeanor
— he was my little Busty
again.”
Between “Arrested Development” and “Archer,”
on which she plays another alkie mom, Walter finds
herself in the midst of a
remarkable career renaissance, a fact she’s grateful
for, regardless of whether
people know her prior to
playing these cantankerous, irresistibly manipulative mothers.
“I’m so glad they think
of something,” she says
humbly. “At my age I’m
privileged that they think
of something, so it doesn’t
bother me a bit if they
think of me as Lucille.”
Quoted
“People have been
really nice — they
don’t seem to think
of Lucille as horrible,
thank God. But as
long as they’re
thinking of me, it
makes me happy.”
Walter
TODD
GILCHRIST
letters@metro.us
Flashback
Do not play
‘Misty’ for her
We did not ask Jessica
Walter about that movie
where she has sex with
Clint Eastwood. For his
1971 directorial debut
“Play Misty for Me,” Clint
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SPORTS
SPORTS
www.metro.us
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Cavaliers won the
top pick in the NBA
Draft for the second
time in three years last
night.
Cleveland had a
15.6 percent chance to
win the lottery after
finishing with the
third-worst record in
the league. Orlando
had the worst record
in the league but will
pick No. 2, while the
Wizards got a nice
bonus as they moved
up to No. 3 despite
having the eighthworst record. METRO
loved ones with a knifewielding fury. She was so
good she was borderline
uncastable for years —
that’s how terrifying
her performance was.
But she’s not known for
that character as much
anymore, thankfully.
“I have
people that
are my age
and older
who know
who I am, who
remember some of my
work from the old days,”
says Walter. “Then I used
to get, ‘Wow,
my mother
really likes you.’
Then I’d get, ‘My
grandma really
likes you.’ And now I
get ‘I really like you!’ So
how can I be unhappy
about that?”
+
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
GOING OUT
36
Charity
Durant
donates
$1M
Oklahoma City
forward Kevin Durant
announced yesterday
he was donating $1
million to the Red
Cross in Oklahoma
after a devastating
tornado hit Moore,
Okla., on Monday
afternoon. Durant
has been with the
franchise all five
years they’ve been in
the state. The Thunder organization also
announced it would
be donating $1 million to recovery.
Online
Trending
online at
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The Nets gave Phil
Jackson an offer he
could refuse.
Jackson told Dan
Patrick on his radio
show yesterday that
he was impressed by
what the Nets offered
him to take over as
coach — just not
enough to actually
accept.
“The Brooklyn
situation is a good
situation,” Jackson
told Patrick.
The reason Jackson
didn’t accept the
position was because
it “was coaching basically.” Jackson would
prefer to have a say in
personnel issues if he
takes over with a new
team. METRO
The Rangers now see their season slip sliding away after a late goal by the Bruins in Game 3. / GETTY IMAGES
Bruins nab 3-0 lead
on late Game 3 goal
NHL playoffs.
The Rangers now
face an almost
insurmountable
deficit in the series.
The Rangers’ best effort
in the Eastern Conference
semifinals simply wasn’t
good enough.
As a result, a season
which began with expectations of playing meaningful games in June is one
Highlights of
Bruins-Rangers
Game 3 at MSG
Rangers notes:
Girardi earns
Tortorella’s trust
Playing the Field:
What cities should
host the Super Bowl?
Game 4
If the Rangers are going
to pull the reverse of the
infamous Yankees-Red
Sox series in 2004, they
need to start in Game 4.
The Bruins have lost after
leading by three games
before — in 2010 against
Philadelphia.
•
Bruins at Rangers
Game 4, tomorrow
at 7, CNBC
Lundqvist could not find it,
and Paille pounced on the
loose rebound.
As the Bruins celebrated, Lundqvist stared up at
the pinwheel ceiling, frustration etched on his face.
The Rangers led 1-0
through two periods on a
goal by Taylor Pyatt in the
first period. Johnny Boychuk tied in 3:10 into the
third period.
DENIS
GORMAN
Knicks’ brass emphasize positives
2
3
loss away from ending.
The Rangers trail the
Bruins in the best-of-seven
series 3-0 after dropping a
2-1 decision in Game 3 last
night at the Garden.
Daniel Paille’s goalmouth tap-in at 16:29 of
the third was the gamewinning goal.
The sequence that led to Paille’s
goal began with a Shawn
Thornton shot that hit
Henrik Lundqvist and
popped behind the goaltender. The puck never
crossed the goal line, but
Woodson wouldn’t comment on Amar’e Stoudemire’s status for
2013-14, only saying they would “play it by ear.” / GETTY IMAGES
The Knicks wrapped up
their season-ending media
obligations by ushering
head coach Mike Woodson
and president Glen Grunwald in front of the masses
at their facilities yesterday.
Neither wanted to discuss personnel decisions,
but they were eager to
heap praise on a team not
many pegged to go deep in
the postseason. Grunwald
refused to get into the specifics of what he plans on
doing with the roster this
summer, but he did allow
Quoted
“I still say that
based on where we
started and how we
assembled our team,
this was, to me, a
wonderful season.”
Mike Woodson, Knicks head coach
that changes will be made.
“[The team’s salary cap]
probably is not likely to
get under the tax thresh-
olds, but sign-and-trades
are available, although you
just can’t acquire a player
that way if you’re over the
threshold,” said Grunwald.
“We’ll see how it all plays
out. Free agency is always a
little unpredictable.”
Woodson is looking forward to stacking on another training camp to further
emphasize his schemes.
“To win our division,
[and] to secure the second
seed, people didn’t think
we could do [any] of those
things.” TONY WILLIAMS
There are 30 types of oysters on the menu at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, which recently celebrated its centennial. / BRYAN SMITH
Top 3
Tips from
a pro
1
Start small: Chef
Sandy Ingber of
Oyster Bar in Grand
Central advises: “Blue
Points are my choice for
beginners to start with.
They’re plump and
mild, easy to eat.”
2
Get naked: “I personally like to chew an
oyster naked at first to
get the full flavor profile,” says Ingber. “Then
I will put stuff on top.
Always try them naked
first and chew.”
3
Choose carefully:
When purchasing
oysters from fisheries, they must come
from certified waters
and must be tagged.
Ingber’s tip for buying
directly: Look for a
tag. “Don’t buy them if
there is no tag — ask
to see it. Also, oysters
must be closed tight.
Don’t use if they’re
gapped or smell bad.”
WELLBEING
22
Fitness. RDJ’s
trainer gives us the
moves that turned
him into the hero.
No thanks
Jackson liked
offer from
Brooklyn
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Ernest Hemingway waxed
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for breakfast. And scientists have confirmed that
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So it’s no wonder that
oysters are as popular as
ever. Read on for our guide
to eating the best bivalves
across the city, and at great
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Maison Premiere
With a happy hour in
place all year round, this
Williamsburg cocktail
den boasts an impressive
oyster list of more than a
dozen fresh picks sourced
from bays across the country. For $1 each, diners can
choose from little gems
including the East End,
Montauk Pearl, Kenny’s
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Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
21 W. 17th St.
212-691-1011
Crave Fishbar
Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
945 Second Ave.
646-895-9585
L&W Oyster Co.
The John Dory
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Ainsworth Park
Every Tuesday,
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111 E. 18th St.
212-673-2467
Cafe Tallulah
Monday-Thursday, 5-7 p.m.
and Friday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m.
240 Columbus Ave.
212-209-1055
Offered Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.
298 Bedford Ave., 347-335-0446
At this market-driven
oyster bar, the atmosphere
and menu are decidedly
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include $2 oysters —
sourced from both the East
and West coasts — including hard-to-find varieties
like Belon oysters from
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Offered daily, 5-7 p.m. and
11 p.m. to midnight
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Grand Central
Oyster Bar
At this Midtown mainstay,
executive chef Sandy
Ingber says after the late
1990s and the economic
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from all over the country.
Now they’re as popular as
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on my menu every day
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Monday-Wednesday, 4:30-7 p.m.;
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important that Robert
was extremely fit and had
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only it had to look realistic. He’s meant to be a
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“He’d recently finished
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and definition for long
periods of time isn’t easy.
He had to get ‘re-buff.’ We
were doing two-hour sessions, three to four days
a week. By the time we
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How he got
there
“Robert’s cardio was
never an issue,” Bose
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people don’t want to talk
about it, but the truth is,
he’s 48. He’s above the
curve when it comes to
being a fit individual,
but this is a young man’s
training he’s doing.”
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On his day off
muscle bulk, Downey
Jr. spent the first month
doing traditional weight
training: push-ups,
bench presses, etc. Once
he and Bose were satisfied with his mass, they
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performance training, a
technique that engages
all muscle groups simultaneously: “FPT isn’t just
for aesthetics,” says Bose.
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designed to get you muscular through strength.
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gets as many muscles
and as many planes of
movement engaged at
any one time (as possible),” he explains.
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moves is this: “The body
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time you’re doing an
upper-body movement,
your legs should never
be completely dormant.
The core [from the lower
part of your rib cage to
the lower part of your
hip girdle] should always
be engaged. The aim of
FPT is to do things more
dynamically. So we’ll
push sleds, we use battling ropes, sledgehammers, tires and so on.”
“Robert is constantly
doing something. But
in order to spend time
with his wife, he does
a lot of Tracy Anderson
cardio classes. And he’s
a brown belt in kung fu,
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that he’s not working
with me, he’s sparring
with his coach, Eric
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Overseen by the Jackson estate, “Michael” takes tracks
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The real question will
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Some within the industry are still skeptical. But
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That just feels like a
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Weezer’s current dates,
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band’s first two albums
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debut, which has come
to be known as “The
Blue Album” because of
the background against
which the band stands,
and their 1996 followup, “Pinkerton.” On the
first night of the engagement, the band goes
through a short set of
greatest hits in reverse
chronological order and
plays the first album in
its entirety. On the second night, they begin
with a different set of
hits and then play
“Pinkerton” from start
to finish.
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doubts, maybe it will totally
fail and sell half as much as
‘The Blue Album’ or something,” says Cuomo. “And it
came out and sold a tenth
of ‘The Blue Album’ —
which, in those days, was
an incredible drop. And it
wasn’t just commercial, but
the critics pretty uniformly
hated it. And it was just the
beginnings of online feedback too, so you could go
on Amazon and see all the
negative feedback from the
fans of the first record. And
boy, that was just crushing
for me, all of that together.
And it took awhile to build
up the confidence to even
step back in the spotlight
again.”
During the band’s hibernation, fans began to take
to the brash sounds and
emotional lyrics of “Pinkerton,” and the album arguably became responsible
for the advent of the genre
known as emo. But when
Cuomo did step back into
that spotlight, Weezer
emerged as something of
an armored unit, with an
arsenal of songs that mostly
seemed to be short, poppy
and almost escapist, like
“Island in the Sun” and
“Hash Pipe.” And listening
to the recently released
deluxe edition of “Pinkerton” with rare acoustic versions of devastating songs
like “Why Bother?”, one
has to wonder if Cuomo
thinks he ever reached
down so deeply again in his
songwriting.
“Yes. I do,” he says before
a long pause. “But — I
know some of our core fans
would get upset when I say
something like this — but I
feel like ‘Beverly Hills’ was
an extremely honest and
deep song, and they take it
to be the opposite, which
has always perplexed me.”
PAT HEALY
pat.healy@metro.us
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The 130,000-ton Carnival Dream — Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest and largest ship — sits off the coast of Monaco, ready to patrol the waters of the Caribbean.
Planning a family vacation can be a daunting experience when trying to
accommodate the entire clan Cruise ships offer a one-stop shop, complete
with luxury, entertainment — and an exorbitant amount of food
Five star: Five-star cruises
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Before you go!
Check the weather: To a
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the cost.
Two star: These “economy” lines are generally
more sparse in every way
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meaning they are less expensive, smaller and more
crowded.
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or five Caribbean cruises
and repeat very few islands — and have a completely different experience on each.
One-week Caribbean
cruises come in three distinct flavors: Eastern,
Western and Southern.
Short cruises of less than
a week generally include
ports in the Bahamas and
sometimes Key West, Fla.
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The Eastern Caribbean is
often the choice of firsttime cruisers and those
veterans who relish more
at-sea days with generally
three or four ports of call.
In addition to sunsplashed beaches fringed
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important planning lies in
choosing the ship itself.
There are some two dozen
different cruise lines serving the States. Like hotels
and restaurants, cruises are
graded by star, indicating
ships’ relative luxuries.
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Caribbean
cruises afford the choice
of more island destinations-— usually as many
as five, which often also
means fewer days at sea.
A Southern Caribbean
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often 10 to 12 nights.
San Juan is also a
popular embarkation port for ships
on
Southern
Caribbean itineraries, which often
make stops in
many destinations
like Martinique, Dominica and Grenada.
And not to be forgotten, winter cruises to
the Mexican Riviera are
also very popular as
they offer the allure of
warm
temperatures,
beaches and plenty of
shopping.
Tips
The Western Caribbean offers the best options for
water-sports enthusiasts
as it is considered the best
for snorkeling and scuba
diving. Typical Western
Caribbean ports include
Key West, Jamaica, Belize,
Grand
Cayman
and
Cozumel.
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Ports visited: Bahamas and
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When: April 18-25
Price: Starts at $999
Ports visited: Puerto Rico, St.
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Departs from: Fort
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the beauty of Charleston
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Name: Elvis Cruise
When: Nov. 4-8
Price: $599
Ports visited:
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Departs from:
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Singles Travel International announces their Life
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Variety Cruises’s first Gay Cruise program will be held on the Panorama (pictured).
Cruising 101 — for
The world of cruising can be
daunting to one who has
never experienced the joy of
sitting on a sunny deck and
sipping frozen beverages.
For cruise virgins, Jeanne
Wyndrum, senior vice president of Cruise.com, shares
these tips.
Find out
what’s included
A lot of people have mis-
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conceptions about what
they will need to cover.
What is included: Meals,
entertainment and accommodations. What is additional once you get on
board: soft drinks and alcohol, spa treatments, shore
excursions, certain dining
experiences, the Internet
and gratuities. Those
are the additions
you should be
ready for when
Bigger is better
These boats are so big,
they can’t stop at all ports.
When Royal Caribbean’s
Allure of the Seas is
launched in November, it
will share the accolade of
biggest cruise ship in the
world with its sister, Oasis of the Seas. These sea
monsters weigh in at
225,000 tons and carry up
to 6,300 passengers and
with three celebrity life
coaches, take classes in
styling, yoga, cooking,
wine tasting and travel
through the Caribbean on
the Celebrity Solstice.
Calling all the
single ladies
In honor of The King’s
75th birthday (if he were
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Carnival Fascination
features tribute performers and presentations
by
friends of Elvis,
and includes
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Name: Gay Cruise
When: Aug. 20-27
Price: Starting at $2,290, per
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Ports visited: Mykonos, Santorini and other Greek islands
Departs from: Athens
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Variety Cruises’ first Gay
Cruise program includes a
buffet breakfast
and one meal
daily, Arabian
Night, a BBQ
(weather permitting), a
Captain’s
Dinner,
use
of
snorkeling
equipment and
a multilingual
cruise escort
so you can
explore the
Greek islands
in
style.
DOROTHY ROBINSON
dorothy.robinson@metro.us
2,160 crew (now that's a
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large, they can’t visit
every port of call, but
Puerto Rico, St. Thomas
and Jamaica have built
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Top three most popular
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Miami — Key West —
Cozumel
Los Angeles — Mazatlan —
Puerto Vallarta — Cabo
San Lucas
Miami — Grand Cayman —
Belize — Cozumel
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your documentation exactly. If not, you could be
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sure your passport isn’t expired and all of your paperwork is in order.
Have all proper documentation when you get to
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from the city center, as
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center of the city, so you
might want to prepurchase a shore excursion. It
will save you time if you
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city layout and what you
want to see since your
time at port is limited.
Book your shore
excursion early
It depends on the place
you are visiting, but in
some cases you should
book in advance. If you
wait until you get on the
ship, that’s okay, but
don’t wait until the
morning of.
cruise expert Stewart Chiron, “People can eat at
whatever time they want.”
For Cruise.com Senior Vice
President Jeanne Wyndrum, the open-ended
schedule transfigures the
whole trip: “It kind of eases your day.”
Specialty
restaurants
As ship size increases, so
does the space for new
restaurants: “Like steakhouses, Italian, French,
Asian,” Chiron says. The
new spots feel less like dining halls and more like
chic eateries — “The food
quality, the atmosphere,
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On the Carnival Dream, there’s a speciality pasta bar for when you need your carb fix.
and the accoutrements are
much different,” he says.
cruise at some point,” says
Chiron.
Celebrity chefs
Healthier bites
More space for restaurants
means more gigs for chefs
— gigs restaurants are filling with name-grabbing
celebrity cooks. In 2008,
The North Atlantic cruise
line Cunard tapped New
England chef Todd English
to author some menus.
The next year, Crystal
cruises brought Master
Chef Nobu Matsuhisa on
board for the same calling.
Expect to see more: “I
wouldn’t be surprised to
see Emeril [Lagasse] or one
of these guys doing a
Cruise lines have traditionally made accommodation
for passengers with specific dietary needs — just
that, now, those glutenfree and low-cholesterol
options are starting to become mainstays on cabin
menus. “It’s not like,
‘Here’s a few bits of lettuce,’” says Wyndrum.
“These are very good entrees, and they’re quite
popular.”
DREW HINSHAW
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OASIS OF THE SEAS
The Oasis of the Sea boasts The Cupcake Cupboard, a
dedicated shop that hosts hands-on decorating classes.
Culinary
classes
Here’s where the realms
of food and onboard entertainment start to
blur: Norwegian Cruise
Line packs a training
kitchen on many of its
newer vessels — “They’ll
have like a theater setup, as if you were in a
class,” says Chiron.
“You’ll have the table
and kitchen set up, and
the chef will come out.”
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Cozumel
o’clock, you can actually
start to board around
noon. You’ll be free to
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all afternoon — this really
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vacation and helps you
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Here’s how one thing affects the other: Heftier
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The culinary tact of cruise
liners has changed quite a
bit in the past decade, particularly in the following
ways:
The top trend in cruise dining has less to do with
what you eat than when
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days when passengers received a set time — typically 6 or 8 p.m. — for their
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those who might be new to this adventure
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cruising slowly ’round the
Mediterranean. There’s a
new raft of exciting ways
of seeing the world by
boat.
The Gota Canal Steamship
Co., MS Diana, Sweden
The “Good Life on Board”
cruise is one for gourmands. Special menus are
conceived from produce
bought from the local
canal area, resulting in
hearty Swedish delicacies,
Sail the River Nile on board the Dahabeya Hadeel.
and there’s a nightly winetasting session with the
crew’s personal sommelier.
Rock your boat: At Berg, exercise off all the amazing
food with a starlit swim in
the canal, or simply borrow
one of the ship’s bikes to go
for a ride along the canal.
www.gotacanal.se
Lyngen Lodge,
Tromso Coast, Norway
Combine snow, ski and sea
with this unique trip to the
Arctic Circle. It’s based in
the
luxurious
Lyngen
Lodge, on the shores of a remote Arctic fjord, and each
day you board a boat that
takes you to the foot of untouched white, powdery
slopes. Kick off your skis
and wind down with a spot
of fishing on your way back
to a dinner of reindeer.
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star/creator Lena Dunham
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She’s a chubby, tattooed,
thin-haired
26-year-old.
She’s normal.
The hype comes at
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Naked.” Within the past
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launched an “anti-Photoshop” app that restores images to their original form.
And “amateur” porn is the
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that Jenna Jameson built is
crumbling. The question is:
How quickly?
The biggest sex story of the
past year didn’t happen
between Christian and Anastasia in some porn your
mom read — it happened
in Brooklyn when Adam
banged Hannah and probably gave her an STD. The
HBO series “Girls,” with its
frank depiction of bad dirty
talk, venereal diseases,
abortions, miscarriages and
condom spill, is all about
sex. But unlike “Sex and the
City” before it, this show is
a global hit partly because
The model
The editor
“It’s ridiculous that
people are arguing.
We should focus on
embracing all sizes.”
“We don’t airbrush.
There’s something
sexy about that.”
Arielle Loren
founder, Corset magazine
Jennie Runk
plus-size model for H+M
So yes, how
quickly?
8
THE SEX ISSUE
IN 2013
‘FATKINI’
DESIGNER
GABI GREGG
Tip from Corset editor
In one year, or in five? “I
don’t think five years is
enough,” says Gabi Gregg,
26, a plus-size blogger. Her
work went viral last year
after she posted photos of
herself looking sensual in
a “fatkini” and, this week,
she launches her own line
of swimwear (see story, at
right). “But peo-
ple like Lena
Dunham and Louis
C.K. are opening doors.
Just the fact that her body
makes people so angry —
if you read the comments,
people are telling her to
put on clothes. She has said
that only makes her want
to do it more. It’s my favorite show.”
Arielle Loren doesn’t
watch “Girls,” but also traffics in blunt depictions of
sex. Her magazine Corset
(www.corsetmagazine.
com) features graphic nudity and first-person erotica,
and resembles someone’s
beautifully photographed
diary. It became profitable
after a year, and Loren sees
it as part of a movement.
“The way we learn about
sex, the pornography industry drives a lot of that
consciousness,” says Loren,
a 27-year-old American. “It
starts to inform the way
we think about ‘sexy’ from
•
Do the self-work. “Start
by walking around your
house naked. If you have
a roommate, shut your
door and walk around
your room naked. The
more you get comfortable with your naked self
— not covering yourself
up with a towel every
time you take a shower,
taking the time to be in
your body and open like
that — your confidence
will slowly and steadily
increase.”
Loren, on how to feel
good naked
The Gabifresh.com
blogger just crafted
a line for Swimsuitsforall.com.
In school, did you realize
you were bigger than
everybody else?
Yes and no. I wasn’t teased
too much, luckily. It was
mostly internal, feeling insecure next to my
classmates, if they were
thinner than me or had
blonde hair. Nobody had
to say anything. And I
started trying to diet when
I was in middle school and
high school, and it wasn’t
until college that I came to
accept myself.
Dunham is just one of the “Girls.” The actress has said she wouldn’t want a body like a Victoria’s Secret model. / HBO
an early age. But there are
multifaceted aspects of sex
and what it can really be,
which we explore in the
magazine. That goes from
everything you can do in
the bedroom — physically
— but also how we understand our bodies.”
A recent Corset photoshoot, “Breasts in Erotic
Daylight,”
features
a
brown bosom with stretch
marks. “We definitely
don’t airbrush,” says Loren.
“There’s something very
sexy about that. Being able
to see the hair follicles on a
breast or the stretch marks
on a woman’s stomach.”
She now has subscribers
here, in Canada, Peru, Brazil, Sweden and beyond.
And yet post a photo of
a plus size-model online
and you see not everyone’s
as accepting. Exhibit A: Jennie Runk.
Junk in
Runk’s trunk
The excitement (and de-
9
bate) over Runk’s H+M
campaign made it all the
way to Italy, where she was
working in May. It led to at
least one sleepless night. “I
was thinking about all the
media I’ve been getting
and my mom reads a lot
of the comments and she
said, ‘I can’t believe somebody called you fat,’” remembers the 24-year-old,
“and some people on the
other side were like, ‘The
curvier bodies are better!’
and it’s so ridiculous that
people are having these ar-
guments. What if some girl
looks at these pictures and
looks exactly like me: How
is she going to feel?”
She turned to Facebook
with a post. “I’ve noticed
that people like to debate
what kind of body is better
than another,” she wrote.
“This is all wrong! To me,
true beauty is defined by
a healthy lifestyle and a
genuine personality. Bodies are just meaty things
that carry our personhoods
around for us.” A week
later, Runk is still riled up.
She notes that “bigger”
models are getting more
work, but “we should focus
on embracing all sizes,” she
says bluntly.
“Should” is different
than “are.” The chart below
shows the Sex Symbols of
2013, as selected by our editors from a pool of working
actors who have notable
projects this year — there
are more shapes and sizes
than there would have been
in 1985, but it’s still very
thin and white. “We’re going in the right direction,”
says Gregg, “but ... ”
“This argument,” adds
Runk, “is going to be a
thing of the past when —
honestly, I don’t know.” On
Facebook, she was more
hopeful, saying it’s “our
differences that make us
remarkable.”
She laughs when she
hears that again. “I’ve been
told before I’m a little too
naive.”
SAM
CASTONE
Metro World News
How do the suits, um,
work?
What do you mean by
work? [Laughs]
They fit so well. Is it made
with a binding material,
with latches or something?
Actually, no. I’ve had
people ask about support,
of course, but there’s nothing special about the fabric
of the suits. It’s normal
bathing suit fabric. In
terms of the Galaxy suit,
what makes it so special
is the print — it’s graphic
Quoted
“It wasn’t until
college that I came
to accept myself.”
Gabi Gregg, writer, designer
and fun and looks great
because it’s so busy that
it — I don’t want to say it
distracts the eye, because I
don’t care about that sort
of thing, but that’s what it
does. And the high-waisted
cut looks great on all
women.
Are you OK with the term
“fatkini”?
Yes. I didn’t use it this
year because it went so
viral last year, and it was
inspiring for many people
but took away from it, for
others, because they were
stuck on the word and got
angry and started commenting. It’s a reclamation
of the word “fat,” especially in our community,
we all get it. When it goes
outside the community,
people get angry and send
emails. But I’m fine with it.
At the end of the day, it’s a
fatkini because I’m fat and
wearing a bikini. [Laughs]
How much do you weigh
now?
I believe I’m around 225.
How tall are you?
I’m 5-foot-5.
Do you get flack for not
being “fat enough?” Early
on, there were some
comments.
I don’t get a lot. Once in a
while, like when the bikini
pictures come out. It’s funny to see half the people
commenting are disgusted
by my body and the other
half are like, fat women
saying, “She’s shaped so
nicely so it doesn’t count!
I have fat hanging from
my arm that she doesn’t
have!” I try to avoid the
comments on other sites.
Some women wish they
could see women bigger
than me in a bikini and I
understand that but I can
only be myself. SAM CASTONE
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Alison Brie
Sofia Vergara
Christina
Hendricks
Olga
Kurylenko
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Jennifer
Lawrence
Emma Stone
Mila Kunis
Nina Dobrev
Helen Mirren
Anna Kendrick
Zoe Saldana
Emilia Clarke
Kate Upton
Zooey
Deschanel
Beyonce
Knowles
Aubrey Plaza
Kat
Dennings
Mindy Kaling
Bradley
Cooper
Jon Hamm
Ryan Gosling
Lena Dunham
Channing Tatum
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1940
1970
“The Spirit,” a noir comic by
Will Eisner about a middleclass man who fights crime
in a business suit, runs in
Register
and Tribune
Syndicate
newspapers.
It later
becomes a
2008 movie.
SUPERHEROES
1978-80
The Spirit
1996
Monsieur
Mangetout
Comic Con
France’s Michel Lotito,
aka Monsieur Mangetout
(Mr. Eat-it-all), consumes a
Cessna 150 airplane.
The first-ever Golden State
Comic Book Convention is
held in San Diego, Calif. It
eventually grew into Comic
Con, a yearly festival for
costumed wannabes.
1999
Superbarrio
King Tooth
Daniel Browning Smith,
Guinness World Records’
World’s Most Flexible Man
(aka The Rubberboy), gets
his first out of seven records.
“King Tooth” Raja Gigi
(Rathakrishnana Velu) pulls
a train with six coaches
attached weighing 297.1
tons for 9
feet at the
Old Kuala
Lumpur
Railway
Station
using his
teeth.
Mexican superhero and
satirist Superbarrio Gómez
declares he is running for the
U.S. presidential election.
Superman, who? Meet a
real-life, high-flying hero
Jetman: Leaping the Alps in a single bound
Matsumurav / CONTRIBUTED
Radioactive
Man: The
animal savior
of Fukushima
When Fukushima’s nuclear
reactor exploded in 2011, all
people living in the area were
evacuated. All except rice
farmer Naoto Matsumura, 53.
Just 6 miles from the plant,
the town had a population
of 16,000. Now it is only
Matsumura there, with 17
times the safe level of radiation. He shelters the region’s
wildlife, caring for everything
from feral dogs to ostriches.
He has the highest known
level of radiation in Japan,
which causes gradual cellular
breakdown, but he may not
feel the effects for 40 years.
2008
The Wright brothers may have
been the ultimate aeronautical
dreamers with the first airplane
flight, but no one has come
closer than Yves Rossy to making a human fly.
Rossy, aka Jetman, is a
former fighter pilot who says he
had always dreamed of being a
bird since he first witnessed an
air show as a 13-year-old. The
inspiration drove him to invent
and patent a series of jetpacks
that would fire him through
even more epic and courageous
voyages.
From the first experiments
in 2006, Rossy made his first
public flight two years later,
which took him over the Alps
Quoted
Pursue your dreams
and “always have a
Plan B.”
Yves Rossy aka Jetman
2010
2010
The French
Spider-Man
“The French Spider-Man”
Alain Robert scales the
52-story New York Times
building without any ropes
or harness.
at speeds close to 200 miles per
hour, at heights of 3,000 feet.
The charismatic Swiss even
found a moment to execute
a 360-degree roll and later
quipped, “That was to impress
the girls.”
This was followed by a 22mile journey across the English
Channel to France, which he
completed in under 10 minutes,
becoming the first man to
make the distance with a jet
pack. The feat was broadcast
live across the world with
great uncertainty surrounding
the outcome as Rossy himself
confessed his calculations were
fallible.
Since then he has continued to break ground and world
records for distance. In 2009, he
performed the first intercontinental jet flight, and went on
to fulfill a deeply held personal
ambition to fly along the Grand
Canyon. Not all of his missions
have been successful, having
crash-landed off the Spanish
Rossy gets some sick air. / CONTRIBUTED
coast when the weather turned
pilot school Aerobility. Rossy
threatening. Rossy is devoted
also hosts master classes for
to spreading his message —
the next generation of jetpack
pursue your dreams and
pilots, which will surely produce
“always have a Plan B.” His TED
the next great flying human.
talk remains one of the most
downloaded, and he has also
KIERON
won praise for philanthropic efMONKS
forts, such as performing shows
kieron.monks@metro.lu
for the benefit of disabled
2010
2011
Electron Boy
Kick-Ass
“Kick-Ass,” about a regular
kid (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)
who fights crime, is released,
co-starring Nicolas Cage. A
sequel is due this year.
16
2007
Rubberboy
Phoenix Jones, aka Benjamin
John Francis Fodor, begins
fighting crime in Seattle,
wearing a costume. He
chases away car thieves,
stops drunken drivers
and leads a citizens’
patrol called Rain
City Superhero
Movement. He
has also been arrested himself.
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Al-Essawy / CONTRIBUTED
Muscle Man:
‘This is what I
do for my
country’
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Egypt’s economy suffered
after the 2011 revolution
that deposed President
Hosni Mubarak, and Sayed AlEssawy, now 27, took it upon
himself to revive the nation’s
tourism industry with a fight
to the death against a lion in
front of the pyramids of Giza,
proclaiming, “This is what I
want to do for my country.”
The self-styled “world’s
strongest man” had noble
intentions but was met by
criticism from animal rights
groups and the Egyptian
tourist board distanced itself.
Nonetheless, Al-Essawy
entered the arena with shield
and sword and took on the
lion, although the animal
looked bored. Man defeated
beast. The gladiator was
subsequently arrested, yet
supporters point to the reopening of the pyramids and
other major attractions after
the fight as proof that AlEssawy was a national hero.
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Phoenix Jones
More than 350 western
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