{"id":1936,"date":"2018-04-21T04:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T08:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2018-04-21T04:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T08:04:32","slug":"april-16-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"April 16 \u2014\u00a0 April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png?w=474\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t been in Town Hall in years. On the second floor I stared at photos of Billie Holiday and Andrea Segovia. Both had appeared in Town Hall way back in the fifties. The crowd buzzed. We were there to hear The New Yorker Radio Hour (and a half) moderated by David Remnick who was interviewing James Comey. \u00a0Comey has been jumping all over the media for the past few weeks to publicize \u00a0<em>A Higher Loyalty<\/em>, his tell (almost) all book about his philosophy as it played out in his exciting career. It was a pleasure to listen to two well educated, well spoken men. The hottest words flooded the packed theater: rule of law, transparency, Loretta Lynn, Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Russian involvement in the American election.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think Mr Comey will be speaking at Amazon. Remember the saying, Revenge is a dish best served cold? \u00a0Mr. Comey + Mr. Jeff Bezos is almost as titillating as Trump + prostitutes in Moscow.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1937\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1937\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5426.jpg?resize=192%2C256\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"256\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Comey&#8217;s A Higher Loyalty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stuyvesant Town has been described as a place &#8220;to live in a park\u00a0\u2013 to live in the country in the heart of New York.&#8221; One of its traditions is the Stuyvesant Town Flea Market. It was an annual event until 9\/11 closed it down. Don\u2019t ask me to explain that logic. It was brought back last year. It\u2019s on this weekend. I\u2019m not participating because I\u2019m going to a Joyce DiDonato masterclass and because, last year, it took me five hours to make about twenty seven dollars.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was still fun. Neighbors and I shared a booth. Friends dropped by. Meanwhile, the woman next to me made out like a bandit selling little toys to lots of little children. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>@Generation Women is sharing secrets on April 25. It\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>story telling by women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. Each participant has seven minutes -7- seven minutes to tell her secret and the fun begins at 7 pm. It\u2019s at the Caveat Theatre, a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>New York speakeasy, on 21 A Clinton Street. The April 25 event is sold out but please come to the May event.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Graphic Lessons: Recent thirty-five-year-old widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man in the school kitchen, deals with the only witness to the stabbing &#8211; a troubled nine-year-old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Graphic Lessons: Something\u2019s eating at NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It doesn\u2019t matter because he\u2019s relentless.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:connection<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1936\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1936\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1936\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1936\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I hadn\u2019t been in Town Hall in years. 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We were there to hear The New Yorker Radio Hour (and a half) moderated by David Remnick who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 16 \u2014\u00a0 April 21<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:connection<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1936\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1936\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1936\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1936\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1936&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QXad-ve","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}