JULY 25, 2006 --

How About Chamber of Commerce Support for the People?

Perhaps outrageous prices like these, at a Bronx Amoco gas station, July 20 might drop if America's retailers indicated
their critical view of Big Oil by lowering prices for citizens hard hit by gas pumps.

Bronx Amoco

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JULY 25, 2006 --

Question for Fed Chairman Bernanke:

In view of the impact your public statements seem to have on stock market performance,might it not be in the country's best economic  interests if you departed from the practice of your predecessor -- who spoke softly in public carrying a big stock market price prod -- and lip-zipped?

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JULY 25, 2006 --

A Splash of Reality

LPR has concluded that one has reached seniority when the names of the golfers on the senior tour are more familiar than the names of the players on the regular tour.

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JULY 25, 2006 --

Break Open in Event of Flooding?

LPR does not know how long this sculpture, photographed July 20, will be on display in Lincoln Center Plaza -- nor, indeed, its name, but did want visitors to this mid-Manhattan public space to be
prepared.   Those are not colorful missiles but, as far as LPR can tell, various water craft: rowboats,canoes and surfboards.  That is the New York State Theater behind the water craft cluster.

Lincoln Center Sculpture

JULY 9, 2006 --

Note from the Proprietor …

More photos from the Broadway Under the Stars evening, and from the fashion show organized by Hillary Flowers, and the fashion show marking publication of the latest issue of Talent in Motion magazine, planned for this edition of LPR, will be posted in the next LPR.

To borrow, with variation, from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Irreverence tomorrow, serious
tonight. (The Restaurant Week item could not be delayed, because of the requirements of the calendar.)