Patois is French style bistro located at 255 Smith street in the Carrol Gardens section of Brooklyn. They also have a garden dining deck in the backyard.
The brunch is a well known event, price fixed at $12 a plate, each plate coming with your choice of unlimited coffee, mimosa, or bloody mary. The eggs dishes are good, and the french toast is more like sauteed bread pudding, ludicrously good with bananas.
Prepare to wait in line if you aren’t there when they open…
FROST NIXON
by Peter Morgan (writer of “The Last King of Scotland” and “The Queen”)
directed Michael Grandage
starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen
I wanted to see this cool little play and Frank Langella (who won a Tony for his role) before the play closed and it was an expensive ticket..
Frank Langella’s Nixon was superb, funny, human and strangely unlikable in a high stakes dance of wits against the TV interviewer played by Michael Sheen. I supposed that the Nixon era is still living on, in more than a few ways, inside of the current administration.
After what felt like almost 11 months of successfully running in New York (I read that they became profitable in just 14 weeks), they have plans to take it on tour in 2008, so worth seeing for a number of reasons.
Deeper info: Frost Nixon on broadway
Also: Tony awards
Bike riding the Cape Code Rail Trail, swimming in the Atlantic, flying a kite with J, L, & K.
My favorite trick “Bear on the Kite string”
Photos: H. Smith. No cross linking allowed. All rights reserved.
Living it up
Dinner
Photos: H. Smith. No cross linking allowed. All rights reserved.
The beaches in Narragansett are really nice. Visited G & M there before driving back home from a client.
Photo: H Smith
I wanted to see the “blockbuster” show on Edward Hopper’s large canvas light-saturated paintings and his drawings. Ahh those big blockbuster shows, the things that keep the museum in the black. But I came out of it remembering the way Hopper used sunlight, and I try to take photographs capturing something like that washed color.
Edward Hopper exhibition May 6th – August 19th 2007
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Also on display, which had some good works:
War and Discontent War and Discontent
We swung by the ICA to see the retrospective of Philip-Lorca diCorcia photography. Some really haunting photos of teenagers that moved to Los Angeles to get jobs and work in the “industry”. And other examples of his earlier work, from his Hartford CT. days onward — portraits stills landscapes.
DiCorcia (exhibition info page) (ICA Boston)
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is among the most influential and innovative photographers of the past thirty years.
Bringing together 125 photographs made from the late-1970s to the present, including selections from all of his distinct series, this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of diCorcia’s work in the United States.
DiCorcia’s images perch on the lines between fact and fiction, blending a documentary mode with techniques of staged photography. The viewer is often unsure whether a scene has been found or posed by diCorcia, which lends an uncanny quality to the typically mundane imagery the artist presents
This year’s Bastille Day celebration on Marlborough street (organized annually in Boston by the French Library) has some lively world music – street food including Nicoise salad, Belgian waffles, beer.