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Monday, May 6, 2013
1NEWS
NEW YORK
Gun death
Twoarrested
inshooting
Two Latin Kings
gang members were
arrested Saturday
in Rhode Island in
the shooting death
of 17-year-old Bronx
resident Alphonza
Bryant.
One suspect, age
21, implicated himself
in the homicide,
whereas the other
suspect, age 23, did
not make any state-
ments, according to
the NYPD. Both live in
the Bronx but appar-
ently fled to Cumber-
land, R.I., after the
April 22 shooting,
which Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has cited
as an example of why
stop-and-frisk is neces-
sary.
JESSE GREENSPAN
Blueway
Cityofficials
envisionnew
EastRiverplan
Manhattan Borough
President Scott
Stringer announced
a reimagining of the
East River water-
front.
The East River
Blueway Plan, created
with residents, urban
design experts and
the Lower East Side
Ecology Center, focus-
es on the waterfront
from Brooklyn Bridge
to East 38th Street.
Along with pre-
venting such storm
damage as experi-
enced during Sandy,
it includes new bike
paths, beaches and
boating spots.
ALISON BOWEN
In Albany
Gov.opposes
paydaybill
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
declared his opposi-
tion to a new bill
allowing that would
allow payday loans
in a letter to assem-
bly speaker Sheldon
Silver, the state said.
The bill would charge
customers fees and
high interest rates,
the governor said.
EVELYN CHENG
NYPD.Jumpercoaxed
downfrombridge
A suicidal man was
coaxed down by cops on
Saturday afternoon after
climbing to the top of
the Brooklyn Bridge.
The unidentified
52-year-old man used the
bridge’s support cables to
reach top of the Manhat-
tan-side tower. The NYPD
then closed the bridge
to traffic while officers
donned harnesses to join
the man on the ledge.
Police said they were
able to ascertain the
man’s concerns and con-
vince him that he would
receive help during an
hour-long conversation.
After being assisted
down the support cables,
the man was taken to
Bellevue Hospital for
evaluation.
JESSE GREENSPANPolice officers talk with the man on the Brooklyn Bridge. / NYPD
Trixie Rapp and mom, Kristen Bonardi Rapp, check out their Cicada Tracker in the Halsey Street Community Garden in Brooklyn. / AARON ADLER
Before you file a noise com-
plaint about your neigh-
bor’s lawnmower, take
heed. It might be bugs.
The anticipated erup-
tion of ear-shattering in-
sects has put New York in
a frenzy. Everyone from
couples planning outdoor
weddings to cicada food
enthusiasts are monitor-
ing the birth of Brood II, a
strain of cicada that emerg-
es just once every 17 years
to mate and lay eggs.
“They don’t do any-
thing to people. They don’t
sting. They don’t carry any
diseases,” said Craig Gibbs,
an entomologist with the
Wildlife Conservation Soci-
ety at Queens Zoo.
The sound comes from
the mating calls of male
cicadas and can reach up
to 90 decibels, as loud as a
lawnmower.
One website, Cicada Ma-
nia, advises couples plan-
ning outdoor nuptials to
avoid trees, use tents and
hire bagpipes to drown out
the noisy nuisances.
For adventurous food-
ies, Dr. Jenna Jadin and
the University of Maryland
Cicadamaniacs have pub-
lished a cicada recipe book,
citing the insect’s rich pro-
tein content.
Brood II emerge when
underground tempera-
tures stay above 64 degrees,
usually in May, Gibbs said.
And he actually recom-
mends not mowing lawns
when the bugs are out.
“It’s a disgusting mess, be-
cause cicadas will be every-
where.”
Rare cicada swarm
to buzz New York
Summer bugs.
The Brood II only
emerges every 17
years to wreak
ear-splitting havoc.
A Brood II cicada / DAN MOZGAI
Quoted
“I don’t know
where it’s
going to happen.
Basically these
animals need 17
years of
undisturbed
trees, and I’m
not sure of any
spaces in the city
except for places
like Inwood
Park.”
Craig Gibbs
In the news
Man
diesin
bike
ride
A cyclist died
yesterday morning
of an apparent
heart attack while
participating in
the TD Five Boro
Bike Tour. Michael
Boren, 51, of Al-
mont, Mich., went
into cardiac arrest
around 10:50 a.m.
on the upper level
of the Queensboro
Bridge, according
to police. He was
taken to NewYork
Presbyterian Hos-
pital where he was
pronounced dead.
EVELYN
CHENG
echeng@metro.us
Quoted
“They don’t do
anything to people.
They don’t sting.
They don’t carry
any diseases.”
Gibbs
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THE ACTRESS TALKS ABOUT BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE. PAGE 17
Kristen and Trixie Rapp are monitoring for the arrival of the Brood II cicada in Brooklyn.
The male insect can project sounds as loud as a lawnmower. / AARON ADLER
A noisy infestation. The Brood II cicada emerges from hibernation every 17 years to take over New York City.
Bugeyed. Entomophagists, wedding planners and amateurs are all monitoring the impending insect invasion. PAGE 02
Sports:
Knicks dig
early hole
vs. Pacers
PAGE 30
Jobs:
This ain’t
college, it’s
real life
PAGE 27
Wellbeing:
Fast food
that isn’t
bad food?
PAGE 24
Music: Yo
Beyonce,
give us a
new album!
PAGE 18
Cicadas
to swarm
the cityPAGE 02
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
1NEWS
SPORTS
Hot dogs
Nathan’s
re-opensin
ConeyIsland
When Nathan’s
opened its doors qui-
etly 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 crinkle-
cut fries can get a
dozen oysters for
$17.50, according to
the Daily News.
EMILY JOHNSON
Traffic accident
Schoolbus
crashinjures
threein
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 Kens-
ington, 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 pa-
tients have not been
released. EMILY JOHNSON
Web giant
Yahoomoves
intooldNY
Timesoffice
Yahoo Inc. announced
that its New York
employees would be
moving into the old
home of the New York
Times on 43rd Street.
The California-
based web giant cur-
rently employs a New
York workforce of
500 people scattered
across three office
spaces across the city.
EMILY JOHNSON
Hate.Latestinstring
ofanti-gayattacks
happensinNewYork
Early yesterday, another
hate crime occurred in
Manhattan, just days
after a man was shot by
another man shouting
homophobic slurs.
Two men were walk-
ing 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 TCHOLAKIANA march against hate crimes took place Monday. / AARON ADLER, METRO
New Yorkers march through the city to protest fracking and the coming of the Spectra pipeline. / ERIC WALTON, OCCUPY THE PIPELINE
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 co-
founder 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.
Claire Donohue, Sane
Energy Project co-founder,
noted that the well-known
San Bruno pipeline acci-
dent occurred in a subur-
ban 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.”
Pipeline stirs
safety concerns
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
Public concern. The
new pipeline will
carry natural gas
that is extracted
from fracking.
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Quoted
“If you are
victimized,
harassed,
assaulted—we
want to know
about it.”
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TCHOLAKIAN
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Weekend, May 17-19, 2013
2CULTURE
TELEVISION
By her count, Jessica Wal-
ter 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,” oppo-
site Clint Eastwood), super-
natural (“Dr. Strange”) and,
most recently, comedic
(“Archer”). But for Walter,
the forthcoming return of
“Arrested Development”
offers a reassuring remind-
er that her career has tran-
scended not just different
genres, but different gen-
erations.
“Certainly demographi-
cally, there are probably
people who thought I was
dead,” Walter jokes.
Returning as boozy ma-
triarch Lucille Bluth, Wal-
ter 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 char-
acter instead of simply fol-
lowing Jason Bateman’s Mi-
chael 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
Guzzlingmartinis
withLucilleBluthmakes it much more dif-
ficult,” 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 seven-
year 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 character-
specific,” 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 warn-
ing to beware of what he
thought somebody was
saying was Lucille. As view-
ers 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 De-
velopment” and “Archer,”
on which she plays anoth-
er alkie mom, Walter finds
herself in the midst of a
remarkable career renais-
sance, a fact she’s grateful
for, regardless of whether
people know her prior to
playing these cantanker-
ous, irresistibly manipula-
tive 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.”
Interview. Jessica
Walter slips right
back into the boozy
matriarch role that
made her famous
— again.
TODD
GILCHRIST
letters@metro.us
Flashback
Donotplay
‘Misty’forher
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
cast her as a woman
who becomes
obsessed with his
sexy radio DJ. Walter
became cinema’s
first-ever crazed one-
night stand victim,
who begins attack-
ing him and his
loved ones with a knife-
wielding 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?”
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
Woodson wouldn’t comment on Amar’e Stoudemire’s status for
2013-14, only saying they would “play it by ear.” / GETTY IMAGES
Knicks’ brass emphasize positives
The Knicks wrapped up
their season-ending media
obligations by ushering
head coach Mike Woodson
and president Glen Grun-
wald in front of the masses
at their facilities yesterday.
Neither wanted to dis-
cuss 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 spe-
cifics of what he plans on
doing with the roster this
summer, but he did allow
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 for-
ward to stacking on anoth-
er 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
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
The Rangers now see their season slip sliding away after a late goal by the Bruins in Game 3. / GETTY IMAGES
Bruinsnab3-0lead
on late Game 3 goal
The Rangers’ best effort
in the Eastern Conference
semifinals simply wasn’t
good enough.
As a result, a season
which began with expecta-
tions of playing meaning-
ful games in June is one
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 goal-
mouth tap-in at 16:29 of
the third was the game-
winning goal. The se-
quence that led to Paille’s
goal began with a Shawn
Thornton shot that hit
Henrik Lundqvist and
popped behind the goal-
tender. The puck never
crossed the goal line, but
Lundqvist could not find it,
and Paille pounced on the
loose rebound.
As the Bruins celebrat-
ed, Lundqvist stared up at
the pinwheel ceiling, frus-
tration etched on his face.
The Rangers led 1-0
through two periods on a
goal by Taylor Pyatt in the
first period. Johnny Boy-
chuk tied in 3:10 into the
third period.
NHL playoffs.
The Rangers now
face an almost
insurmountable
deficit in the series.
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
Lottery jackpot
Cavalierswin
toppickin
NBAdraft
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 eighth-
worst record. METRO
No thanks
Jacksonliked
offerfrom
Brooklyn
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 basi-
cally.” Jackson would
prefer to have a say in
personnel issues if he
takes over with a new
team. METRO
DENIS
GORMAN
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
3SPORTS
SPORTS
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 Thun-
der organization also
announced it would
be donating $1 mil-
lion to recovery.
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Game 3 at MSG
2Rangers notes:
Girardi earns
Tortorella’s trust
3Playing the Field:
What cities should
host the Super Bowl?
There are 30 types of oysters on the menu at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, which recently celebrated its centennial. / BRYAN SMITH
NewYorkCity
isyouroyster
Ernest Hemingway waxed
poetic about them in his
posthumous memoir “A
Moveable Feast.” The late,
great lover Casanova was
said to eat a dozen of them
for breakfast. And scien-
tists have confirmed that
they are indeed aphrodisi-
acs (as if we didn’t know).
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
prices to boot.
MaisonPremiere
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 coun-
try. For $1 each, diners can
choose from little gems
including the East End,
Montauk Pearl, Kenny’s
Malpeque and Peters Point.
Check out our interview
with new chef Lisa Giffen
on the next page.
Offered Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.
298 Bedford Ave., 347-335-0446
L&WOysterCo.
At this market-driven
oyster bar, the atmosphere
and menu are decidedly
nautical. Weekday specials
include $2 oysters —
sourced from both the East
and West coasts — includ-
ing hard-to-find varieties
like Belon oysters from
Maine (only 5,000 of the
zinc- and umami-packed
delicacies are harvested
each year).
Offered Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
254 Fifth Ave., 212-203-7772
TheJohnDory
OysterBar
The best part of happy
hour at The John Dory Oys-
ter Bar is that it’s offered
twice a day. Included is a
choice of a half-dozen oys-
ters or clams and a choice
of a glass of bubbly or an
English pint of Sixpoint
Oyster Stout, a beer made
from the oyster shells
shucked at the restaurant
($18).
Offered daily, 5-7 p.m. and
11 p.m. to midnight
1196 Broadway, 212-792-9000
GrandCentral
OysterBar
At this Midtown mainstay,
executive chef Sandy
Ingber says after the late
1990s and the economic
boom, many varieties of
oyster became available
from all over the country.
Now they’re as popular as
ever. “I have 30 varieties
on my menu every day
and cannot keep them in
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important that Robert
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only it had to look real-
istic. He’s meant to be a
billionaire playboy. You
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film opening Friday.
“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
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people don’t want to talk
about it, but the truth is,
he’s 48. He’s above the
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being a fit individual,
but this is a young man’s
training he’s doing.”
In order to gain
muscle bulk, Downey
Jr. spent the first month
doing traditional weight
training: push-ups,
bench presses, etc. Once
he and Bose were satis-
fied with his mass, they
moved on to functional
performance training, a
technique that engages
all muscle groups simul-
taneously: “FPT isn’t just
for aesthetics,” says Bose.
“All the exercises are
designed to get you mus-
cular through strength.
As opposed to body
building, where you’re
working one muscle
group in isolation, FPT
gets as many muscles
and as many planes of
movement engaged at
any one time (as pos-
sible),” he explains.
The logic behind the
moves is this: “The body
functions as a unit. Every
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 bat-
tling ropes, sledgeham-
mers, tires and so on.”
On his day off
“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,
so on the opposite days
that he’s not working
with me, he’s sparring
with his coach, Eric
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There are some two dozen
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In addition to sun-
splashed beaches fringed
with palm
trees, the East-
ern Caribbean
appeals to
shoppers en-
ticed by luxury
goods and duty-free
prices in places like St.
Thomas, St. Martin and
San Juan.
The Western Caribbean of-
fers 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.
Southern Caribbean
cruises afford the choice
of more island destina-
tions-— usually as many
as five, which often also
means fewer days at sea.
A Southern Caribbean
cruise is generally longer,
often 10 to 12 nights.
San Juan is also a
popular embarka-
tion port for ships
on Southern
Caribbean itiner-
aries, which often
make stops in
many destinations
like Martinique, Do-
minica and Grenada.
And not to be forgot-
ten, winter cruises to
the Mexican Riviera are
also very popular as
they offer the allure of
warm temperatures,
beaches and plenty of
shopping.
Experience
the south
Name: Carnival Fantasy
When: Starting May 18;
various dates
Ports visited: Bahamas and
Key West
Departs from: Charleston, S.C.
For more information:
www.charlestoncruise
packages.com
Carnival Cruise Lines will
begin year-round service
from Charleston, S.C., be-
ginning with a May 18 de-
parture of the 2,056-
passenger Carnival Fanta-
sy, and will depart from
Charleston’s historic down-
town. Local hoteliers are re-
sponding by putting to-
gether park-and-stay pack-
ages so you can experience
the beauty of Charleston
before or after you cruise.
Calling all the
single ladies
Name: Life Makeover Cruise
When: April 18-25
Price: Starts at $999
Ports visited: Puerto Rico, St.
Kitts and St. Maarten
Departs from: Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
For more information:
www.singlestravelintl.com
Singles Travel Internation-
al announces their Life
Makeover
Cruise, spe-
cially de-
signed for
single ladies
needing a
little life-
enhancement
(think Oprah’s self-help
programming but on the
high seas). Travelers will
participate in workshops
– Go to www.fodors.com
for more expert travel tips.
Fodor’s. For choice
travel experiences.
Hot spots
Top three most popular
cruise routes:
Miami — Key West —
Cozumel
Los Angeles — Mazatlan —
Puerto Vallarta — Cabo
San Lucas
Miami — Grand Cayman —
Belize — Cozumel
Source: Orbitz
Beware sea
monsters!
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, Oa-
sis of the Seas. These sea
monsters weigh in at
225,000 tons and carry up
to 6,300 passengers and
2,160 crew (now that's a
party!). Since they’re so
large, they can’t visit
every port of call, but
Puerto Rico, St. Thomas
and Jamaica have built
new piers in order to host
them. METRO/DR
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 presi-
dent of Cruise.com, shares
these tips.
Find out
what’s included
A lot of people have mis-
conceptions about what
they will need to cover.
What is included: Meals,
entertainment and accom-
modations. What is addi-
tional once you get on
board: soft drinks and alco-
hol, spa treatments, shore
excursions, certain dining
experiences, the Internet
and gratuities. Those
are the additions
you should be
ready for when
you get the bill at the end
of the trip.
Be prepared
Have all proper documen-
tation when you get to
port. They are being very
strict nowadays so be sure
your name
matches
your documentation ex-
actly. If not, you could be
denied boarding. Since
most cruises now require
that you preregister online,
this is a good time to make
sure your passport isn’t ex-
pired and all of your paper-
work is in order.
Do your research
Learn about ports you will
visit. Most importantly, see
how far the port city is
from the city center, as
that makes all the differ-
ence of what kind of expe-
rience you will have. For
instance, if you are going
to Rome, you’ll find that
the port is far from the
center of the city, so you
might want to prepur-
chase a shore excursion. It
will save you time if you
have a good idea of the
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.
Arrive early
Although the ship
might leave at 5
o’clock, you can actually
start to board around
noon. You’ll be free to
enjoy the ship and decks
all afternoon — this really
adds an extra day to your
vacation and helps you
relax instead of rushing to
make departure.
METRO/DR
Tips
Oasis of the Seas
Variety Cruises’s first Gay Cruise program will be held on the Panorama (pictured).
Your body here?
Cozumel
The beauty of St. Thomas is just a cruise away.
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Here’s how one thing af-
fects the other: Heftier
cruise vessels means more
on-deck room for uncon-
ventional dining options.
The culinary tact of cruise
liners has changed quite a
bit in the past decade, par-
ticularly in the following
ways:
Dine when
you want
The top trend in cruise din-
ing has less to do with
what you eat than when
you eat it: Gone are the
days when passengers re-
ceived a set time — typical-
ly 6 or 8 p.m. — for their
sit-down meals. Now, says
cruise expert Stewart Chi-
ron, “People can eat at
whatever time they want.”
For Cruise.com Senior Vice
President Jeanne Wyn-
drum, the open-ended
schedule transfigures the
whole trip: “It kind of eas-
es your day.”
Specialty
restaurants
As ship size increases, so
does the space for new
restaurants: “Like steak-
houses, Italian, French,
Asian,” Chiron says. The
new spots feel less like din-
ing halls and more like
chic eateries — “The food
quality, the atmosphere,
and the accoutrements are
much different,” he says.
Celebrity chefs
More space for restaurants
means more gigs for chefs
— gigs restaurants are fill-
ing 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 at some point,” says
Chiron.
Healthier bites
Cruise lines have tradition-
ally made accommodation
for passengers with specif-
ic dietary needs — just
that, now, those gluten-
free and low-cholesterol
options are starting to be-
come mainstays on cabin
menus. “It’s not like,
‘Here’s a few bits of let-
tuce,’” says Wyndrum.
“These are very good en-
trees, and they’re quite
popular.”
So long, buffets of old Cruises are taking dining to
the next level Trends to expect in 2010 for your
palate Luckily, your ship will also come with a gym
The galleys go
very gourmet
on these ships
Culinary
classes
Here’s where the realms
of food and onboard en-
tertainment start to
blur: Norwegian Cruise
Line packs a training
kitchen on many of its
newer vessels — “They’ll
have like a theater set-
up, as if you were in a
class,” says Chiron.
“You’ll have the table
and kitchen set up, and
the chef will come out.”
METRO/DHDREW HINSHAW
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OASIS OF THE SEAS
CARNIVAL
On the Carnival Dream, there’s a speciality pasta bar for when you need your carb fix.
The Oasis of the Sea boasts The Cupcake Cupboard, a
dedicated shop that hosts hands-on decorating classes.
These days, cruising isn’t
just about retired folk
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 gour-
mands. Special menus are
conceived from produce
bought from the local
canal area, resulting in
hearty Swedish delicacies,
and there’s a nightly wine-
tasting session with the
crew’s personal sommelier.
Rock your boat: At Berg, ex-
ercise 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 re-
mote Arctic fjord, and each
day you board a boat that
takes you to the foot of un-
touched white, powdery
slopes. Kick off your skis
and wind down with a spot
of fishing on your way back
to a dinner of reindeer.
Rock your boat: Lyngen
Lodge also boats French
windows with breathtak-
ing views across the
mountains — perfect for
admiring the Northern
Lights.
www.lyngenlodge.com
Right Travel, Dahabeya
Hadeel, Nile River, Egypt
Sail the turquoise waters
of the River Nile on board
the Dahabeya Hadeel. Dis-
cover the rich cultural her-
itage of Egypt while
taking time to relax on
the sailboat.
Over the course
of eight days, you’ll see
many of Egypt’s most spec-
tacular sights.
Rock your boat: At the end of
the day, nothing really
beats a bit of mindless fun.
Hop off the sailboat and on-
to a camel or donkey when
you stop off in El Kab, one
of the oldest cities in Egypt.
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Different cruises for the adventurous
Sail the River Nile on board the Dahabeya Hadeel.
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Presents that’ll keep your man well-groomed,
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Right on time
Got the time? Why yes, we do! And it’s
adorable thanks to these colorful, poppy
watches by Karim Rashid for Alessi.
$110, Alessi, 130 Greene St., www.alessi.com
Sweet wheels
Yes, it’s a big gift, but the
new Vespa S 150 will end
up saving big: It claims a
whopping 85 miles to the
gallon. Not to mention its
two-tone design is
irresistible.
From $4,399, visit
www.vespausa.com for dealers
Between the lines
This striped scarf by
Arcade might have been
made for an L.A. winter,
but it’s cute enough to
deserve a chance on
the East Coast.
$68,
www.arcadeboutique.com
Glow on
Artist Jeff Coons’ limited-
edition line for Kiehl’s
does some good while
keeping that skin so soft:
Proceeds benefit the Inter-
national Center for
Missing & Exploited Chil-
dren.
$27-$70, www.kiehls.com
See the light
If it’s a white Christmas, these Ralph Lauren shades
will handle the snow glare before going on full-time
duty at the beach. As part of the “Pink Pony”
collection, 10 percent of proceeds benefit breast can-
cer care and prevention programs.
$190, www.ralphlauren.com
Big-time bubbles
Bath accessories can come off like a last-minute gift, but
not the mega “Merry Christmas Darling” package from
LUSH: This all-star assortment is all about sensual scents
and includes cheeky products such as Smitten Hand
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Adidas’ miCoach measures his
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OptiShot Simulator by Dancin’
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What guy doesn’t like a Zippo?
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Weekend, May 31-June 2, 2013 THE SEX ISSUE
The biggest sex story of the
past year didn’t happen
between Christian and An-
astasia in some porn your
mom read — it happened
in Brooklyn when Adam
banged Hannah and prob-
ably 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
HERE’S WHAT’S SEXYTrend. With “Girls”
a hit and plus-sized
models becoming
the norm, we
wonder: Are the
days of the blonde
bimbo over?
The model
“It’s ridiculous that
people are arguing.
We should focus on
embracing all sizes.”
Jennie Runk
plus-size model for H+M
The editor
“We don’t airbrush.
There’s something
sexy about that.”
Arielle Loren
founder, Corset magazine
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star/creator Lena Dunham
is, well, average-looking.
She’s a chubby, tattooed,
thin-haired 26-year-old.
She’s normal.
The hype comes at
the perfect time for the
“real beauty” movement
— and for this Metro Sex
Issue, themed “Feel Good
Naked.” Within the past
month, plus-size model
Jennie Runk made head-
lines when H+M debuted
her modeling swimwear
(despite being a dress size
14-16, not 0). Dove soap, on
the tails of an ad campaign
featuring plus-size women,
launched an “anti-Photo-
shop” app that restores im-
ages to their original form.
And “amateur” porn is the
most popular category on
YouPorn, ranking higher
than “blondes.” The house
that Jenna Jameson built is
crumbling. The question is:
How quickly?
Soyes,how
quickly?
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 favor-
ite show.”
Arielle Loren doesn’t
watch “Girls,” but also traf-
fics in blunt depictions of
sex. Her magazine Corset
(www.corsetmagazine.
com) features graphic nudi-
ty 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 in-
dustry drives a lot of that
consciousness,” says Loren,
a 27-year-old American. “It
starts to inform the way
we think about ‘sexy’ from
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 under-
stand our bodies.”
A recent Corset photo-
shoot, “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, Bra-
zil, Sweden and beyond.
And yet post a photo of
a plus size-model online
and you see not everyone’s
as accepting. Exhibit A: Jen-
nie Runk.
Junkin
Runk’strunk
The excitement (and de-
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 some-
body called you fat,’” re-
members 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-
Tip from Corset editor
• 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 comfort-
able 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
Sofia Vergara
Olga
Kurylenko
Mila Kunis
Nina Dobrev
Alison Brie
Mindy Kaling
Christina
Hendricks
Jennifer
Lawrence
Rebel Wilson
Emilia Clarke
Beyonce
Knowles
Zoe Saldana
Helen Mirren
Anna Kendrick
Kate Upton
Kat
Dennings
Zooey
Deschanel
Aubrey Plaza
Emma Stone
Lena Dunham
9THE SEX ISSUE
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.”
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, feel-
ing 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.
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 noth-
ing 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
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 com-
menting. It’s a reclamation
of the word “fat,” espe-
cially 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 fun-
ny 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
‘FATKINI’
DESIGNER
GABI GREGG
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“It wasn’t until
college that I came
to accept myself.”
Gabi Gregg, writer, designer
SAM
CASTONE
Metro World News
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. Bod-
ies 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
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thantherewouldhavebeen
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thin and white. “We’re go-
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IN2013
Adam Driver
Chris
O’Dowd
Jon Hamm
Nick Offerman
Aziz Ansari
Louis C.K.Donald Glover
Oscar Isaac
James Franco
Joseph
Gordon-Levitt
Damien Lewis
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Weekend, June 14-16, 2013 SUPERHEROES
1940
TheSpirit
“The Spirit,” a noir comic by
Will Eisner about a middle-
class man who fights crime
in a business suit, runs in
Register
and Tribune
Syndicate
newspapers.
It later
becomes a
2008 movie.
1978-80
Monsieur
Mangetout
France’s Michel Lotito,
aka Monsieur Mangetout
(Mr. Eat-it-all), consumes a
Cessna 150 airplane.
1970
ComicCon
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.
1996
Superbarrio
Mexican superhero and
satirist Superbarrio Gómez
declares he is running for the
U.S. presidential election.
1999
Rubberboy
Daniel Browning Smith,
Guinness World Records’
World’s Most Flexible Man
(aka The Rubberboy), gets
his first out of seven records.
2007
KingTooth
“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.
2008
TheFrench
Spider-Man
“The French Spider-Man”
Alain Robert scales the
52-story New York Times
building without any ropes
or harness.
2010
ElectronBoy
More than 350 western
Washington residents volun-
teer to help make 13-year-old
cancer victim Erik Martin’s
dream of
being a
super-
hero for
a day a
reality.
Martin
died in
2011.
2010
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.
2010
Super
Rainn Wilson stars in dark
comedy “Super,” a film about
a man straddling the line be-
tween psychopath and hero
after deciding to give purpose
to his life by dressing up in
costume to fight criminals.
2011
PhoenixJones
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 ar-
rested himself.
2012
Thanatos
Masked man Thanatos, 63,
hands out clothes and sup-
plies to people in need in
Vancouver, Canada.
Superman,who?Meeta
real-life,high-flyinghero
Jetman: Leaping the Alps in a single bound
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 mak-
ing 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
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 22-
mile 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 contin-
ued to break ground and world
records for distance. In 2009, he
performed the first interconti-
nental 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
coast when the weather turned
threatening. Rossy is devoted
to spreading his message —
pursue your dreams and
“always have a Plan B.” His TED
talk remains one of the most
downloaded, and he has also
won praise for philanthropic ef-
forts, such as performing shows
for the benefit of disabled
pilot school Aerobility. Rossy
also hosts master classes for
the next generation of jetpack
pilots, which will surely produce
the next great flying human.
Quoted
Pursue your dreams
and “always have a
Plan B.”
Yves Rossy aka Jetman
Rossy gets some sick air. / CONTRIBUTED
Radioactive
Man:The
animalsavior
ofFukushima
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 radia-
tion. 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.
Matsumurav / CONTRIBUTED
MuscleMan:
‘ThisiswhatI
doformy
country’
Egypt’s economy suffered
after the 2011 revolution
that deposed President
Hosni Mubarak, and Sayed Al-
Essawy, 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 re-
opening of the pyramids and
other major attractions after
the fight as proof that Al-
Essawy was a national hero.
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