"A good recommendation I recently received: My friend put the 1988 film Crossing Delancey on an end-of-year recommendation list, and it turned out to be the perfect nightcap for a dreary winter's day: a wry romantic comedy of errors that doubles as an ode to Manhattan's Lower East Side. Its love interest is a pickle salesman-utterly charming!"
"The upcoming arts event I'm most looking forward to: Benjamin Millepied's Romeo & Juliet Suiteat the Park Avenue Armory in March. Millepied is best known outside of the dance world as the ex-husband of Natalie Portman; the two met when he worked on the choreography for her Oscar-winning turn in Black Swan. (He also has the most apposite name for a dancer: Millepied roughly translates to "thousand-footed" in French.) What tabloid dross tends to obscure is his impressive career-first as a star dancer at the New York City Ballet, then as a roving choreographer of complex, dynamic work that is rooted in balletic conventions but not restricted by them. Romeo & Juliet Suite riffs on the famous tragedy and prom"
Sara Krolewski is a deputy research chief who helps oversee fact-checking at The Atlantic and has worked on reporting about a vanished kayaker, the second Trump administration, and Benjamin Franklin's relationship with his son. She is excitedly awaiting the New York City premiere of Benjamin Millepied's Romeo & Juliet Suite at the Park Avenue Armory in March. She enjoys the 1988 film Crossing Delancey, describing it as a wry romantic comedy that doubles as an ode to Manhattan's Lower East Side with a charming pickle-seller love interest. She also refreshes her Depop feed and revisits Picasso's Le Moulin de la Galette.
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