Email Author Christopher Weller

2013 Stories by Christopher Weller

• WHAT GPS CAN'T DO

  published May 8, 2013

  If you could draw your own map of Manhattan to include spots of your most interesting memories, what would you include? Becky Cooper handed out... More >>

• DISH IT UP

  published May 1, 2013

  Though eating is vital to human existence, cookbooks no longer represent the zenith of culinary literature. The Food Book Fair wants to prove,... More >>

• Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

  published May 1, 2013

  In 2011, 40-year-old Tim Hetherington was photographing combat in Libya when he was killed alongside fellow photographer Chris Hondros. Known for... More >>

• BEER. MEAT. GOOD.

  published April 24, 2013

  If there’s one thing the Brooklyn Beefsteak is good for, it’s the impending gargle of meat and booze sloshing around in a pool of... More >>

• ALL TIED UP

  published April 10, 2013

  In 1974, Philippe Petit gracefully navigated a 200-foot-long steel cable that he strung between the towers of the World Trade Center, nearly a... More >>

• PHOTO OP ANYONE?

  published April 3, 2013

  F or the AIPAD Photography Show’s 33rd installment, more than 80 fine art photography galleries fill the expansive, hangar-like enclosure... More >>

• STEREOSCOPIC HITCHCOCK

  published March 27, 2013

  In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Alfred Hitchcock filmed only one movie in 3D: Dial M for Murder in 1954. Notorious for deploying... More >>

• A WORLD PROJECTED

  published March 13, 2013

  Recall momentarily the View-Master you likely had as a child. With the red device pressed firmly to your eye sockets, you saw a wondrous... More >>

• PLANET GORE

  published March 6, 2013

  For as widely as he’s been lampooned, Al Gore has earned great respect throughout the world (as well as a Nobel Peace Prize) for his role as... More >>

• REALLY!?!

  published March 6, 2013

  While some may miss the deadpan genius of, say, Norm MacDonald, or the inimitable duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, even the most ardent... More >>

• GET FUNKY

  published February 27, 2013

  Perhaps edibility is the only criterion for stomaching the wretched odor of some cheeses. At the Winter Stinky Cheese Festival, nearly two dozen... More >>

• PICKING SATIRE'S BRAIN

  published February 20, 2013

  Perennially bearded and bespectacled, 
author and professor George Saunders has made a living playing the savvy spectator of our consumer... More >>

• OP-ED OPTIMISM

  published February 13, 2013

  New York Times media reporter David Carr once opined that adding a paywall to the newspaper’s website was not, in fact, like drilling holes... More >>