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#1 Free Daily Newspaper in New YorkLaunched in Sweden in 1995, Metro is the inventor
of the modern free daily newspaper model. With over 18 million daily readers, Metro is the world’s largest
newspaper.
Metro New York informs, entertains and educates the city, delivering relevant information in an
attractive, concise format that fits into readers’ fast-paced lifestyles.
Connecting brands with an exclusive audience of young, active professionals through non-traditional,
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2www.metro.usMonday, May 6, 2013
1NEWS
NEW YORK
Gun death
Two arrested in shooting 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
City offi cials envision new East River plan 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 payday bill 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. Jumper coaxed down from bridge 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 GREENSPAN Police offi cers 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 c om-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 dies in 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 [email protected]
Quoted
“They don’t do anything to people. They don’t sting. They don’t carry any diseases.”Gibbs
Original COntent90% of Metro’s news is produced by Metro journalists. Metro has a larger editorial staff worldwide than CNN.
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WASHINGTON IS A ‘PEEPLES’ PERSON 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 city PAGE 02
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1NEWS
SPORTS
Hot dogs
Nathan’s re-opens in Coney Island 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
Traffi c accident
School bus crash injures three in 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
Yahoo moves into old NY Times offi ce 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. Latest in string of anti-gay attacks happens in New York 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 TCHOLAKIAN A 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.
Top 3
Trending online at Metro.us 1 London woman
blames unemploy-ment on good looks
2 PHOTOS: Devasta-tion caused by
Oklahoma tornado
3 Gerard Depardieu: Tsarnaev brothers
more American than Chechen
Quoted
“If you are victimized, harassed,
assaulted—we want to know
about it.” Ray Kelly
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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
Guzzling martinis with Lucille Bluth
makes 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 [email protected]
Flashback
Do not play ‘Misty’ for her 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 for2013-14, 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
Bruins nab 3-0 lead 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 playoff s. The Rangers now face an almost insurmountable defi cit 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 RangersGame 4, tomorrowat 7, CNBC
Lottery jackpot
Cavaliers win top pick in NBA draft 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
Jackson liked off er from BrooklynThe 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
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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 fi ve
years they’ve been in the state. The Thun-
der organization also announced it would be donating $1 mil-
lion to recovery.
Online
Trending online at Metro.us 1Highlights of
Bruins-Rangers 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
New York City is your oyster 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.
Maison PremiereWith 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.Off ered Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.298 Bedford Ave., 347-335-0446
L&W Oyster Co.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).Off ered Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.254 Fifth Ave., 212-203-7772
The John Dory Oyster BarThe 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).Off ered daily, 5-7 p.m. and 11 p.m. to midnight1196 Broadway, 212-792-9000
Grand Central Oyster BarAt 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 the house,” Ingber says. Oyster Bar specials include Blue Point oysters ($1.25 each) and fried oyster slid-ers ($8.95) in the lounge and saloon only.Monday-Wednesday, 4:30-7 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m.89 E. 42nd St., 212-490-6650
Bonkers for these bivalves? Here are our favorite spots to slurp ’em.
Dig in at Maison Premiere. / MELISSA HOM
Found!
Where to go for $1 oysters
Ainsworth ParkEvery Tuesday,5-8 p.m.111 E. 18th St. 212-673-2467
BLT Fish ShackMonday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.21 W. 17th St.212-691-1011
Cafe TallulahMonday-Thursday, 5-7 p.m. and Friday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m.240 Columbus Ave. 212-209-1055
Crave FishbarMonday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.945 Second Ave. 646-895-9585
The DallowayDaily, 5-7 p.m.525 Broome St. 212-966-9620
Ditch PlainsTuesdays and Wednesdays beginning at 4 p.m., until they run out29 Bedford St. 212-633-0202
Greenwich ProjectMonday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.47 W. Eighth St. 212-253-9335
TOY Oyster BarDaily, 5-7 p.m.18 Ninth Ave. (in Gan-sevoort Meatpacking hotel) CINDY
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Tips from a pro
1Start small: Chef Sandy Ingber of
Oyster Bar in Grand Central advises: “Blue Points are my choice for beginners to start with. They’re plump and mild, easy to eat.”
2Get naked: “I person-ally like to chew an
oyster naked at fi rst to get the full fl avor pro-fi le,” says Ingber. “Then I will put stuff on top. Always try them naked fi rst and chew.”
3Choose carefully: When purchasing
oysters from fi sher-ies, they must come from certifi ed waters and must be tagged. Ingber’s tip for buying directly: Look for a tag. “Don’t buy them if there is no tag — ask to see it. Also, oysters must be closed tight. Don’t use if they’re gapped or smell bad.”
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Robert Downey Jr. is back as Tony Stark in “Iron Man 3,” opening Friday. / ZADE ROSENTHAL
The ‘Iron Man 3’ workout
“Superheroes have good bodies, even if they have Ph.D.s,” says Brad Bose, who would know: He’s Robert Downey Jr.’s per-sonal trainer. “So it was important that Robert was extremely fit and had a good muscular build — only it had to look real-istic. He’s meant to be a billionaire playboy. You don’t want him to get too big and end up looking like Captain America or The Hulk.”
Fortunately, Downey Jr. was almost ready to go for his third stint as Tony Stark in the new film opening Friday. “He’d recently finished filming ‘The Avengers,’ so he was in good shape,” Bose says. “But holding on to that muscle mass and definition for long periods of time isn’t easy. He had to get ‘re-buff.’ We were doing two-hour ses-sions, three to four days a week. By the time we were done, he’d gained five pounds of muscle and trimmed 10 pounds of fat.”
Fitness. RDJ’s trainer gives us the moves that turned him into the hero.
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The Robert Downey Jr. workout
How he got there “Robert’s cardio was never an issue,” Bose tells Metro. “A lot of people don’t want to talk about it, but the truth is, he’s 48. He’s above the curve when it comes to 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 Oram.” Bose
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Five star: Five-star cruisesare not necessarily the best— but they are usually themost exclusive, and, result-ingly, expensive. Five-starlines — such as Crystal andPrincess — cater to themost discriminating pas-sengers.
Four star: These ships’amenities will all be slight-ly less — including theprice. Rooms tend to be abit smaller, but there is usu-ally more attention to ship-board activities and theclientele trends younger.
Three star: Meet the breadand butter of the cruise in-dustry. Passengers can ex-pect a fairly good value forthe cost.
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Cruise with ‘The King’Name: Elvis CruiseWhen: Nov. 4-8Price: $599Ports visited:BahamasDeparts from:Jacksonville, Fla.For more informa-tion: www.theelvis-cruise.comIn honor of The King’s75th birthday (if he werealive, that is), this spe-cialty cruise aboard theCarnival Fascinationfeatures tribute per-formers and pre-sentations byfriends of Elvis,and includesmany Elvis-themed activi-ties. You canthank us later.Very much.
Show yourprideName: Gay CruiseWhen: Aug. 20-27Price: Starting at $2,290, perperson, per week Ports visited: Mykonos, San -torini and other Greek islandsDeparts from: Athens For more information:www.varietycruises.comVariety Cruises’ first GayCruise program includes a
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Tropical islandsnot all the sameIt’s a common misconcep-tion that Caribbean cruis-es and itineraries are pret-ty much the same. Each is-land and has its own per-sonality and style some de-rived from their colonialculture, others from theirgeography. It’s quite possi-ble to take as many as fouror five Caribbean cruisesand repeat very few is-lands — and have a com-pletely different experi-ence on each.
One-week Caribbeancruises come in three dis-tinct flavors: Eastern,Western and Southern.Short cruises of less thana week generally includeports in the Bahamas andsometimes Key West, Fla.
The Eastern Caribbean isoften the choice of first-time cruisers and thoseveterans who relish moreat-sea days with generallythree or four ports of call.In addition to sun-splashed beaches fringed
with palmtrees, the East-ern Caribbeanappeals toshoppers en-ticed by luxurygoods and duty-freeprices in places like St.Thomas, St. Martin andSan Juan.
The Western Caribbean of-fers the best options forwater-sports enthusiastsas it is considered the bestfor snorkeling and scubadiving. Typical WesternCaribbean ports includeKey West, Jamaica, Belize,Grand Cayman andCozumel.
Southern Caribbeancruises afford the choiceof more island destina-tions-— usually as manyas five, which often alsomeans fewer days at sea.A Southern Caribbeancruise is generally longer,
often 10 to 12 nights.San Juan is also a
popular embarka-tion port for shipson SouthernCaribbean itiner-aries, which often
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And not to be forgot-ten, winter cruises to the Mexican Riviera arealso very popular as they offer the allure ofwarm temperatures,beaches and plenty ofshopping.
Experience the southName: Carnival FantasyWhen: Starting May 18; various datesPorts visited: Bahamas andKey West Departs from: Charleston, S.C.For more information:www.charlestoncruisepackages.comCarnival Cruise Lines willbegin year-round servicefrom Charleston, S.C., be-ginning with a May 18 de-parture of the 2,056-passenger Carnival Fanta-sy, and will depart fromCharleston’s historic down-town. Local hoteliers are re-sponding by putting to-gether park-and-stay pack-ages so you can experiencethe beauty of Charlestonbefore or after you cruise.
Calling all thesingle ladiesName: Life Makeover Cruise When: April 18-25Price: Starts at $999Ports visited: Puerto Rico, St.Kitts and St. MaartenDeparts from: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.For more information:www.singlestravelintl.comSingles Travel Internation-al announces their Life
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Beware sea monsters!When Royal Caribbean’sAllure of the Seas islaunched in November, itwill share the accolade ofbiggest cruise ship in theworld with its sister, Oa-sis of the Seas. These seamonsters weigh in at225,000 tons and carry upto 6,300 passengers and
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The world of cruising can bedaunting to one who hasnever experienced the joy ofsitting on a sunny deck andsipping frozen beverages.For cruise virgins, JeanneWyndrum, senior vice presi-dent of Cruise.com, sharesthese tips.
Find out what’s includedA lot of people have mis-
conceptions about whatthey will need to cover.What is included: Meals,entertainment and accom-modations. What is addi-tional once you get onboard: soft drinks and alco-hol, spa treatments, shoreexcursions, certain diningexperiences, the Internetand gratuities. Thoseare the additionsyou should beready for when
you get the bill at the endof the trip.
Be preparedHave all proper documen-tation when you get toport. They are being verystrict nowadays so be sureyour namematches
your documentation ex-actly. If not, you could bedenied boarding. Sincemost cruises now requirethat you preregister online,this is a good time to makesure your passport isn’t ex-pired and all of your paper-work is in order.
Do your researchLearn about ports you willvisit. Most importantly, seehow far the port city is
from the city center, asthat makes all the differ-ence of what kind of expe-rience you will have. Forinstance, if you are goingto Rome, you’ll find thatthe port is far from thecenter of the city, so youmight want to prepur-chase a shore excursion. Itwill save you time if youhave a good idea of thecity layout and what youwant to see since yourtime at port is limited.
Book your shore excursion earlyIt depends on the placeyou are visiting, but insome cases you shouldbook in advance. If youwait until you get on theship, that’s okay, but don’t wait until the morning of.
Arrive earlyAlthough the shipmight leave at 5
o’clock, you can actuallystart to board aroundnoon. You’ll be free toenjoy the ship and decksall afternoon — this reallyadds an extra day to yourvacation and helps yourelax instead of rushing tomake departure.
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Dine when you wantThe top trend in cruise din-ing has less to do withwhat you eat than whenyou eat it: Gone are thedays when passengers re-ceived a set time — typical-ly 6 or 8 p.m. — for theirsit-down meals. Now, says
cruise expert Stewart Chi-ron, “People can eat atwhatever time they want.”For Cruise.com Senior VicePresident Jeanne Wyn-drum, the open-endedschedule transfigures thewhole trip: “It kind of eas-es your day.”
Specialty restaurantsAs ship size increases, sodoes the space for newrestaurants: “Like steak-houses, Italian, French,Asian,” Chiron says. Thenew spots feel less like din-ing halls and more likechic eateries — “The foodquality, the atmosphere,
and the accoutrements aremuch different,” he says.
Celebrity chefsMore space for restaurantsmeans more gigs for chefs— gigs restaurants are fill-ing with name-grabbingcelebrity cooks. In 2008,The North Atlantic cruiseline Cunard tapped NewEngland chef Todd Englishto author some menus.The next year, Crystalcruises brought MasterChef Nobu Matsuhisa onboard for the same calling.Expect to see more: “Iwouldn’t be surprised tosee Emeril [Lagasse] or oneof these guys doing a
cruise at some point,” saysChiron.
Healthier bitesCruise lines have tradition-ally made accommodationfor passengers with specif-ic dietary needs — justthat, now, those gluten-free and low-cholesteroloptions are starting to be-come mainstays on cabinmenus. “It’s not like,‘Here’s a few bits of let-tuce,’” says Wyndrum.“These are very good en-trees, and they’re quitepopular.”
So long, buffets of old Cruises are taking dining tothe next level Trends to expect in 2010 for yourpalate Luckily, your ship will also come with a gym
The galleys govery gourmeton these ships
CulinaryclassesHere’s where the realmsof food and onboard en-tertainment start toblur: Norwegian CruiseLine packs a training
kitchen on many of itsnewer vessels — “They’llhave like a theater set-up, as if you were in aclass,” says Chiron.“You’ll have the tableand kitchen set up, andthe chef will come out.”
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The Oasis of the Sea boasts The Cupcake Cupboard, adedicated shop that hosts hands-on decorating classes.
These days, cruising isn’tjust about retired folkcruising slowly ’round theMediterranean. There’s anew raft of exciting waysof seeing the world byboat.
The Gota Canal SteamshipCo., MS Diana, Sweden The “Good Life on Board”cruise is one for gour-mands. Special menus areconceived from producebought from the localcanal area, resulting inhearty Swedish delicacies,
and there’s a nightly wine-tasting session with thecrew’s personal sommelier. Rock your boat: At Berg, ex-ercise off all the amazing
food with a starlit swim inthe canal, or simply borrowone of the ship’s bikes to gofor a ride along the canal. www.gotacanal.se
Lyngen Lodge, Tromso Coast, Norway Combine snow, ski and seawith this unique trip to theArctic Circle. It’s based inthe luxurious LyngenLodge, on the shores of a re-mote Arctic fjord, and eachday you board a boat thattakes you to the foot of un-touched white, powderyslopes. Kick off your skisand wind down with a spotof fishing on your way backto a dinner of reindeer.Rock your boat: LyngenLodge also boats French
windows with breathtak-ing views across themountains — perfect foradmiring the NorthernLights. www.lyngenlodge.com
Right Travel, DahabeyaHadeel, Nile River, Egypt Sail the turquoise watersof the River Nile on boardthe Dahabeya Hadeel. Dis-cover the rich cultural her-itage of Egypt whiletaking time to relax onthe sailboat.Over the course
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8www.metro.usWeekend, 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 SEXY Trend. 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 Runkplus-size model for H+M
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“We don’t airbrush. There’s something sexy about that.”Arielle Lorenfounder, 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?
So yes, 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.
Junk in Runk’s trunkThe 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-
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• 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 confi dence will slowly and steadily increase.”Loren, on how to feel good naked
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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 fi t 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 fl ack for not being “fat enough?” Early on, there were some comments.I don’t get a lot. Once in a while, like when the bikinipictures 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 GREGGThe Gabifresh.com blogger just crafted
a line for Swimsuitsforall.com.
Quoted
“It wasn’t until college that I came to accept myself.”Gabi Gregg, writer, designer
SAM CASTONEMetro 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 than “are.” The chart below shows the Sex Symbols of 2013, as selected by our edi-tors from a pool of working actors who have notable projects this year — there are more shapes and sizes than there would have been in 1985, but it’s still very thin and white. “We’re go-ing in the right direction,”
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Hawaiian UndergroundSaturday, 4 p.m., Roberta’s, 261 Moore St., Brooklyn, $95You never think there’s a reason to make it out to Bushwick until Roberta’s lures you back with its pizza and wild theme parties, like this Hawaiian-style pig roast that brings some of the best chefs in the city out to one of NYC’s best restaurants.
Swig ’n’ SwineSunday, 12 p.m., Union Pool, 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn, $30Part of the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, stop by Union Pool for a day of pig and liquored-up punch, with all the money raised going to charity. You get to hang with some of the world’s leading cock-tail enthusiasts eating delicious pig. It’s tough to go wrong here.
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Charles BradleyTonight, 8, Apollo Theater, 253 W. 125th St., $32
There are soul legends, and then there are the greats that you’ve never heard of. Charles Bradley could have remained fi rmly in the latter camp, but thanks the folks at Daptone, his
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Angel OlsenSunday, 8:30 p.m. Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, $12Fans of lovely acoustic indie singer/songwriter stuff : Angel Olsen should be your new favorite thing to listen to. The Chicago-based Olsen channels both Sharon Van Etten and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and will mesmerize you live tonight at Glasslands with her voice and beautiful guitar pickings.
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The Interview Show Tonight, 8, Union Hall, 702 Union St., Brooklyn, $8This normally Chicago-based show is exactly what the title implies: Mark Bazer will talk with author Sam Lipsyte, punk legend Kathleen Hanna and New Yorker television critic Em-ily Nussbaum one-on-one about their given fi elds, live in front of a Union Hall audience. METRO
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The Spirit “The Spirit,” a noir comic by Will Eisner about a middle-class man who fi ghts 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
Comic Con The fi rst-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.
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Rubberboy Daniel Browning Smith, Guinness World Records’ World’s Most Flexible Man (aka The Rubberboy), gets his fi rst out of seven records.
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King Tooth “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.
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The French Spider-Man “The French Spider-Man” Alain Robert scales the 52-story New York Times building without any ropes or harness.
2010
Electron Boy 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 fi ghts crime, is released, co-starring Nicolas Cage. A sequel is due this year.
2010
Super Rainn Wilson stars in dark comedy “Super,” a fi lm 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 fi ght criminals.
2011
Phoenix Jones Phoenix Jones, aka Benjamin John Francis Fodor, begins fi ghting 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? Meet areal-life, high-fl ying hero
Jetman: Leaping the Alps in a single bound The Wright brothers may have been the ultimate aeronautical dreamers with the fi rst airplane fl ight, but no one has come closer than Yves Rossy to mak-ing a human fl y.
Rossy, aka Jetman, is a former fi ghter pilot who says he had always dreamed of being a bird since he fi rst witnessed an air show as a 13-year-old. The inspiration drove him to invent and patent a series of jetpacks that would fi re him through even more epic and courageous voyages.From the fi rst experiments in 2006, Rossy made his fi rst public fl ight 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 fi rst 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 fi rst interconti-nental jet fl ight, and went on to fulfi ll a deeply held personal ambition to fl y 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 benefi t of disabled
pilot school Aerobility. Rossy also hosts master classes for the next generation of jetpack pilots, which will surely produce the next great fl ying human.
Quoted
Pursue your dreams and “always have a Plan B.”Yves Rossy aka Jetman
Rossy gets some sick air. / CONTRIBUTED
Radioactive Man: The animal savior of Fukushima 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 eff ects for 40 years.
Matsumura v / CONTRIBUTED
Muscle Man: ‘This is what I do for my country’ Egypt’s economy suff ered 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 fi ght 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 fi ght as proof that Al-Essawy was a national hero.
Al-Essawy / CONTRIBUTED
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