Laverne Cox: ‘I can be so hard on myself’ Eva Wiseman
Laverne Cox knew she was different because everybody told her so. She was eight when a teacher called to warn her mother, “If you don’t get your son into therapy right away, he’s going to end up in New Orleans wearing a dress.” This was Alabama, 1980, and Cox was escaping bullies every day. At 11 she attempted suicide. The bullying continued when she moved to New York in her late teens – by day she’d get harassed in the street, but by night, on stage at Lucky Cheng’s drag bar, she was celebrated, a queen. It was here that she began her transition, and it was only after wrapping season one of
Pom Moonguaklang, owner and operator of Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria in Orlando’s Milk District recently celebrated their 15th anniversary. This February, she will debut a new pop up concept called Pomisaan featuring regional Thai dishes like K-NOM JEEN, a “Thai spaghetti” fish pureed with lemon grass, turmeric, krachai ginger root, and vegan LAAB Hed a dish full of hearty mushrooms, a blend of fresh maitake, shiitake, and enoki, all fresh ingredients lime, mint, cilantro, cilantro, and fermented soy.
Chef/Owner Pom was born and raised in Thailand and made her way to New York earning a degree as a pastry chef. She used her talent and creativity working for such restaurant’s as NoBu (Robert Dinero’s & Nobuyuki “Nobu” Matsuhisa’s Restaurant) and the famous Drag Cabaret restaurant, Lucky Cheng’s. Then moved to Orlando, and opened Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria.
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The numbers are in: Manhattan condo developers are pulling back.
The combined projected sellout for the 10 priciest projects approved to start marketing this year is just $1.86 billion, down from $3.1 billion last year, according to an analysis by
The Real Deal.
Only two years ago, the combined total was $7.3 billion, with HFZ Capital Group’s XI condo topping the list.
The 2020 figures illuminate the shift toward smaller, less expensive projects as the city grapples with a glut of unsold units after the mid-decade condo boom. The pandemic has placed more pressure on the market and a slew of mezzanine lenders have begun initiating UCC foreclosure auctions as talks with developers collapse.