Friday, April 24, 2009

TOTALLY CHERRY, TOTALLY SPRING

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Japanese Cherry Blossoms in their last explosion on Waldorf Court in Flatbush. Pink and frilly. Ochre on stone. First tiny green leaves unfu...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

F-Train as Writer's Studio: Peter V. Brett and 'The Warded Man' aka 'The Painted Man'

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The NY Daily News today reported that author and Brooklynite Peter V. Brett completed his first novel, The Warded Man (in Europe and other c...

Saturn: Cassini spacecraft shows 6th planet, moons, in stunning detail

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Hidden knowledge and logic, slowly becoming uncovered, guides the motion and activity of the universe, from the micro to the macro. But, tra...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Coney Island Daydreamin'

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It was a perfect day to hit the shore. Coney Island was bustling. Ruby's Bar, which we had visited late last summer, was still open and ...

Last Chance: The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989

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Franz Kline, Painting No. 7 (1952) Forget Citifield or the New New York Yankee Stadium,the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hits another one c...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

'Specimen Days' & On Forgiveness: St. Francis College

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St. Francis College, located in Brooklyn Heights, continues its inspiring, reflective and creative schedule of literary, philosophical and a...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Future of the Financial Oligarchy: Dollars, Sense and Denial

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Tarp, teabaggers, bailouts and rising unemployment. In the current economic maelstrom, some see the US on track toward a much more highly ma...

Twitter: The Greying of Social Networking

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Is it our fading attention spans, incurable despite massive doses of ginko biloba and fish oil ? Or growing up in NYC with 1010 WINS newsbit...
Monday, April 13, 2009

"Springs": Lee Krasner & Nature in the Abstract

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"Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon-as, say, a lettuce leaf." Although...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Janet Rosenberg Jagan, ex-Guyana president, dies

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Janet Rosenberg Jagan, ex-Guyana president, dies March 30, 2009 MIAMI (JTA) -- Janet Rosenberg Jagan, Guyana's only female president and...

'A Better Kind of Future': Coming Up

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OK, change we got..but now, despite ticked off conservos, overly-armed desperados, and the encircling fear, now, more than ever, we really n...
Monday, April 6, 2009

"Absolutely': The Mystic from Minnesota & Thank Goodness for That

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From Newsweek: In an exclusive excerpt from a recent interview, Bob Dylan talks with author Bill Flanagan about Barack Obama, the ghosts of ...

'Terremoto": Earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy

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Viewing both the amazing artifacts and architecture of Rome, and the results of the destruction of Pompei this past December, one realizes t...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Borat is back...as Bruno: First Trailer

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Sacha Baron Cohen is back, offensive and hilarious as ever, it seems. A Trailer available here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

'No Flash in the Pan': Obama and the G20 Blues

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Caught in gentle downtown Brooklyn traffic. Imagining 44, on Air Force One, flying over the Atlantic on his way to G20. He's jamming to...