Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Bloomsday: "Introibo ad altare Dei."

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--Berneice Abbott portrait of James Joyce Whether in Dublin or in Brooklyn, NY, June 16 remains forever and always, Bloomsday. BLOOMSDAY mar...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Summer's Coming: Red Hook Sunset, 8:01 PM

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Liberty Sunset, Red Hook, 6-14-2009
Friday, June 12, 2009

Nate the Great: Get me some politics, stat!

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A couple of weeks ago I left the office and stopped at Duane Reade on Joralemon and Court Street on the way home to pick up a few items. Who...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

BLOOM

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Photo by TN/Brooklyn Beat Unfortunately, the roses are going fast now. Early blooms followed by heavy rains and cool weather, leave lots of ...
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Monday, June 8, 2009

Stephen Colbert visits our troops in Iraq

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Stephen Colbert, in a camo suit, submitting to the discipline of a military haircut. Whatever one's political stripes, American freedom ...
Friday, June 5, 2009

David Carradine: Everyone (including Bob Dylan) is Kung Fu Fighting & Quentin Tarantino & Bob Dylan Have a Go at the Sweet Science

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UK music magazine UNCUT has some interesting nuggets from a past interview with the late actor David Carradine on Bob Dylan as The Boxer and...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

44, the USA & The Islamic World

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From President Obama's speech in Cairo: On women' s rights: "[The next issue] I want to address is women’s rights. I know ther...

DAVID CARRADINE ('BILL' in "KILL BILL") FOUND DEAD IN BANGKOK

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David Carradine, 73, actor in KILL BILL and numerous films and tv shows, probbaly most notably "Kung Fu" found dead in Bangkok of...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Roberto Saviano: "Gomorrah" doesn't defame Napoli

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Roberto Saviano is a courageous Italian journalist whose groundbreaking book on organized crime in Napoli (Naples) Italy and its internation...
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The Kool-Aid Kid: Richard Wolffe on the 2008 Election

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100 days not withstanding, I guess we have crossed a threshold of sorts as the journalists and pundits have had time to digest and produce r...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Mayor Mike aka "Silvio": Contemptus ergo sum

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"You are a..disgrace." At least on the surface, Mayor Mike may have a cleaner personal history than good old Silvio Berlusconi, hi...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

A Band called INDECISION: May 30 in Greenpoint

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From Brooklyn Paper. Indecision, legendary hard-core Brooklyn metal band that toured the world and lived to tell about it, is featured in an...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

IL DIVO ("The Star"): Director Paolo Sorrentino and Star Toni Servillo serve up Giulio Andreotti aka 'The Fox', 'The Black Pope'

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Directed by Napoletan writer and director Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo as former Italian Prime Minister (and current "S...
Friday, May 22, 2009

The Bob Dylan Birthday Festival: Warwick Winery

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The annual Bob Dylan Birthday tribute (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941.) The festival is located not too far from that unique co...

Summer Days: Adventures in Woodstock

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A few years back, around the Fin de siècle, we had rented a place upstate in Bearsville, near Woodstock for the summer. Very quiet with a c...