Friday, January 22, 2010

From the U.K.: From One Extreme to the Other-- The Photography of Nat Finkelstein

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Three Icons. Poster from the Idea Generation Gallery Show on the photography of Nat Finkelstein. Photograph by Nat Finkelstein. Nat Fin...

Conan Farewell: Take the Money and Run

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Conan O'Brien Neil Young is among the guests on Conan's last "Tonight Show." In rejecting NBC's bid to reshuffle...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bright Star

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So quickly, in January, the afternoon Sun lingers longer and longer. The days are changing, although we are still in winter, the changing li...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Remembering America's Greatest Spiritual, Ethical and Political Leader, Martyr

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) Had he not been martyred, could the Rev. Dr.King have been the United States o...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Haiti: When the already fragile is further shaken

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A map showing the areas in Haiti, on the island of Hispaniola, impacted by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Tuesday. From time ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Update from Cortelyou Road: The Latest From The Wall

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Ditmas Park's own version of "The DaVinci Code" -- the grafitti wall at Cortelyou Road. From the plain to the arcane, it's...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Montague Street Journal: Brooklyn-Based Reflections on Bob Dylan

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In “Joey,” from the Desire album, Bob Dylan sings about Joey Gallo (aka “Crazy Joe” and “Joe the Blond”), a mob figure from Red Hook, Brookl...

Happy Friday: It Really Is 2010

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The end of the first business week of the year; well, it will be in a few hours. The post-holiday lethargy begins to lift. For what it's...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Wassily Kandinsky @ Guggenheim Museum through 1/13/10

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"Thirty" by Wassily Kandinsky 1937 Wassily Kandinsky 1913 or earlier Portrait of Kandinsky by Gabriele Munter, a German abstract e...
Friday, January 1, 2010

2010

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Above, Times Square, 2009 2010 "America": Audio Recording Walt Whitman, Brooklynite, reading from "America." [This is a ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Tis Wonderfulish: Yip Yip Hooray for Finian's Rainbow

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Forget Washington, DC for the moment. Hope, happiness and the promise of change have touched down at the St. James Theater, although re-emer...
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Art of the Crash @ Fusion Arts Museum: Closing Night Event, Sunday, December 27

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Art car at the Fusion Arts Museum, above. Above, Fusion art by Shalom Newman. An entertaining end-of-year art event: a Closing Night Party f...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Watching the Passing of Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, Years, Decades..............

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Bob Dylan performs "Cry A While" here at the 2002 Grammys and on an audio clip from Stockholm in March 2009 . Getting into the y...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

President Obama, Political Climate and Health Care Reform

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Despite some recent diminishing polling numbers for President Obama and his administration, today's Quinnipiac poll showed some interes...

Dylan and Kubler-Ross: The 5 Stages of "Christmas in the Heart"

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"Love and Theft" ? "Love and Death" ? Good grief! Harold Lepidus's review in the Examiner.Com takes the long way aro...