Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Bob Dylan and The Beats -- American Visions and Highway Dreams

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Photograph: Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Barbara Rubin, Bob Dylan, and Daniel Kramer backstage at McCarter Theater, in Princeton, New Je...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Remembering Jean Michel Basquiat - December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988

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The Artist at Rest in Armani - Photo AP/Brooklyn Museum Jean Michel Basquiat, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY Photo by Brooklyn Beat...
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On the Road Again II

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Delaware River, New Hope, PA Above: Franklin Mills Mall, Franklin Mills, PA Photos by Brooklyn Beat/TN For some  reason, Pennsylvania ...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Movies: Eat Pray Love

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Eat Pray Love, directed by Ryan Murphy, starring Julia Roberts, based on the book of the same title by Elizabeth Gilbert, is a light but e...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Coda: Worth Doing and Seeing in Harrisburg, PA

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Above, The Midtown Scholar, huge, wonderful dealer of more than one million discounted, used, rare, academic and general interest books.  It...
Monday, August 9, 2010

You Are the Eyes of the World: Remembering Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995

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Remembering Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995), an American musician best known for his lead guitar ...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Beyond the Monoculture of Modernity: Chanson de la Croisades: Chevalier

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A brief sojourn from the present -- Chanson de la Croisades: Chevalier, performed by Al-Darwish and Hesperion XxI, from Jordi Savall'...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Boro Prez on PPW Bike Lane: "New York Is Not Amsterdam"

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Borough President Marty Markowitz, on NY1 last night , criticized Transportation Commish Janette Sadik-Khan for placement of the two way bik...
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A Package of Sunlight Reaches Earth

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Photo by Jesper Gronne    Aurora Borealis from the arrival on Earth yesterday of the Coronal Mass Ejection . On 1 August, almost the enti...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Freud's Last Session: The Lion, the Witch and the Psychoanalyst at the West Side Y

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C.S. Lewis (Mark H. Dold) and Sigmund Freud (Martin Rayner) A provocative summer surprise, The Barrington Stage Production of   Freud's...
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Criminal Intent-Brooklyn: Murder, Assault on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope

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As reported by Gothamist last night  and in passing by NY1, one man was bludgeoned and another stabbed at 5th Avenue and 12 th street in Par...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

On the Road III- Pittsburgh and the Andy Warhol Museum

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The 7th Street Andy Warhol Bridge over the Allegheny River connects the downtown/strip area with the Northside - home of the Andy Warhol Mus...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

On the Road II-Pittsburgh, PA, at the Confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers

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It was after visitng the recent Brooklyn museum exhibit on the later  works of Andy Warhol that we thought about visiting Pittsburgh, the c...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

On the Road - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the Susquehana River

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Sunset, Susquehana River, July 26, 2010 Sunset, Susquehana River Market Street Bridge The Walnut Street footbridge over the  Susquehana ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

More Brooklyn Daze: Let the Zappolla Special Shine a Light on Me

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When I was a kid in Windsor Terrace, there was a candy store on 10th avenue between Prospect Avenue and 17th Street. It was a little place, ...