Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Midtown West

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Above: 99 Cent Pizza Top 2: George Segal's Commuters 1980, Port Authority, NYC Photos by Brooklyn Beat/TN August 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010

International View: Does 44 Want to Be Re-Elected in 2012?

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Few Americans consider themselves bigger than the presidency but Obama might be one of them. The man in the Oval Office, argues Toby Harnden...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

On Missing Gary Shteyngart and Pondering the Future of Books

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Circumstances, waning memory, and my eagerness for this reading resulted in our inadvertantly missing the Gary Shteyngart reading at BookCo...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Coney Island on a Tuesday Evening

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A cool breeze off the ocean offered delightful release as the sun began to set. The boardwalk and beach were busy but by no means crowded. W...
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...