Friday, February 18, 2011

BEAT NITE: Tonight's the Night -- An Eventide Gallery Stroll of Greater Bushwick

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Jason Andrew + Norte Maar bring back the late night with the fifth installment of BEAT NITE: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late . What has ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Other Side of the Rim

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Jerry Brown drops California State minimum wage lawsuit here Wisconsin lawmakers boycott vote that would strip State employees of collecti...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Are You Experienced?

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David Brooks' column yesterday discusses "Tyler Cowen’s e-book, “The Great Stagnation,” has become the most debated nonfiction book...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Where the Wild Things Are: Mad Maksim Lets the Wild Rumpus Begin

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Apparently the skateboarder, grafitti-scrawler, druggie and alleged murderer rampager, Maksim Gelman, had quite a weekend for himself.  DITH...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Don't Stand in the Doorways, Don't Block Up the Halls

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Before the weekend, here in the American grind, where the shards of empire and dreams tinkle to the ground like shattered crystalline snowfl...

Egypt and a new social order -- and social media

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Although the military is in the mix (at least hopefully only) until elections are held, the fact that the Egyptian people have been able to...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Egypt at the Brink - the birth of a new order ?

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Al Jazeera-English live stream here  . Al Jazeera is translated as "the Island" (aka, "The Arabian Peninsula." More on A...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Jules Gabriel Verne - February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905

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Celebrating the 183rd anniversary of the birth of the author Jules Verne on February 8, Google has posted a wonderful, interactive logo tha...
Monday, February 7, 2011

American Dreams and Dreamers

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A very nice article by Richard S. Chang, that is kind of a variation on an old Cowboy theme of a Man and His Horse. Massimiliano Nanni, one ...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

CODA: From Pages Read to Minutes Spent

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A few months back I wrote about missing a Gary Shteyngart reading which morphed into a discussion of   e-books, author readings and book si...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Bastardi! (i.e., Meteorologist Joe Bastardi) Predicts Next 3 of 5 Winters WIll Be Even Colder

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AccuWeather.Com reports that "This winter is on track to become the coldest for the nation as a whole since the 1980s or possibly even ...

Winter Wonderland, continued -- Clear Your Snow and Ice -- or Else

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It was a total ice skate into the office today. There was no safe footing, everything covered with a shiny glaze. I scraped a quarter inch o...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Alpine Chalet...on Waldorf Court

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

SOTU+1: What President Obama's Address Accomplished

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Mark Halperin on what President Obama accomplished -- and accomplished in a Big Way -- with last night's State of the Union address: ...
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SOTU + 1: Dr. Doom on the Bitter Pill of What Lies Ahead

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The reductions proposed in President Obama's State of the Union last night are just "Spare Change" according to economist Dr. ...