Tuesday, April 15, 2014

"They Quit Before They Started Their Search" - Wicked Gravity by the Jim Carroll Band

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My high school alma mater, Bishop Ford, Brooklyn, NY is closing. A sigh and a deep breath and the news prompts memory and a plunge back in...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Coda to the Coda: The Federal Government and The Ranchers

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Alright then: UPDATE: Sheriff Announces Bureau of Land Management Will Cease Operation against rancher Clive Bundy over grazing land dispute...

Coda: Sacred and Profane: Religious freedom and the Waco Disaster

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Reflections on reading James Tabor's  and Eugene Gallagher's Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America asks th...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Remembering Uncle Rocco

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A kind and generous heart and loving father and grandfather. Retired FDNY and WW2 US Navy veteran. Rest in Peace.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Sacred and Profane: Violence, Vision and the Waco Disaster

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More than 2 decades after the stand off at the Waco Branch Davidian compound which led to what appears to have been the avoidable deaths of ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

When Gravity Fails: Inflation and the Birth of the Universe

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Alan Guth was one of the first physicists to hypothesize the existence of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly a...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Symbol and Substance: The Semiotics of Governing in NYC

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It seems both the City at large, the administration and the media are in a state of flux as the BdB mayoralty moves from the transition to t...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

The 2014 Armory Show: Visual Feasts and Cultural Landscapes

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Under Heaven 20121020,   Xu Zhen, 2012. FOCUS: China   Flowers,   Andy Warhol, 1970. Sims Reed Gallery    Capri ...

Top of the World

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Time Magazine's dramatic cover photo of the top of the new 1 World Trade Center/td>
Saturday, March 1, 2014

"The Less I Say About It The Better"

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http://youtu.be/IoEIzkpa0P0 St Vincent and David Byrne perform This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) live 2013   Two very courageous artists...

Banks at HRA: The deBlasio Administration Selects its Leadership

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http://nyti.ms/ 1csPqWf Like Johnny Caspar the mob boss says in millers crossing "running things, kid, it ain't easy"... Manag...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

'The Mighty Storm'

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"The Mighty Storm" by Peter Bradley Adams recorded in Nashville http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1aLcubTtju8 http://albumstreams.com/s...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The "Mirror Man": Art Spiegelman Retrospective

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The Jewish Museum's presentation of Co-Mix: An Art Spiegelman Retrospective presents an exceptionally detailed summary of the life and w...

My Roman Ruminations: "The Persian Drunkard Follows Me"

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"Got the fever/down in my pocket, The Persian drunkard follows me/ You can take me to your gate but I can't unlock it/ You see you ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Ai WeiWei Art Destroyed by Protester at Miami Museum

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Part of a work by artist Ai Weiwei was destroyed at the Perez Museum in Miami  by a Miami-based artist as a protest against what was termed ...