Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Crooner's Delight: New from Bob Dylan - Full Moon and Empty Arms

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From Spirits in the Night, a forthcoming album by Bob Dylan, a performance of a Frank Sinatra tune. A nice article on Dylan, his love fo...
Friday, April 25, 2014

The Piketty Factor: "Capital in the 21st Century" - The right book for the "Right" Time?

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Economist Thomas Piketty's book, "Capital in the 21st Century" is already causing a stir in media, political and economic circ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Love for Sale: John Tuturro's Fading Gigalo

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John Tuturro's Fading Gigalo, somewhat ill-named but surprisingly rich in nuance for what sounded like a run of the mill sex farce.. Woo...

Anti-Semitism Amidst the Chaos in Ukraine

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A flier distributed outside of a synagogue in East Ukraine ordered Jews to register and provide proof of property ownership; local officials...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Ai Weiwei: According to What? Comes to Brooklyn Museum

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Springtime at the Brooklyn Museum is an event in itself with the opening of the first major New York area retrospective if the work of artis...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

"Reconstructing the Universe": Italian Futurism's Paradoxes and New Ideas

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" Boxes of love  is  preserved" is a  collection of short stories by  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti  , originally published in  1927  ...

Flatbush Spring: Snow Fields and Japanese Cherry Tree Buds

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Photos from Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn
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 ...