Wednesday, October 8, 2014

'Capetown Fringe' by Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand): Cool Jazz for a Wednesday Morning

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Great jazz musician, who divides his time between NYC and South Africa, Mr. Ibrahim will be performing in NYC this month .
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Gilbert Sorrentino's Bay Ridge

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Now that the wheels have all turned, the ratchets clicked and the jewels spun on and on into my next decade, I see that despite the fleeting...
Monday, September 8, 2014

"The First Quality of a Warrior": ISIS - Politics or Battle Porn?

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Dexter Filkins in The New Yorker: "It’s hard to watch the video of Steven Sotloff’s last moments and not conclude something similar: th...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

A 'Plutocrat' speaks out against Income Inequality

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Nick Hannauer writing in Politico: "No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human histor...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Kareem Abdul Jabbar: Race + Class Inequality = Apocalypse Now

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Writing in Time magazine, columnist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes: "This fist-shaking of everyone’s racial agenda distracts America from t...
Monday, July 28, 2014

On American Freedom and American Responsibility

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What our tired nation still owes the world: Robert Kagan's recent provocative - and important- recent article in the New Republic on ...

Sigmar Polke at MoMA: Art, Anti-Art, Art Squared, Art for Dummies, and An Artists' Artist (Take your pick)

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From Sigmar Polke's massive, sprawling retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, "Alibis: 1963-  2010" Site here:  http://www...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Seeking Higher Ground

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James Fallows in The Atlantic, in attempting to assess the real effectiveness of the Iron Dome missile system, perhaps unwittingly reveals w...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

VV: Bob Marley and "The White Album": How a Legend Became - Posthumously- an Household Name

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From Chris Kornelis in the Village Voice: 'Robinson believed he could sell a million copies of the album, but to do it he would have to ...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Independence

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Suite: Judy Blue Eyes CSN at Woodstock   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azgwfnZu7c&sns=em
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Inequality Isn't Inevitable

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"We are not embracing a politics of envy if we are reversing a politics of greed":Economist  Joseph E. Stiglitz on how politics - ...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Alan Turing: June 23, 1914 - June 7, 1954

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Alan Mathison Turing ,  OBE ,  FRS  ( 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician,  logician ,  cryptanalyst , philosopher,  com...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Log Splitter of Avenue P

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Photo by Anthony Napoli, Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn

Baptism by Fire: Touch the Wall and Touch the Heart

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N.R. Kleinfield's NYT cover story on FDNY "proby" Jordan Sullivan is deeply felt and Pulitzer worthy. A must read in today...
Friday, June 20, 2014

When Drones Fall....

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Over 400 drones have crashed since 2001, many internationally at scenes of various US l'aventurra , but also in the US, according to Fed...