Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Politics Behind the Killing of Osama Bin Ladin

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Seymour Hersh in the London Review of Books on The Killing of Osama Bin Ladin And the political jockeying, intrigue and dissimulation that a...
Monday, May 25, 2015

On the Feast of Crispian

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This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And ro...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Museum Days: Reflections on An Institution on Eastern Parkway

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A year or so ago I attended, with My Better Half, an evening workshop at the Brooklyn Museum for art educators, as her guest. It was held in...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Summ-Summ-Summertime: Rooftop Films Schedule Released

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It must be summer --- Rooftop Films releases another exciting schedule of outdoor movies. Tickets available online. 7 Chinese Brothers with ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Sakura Matsuri on a Little Street

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Reports from the Field indicate the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is jammed for its annual spring event but here in Flatbush, Deep in the Heart ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Loretta Lynch Confirmed as Attorney General

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Despite the political foot dragging of the GOP, the confirmation of Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the United States, the first woman of...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

NYC Art: Light, Dark and Everything in Between

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Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I at the Neue Galerie and featured at the heart of Simon Curtis's film Woman in Gold Je...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Waits on Wednesday: "God Used Me as a Hammer Boys/To Beat His Weary Drum"

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Hoist That Rag by Tom Waits 2004 from "Real Gone"
Monday, March 30, 2015

"When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’/You can say it just as good": One Too Many Mornings

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'Love and Theft' and Art and Reinvention: Bob Dylan and the Band from "The Basement Tapes Raw" (Bootleg Series: Vol. 11)...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Critical Knowledge: "What Isis Really Wants" in The Atlantic

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Graeme Wood's article in the March 2015 issue of The Atlantic explores the complications and contradictions of the group waging their ow...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Solzhenitsyn, Putin and the New Old Russia

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In an article in Politico, Peter Eltsov explores the improbably relationship between Russian leader and former KGB official Vladimir Putin a...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Freedom Now, Freedom Forever: Cui Jian "Nothing to My Name"

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Using the metaphor of a young guy talking to his girlfriend, who rejects him because he has nothing, Cui Jian, preeminent Chinese musician,...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

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Photos from the Ebenezer Baptist Church and Dr. King Historical National Memorial Site in Atlanta by Tony Napoli   While it seems the journe...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Thomas Merton: Writer, Mystic, Spiritual Seeker

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What's the opposite of an encomium? Poet Thomas Merton explored this in "Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City "; Merton, ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Coda: Four Jewish Murdered Hostages in Paris Identified

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P4:45 P.M.   The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions has released the names of the four hostages killed at the kosher super...