I Suffered for This Top Ten Song List, Now It’s Your Turn
Recently, Tim Broun, whom I’ve known since we were both teenagers, asked me to contribute a playlist to his…
July 30, 2014-
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The 13th Apostle by Dermot McEvoy
One thing about historical fiction: if you know anything about the history, there are no spoilers. When I picked up The 13th Apostle, I knew how it would end. Michael Collins would die by an assassin’s bullet. I knew it was because of a dispute that ha…
July 29, 2014
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Watch the Cone: One Man’s Struggle at the Brooklyn Heights Haagen Dazs
The following is a Brooklyn Bugle reader’s account of their experience at the Montague Street Haagen Dazs in Brooklyn Heights.
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Casting Atrocities Live! Watch the Full Cast and Loose Show from Joe’s Pub Now
Lynn Rosenberg’s Cast and Loose Tumblr has become sort of a legend. For about the last year or so,…
July 29, 2014 -
Books, Race, and Other Things I admit I Know Very Little About
I can imagine little more challenging than writing about the experience of being black in America if you are…
July 29, 2014 -
Clothes in Pop Music, Part 1, 1955-63
My friend Moira Redmond has a blog called Clothes in Books. When she started it, I reminded her that Ayn Rand heroines favored high waisted gowns in the ‘Empire’ style, because she had, during her term as Fray Editor, remarked that any post mentioning …
July 28, 2014
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Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” and the Lost Art of Artisanal Recording
Change is constant, change is unavoidable. All of our favorite buildings will one day be destroyed, all our favorite…
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Friday Random Noise: The Third Greatest Band of All Time, That Hit Song I Played On
The Random Noise List: WORST BAIT AND SWITCH ON CLASSIC ROCK RADIO: Okay, “Riders on the Storm” fades out,…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Amy Falls Down” A Novel by Jincy Willett
Some years ago, Michael Kinsley explored the notion of a political gaffe, an event, he said, when “a politician…
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Wooly Bully Is A Very Effing Heavy Song
“Wooly Bully” came on the radio. I’ve been listening to it for a lifetime, but I never really heard…
July 24, 2014