Gilberto Aceves Navarro’s Las Biciciletas appeared at the Fruit Street Sitting Area in Brooklyn Heights last week. Karl Junkersfeld has filed a video report about them.
There are many exhibits in Brooklyn and Manhattan through September….
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)
It is my understanding that AC/DC is readying a new album and tour without founding guitarist Malcolm Young. I…
July 10, 2014Rock’n’roll is a beautiful lie. A gorgeous, shimmering, inspiring, invigorating, energizing, calming, challenging, reassuringly ordinary beast…but a beautiful lie.…
July 10, 2014No faux Joseph Mitchell reminiscences today, or Thor-babbling, just random noise. If I could anoint THE GREATEST LIVING HUMAN…
July 8, 2014
People might tell you something is impossible, unfeasible, and ridiculous; but you do it anyway, because you think it’s…
July 5, 2014A tipster winks to us that if you’re in the nabe on Independence Day, you’ll get to be one of the first patrons of JTH Next Door. Not quite a soft-opening, the doors will be open and while you may not be able to enjoy the oysters quiiite yet, you’ll definitely be able to have […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)
Since we are in the midst of the quadrennial potpourri of bonhomie known as the World Cup, it seems…
July 1, 2014
Today, June 28, 2014 is the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife,…
(via Self-Absorbed Boomer)
Pity poor Jacob Cerf. A French Jew who was educated first to be a nobleman’s valet, and then an…
June 27, 2014In yesterday’s New York Times, an article about the heated congressional race between Charles Rangel and Adriano D. Espaillat…
June 26, 2014