Transit Museum to Screen “One Track Mind” on October 7
Subway aficionado and artist Philip Ashforth Coppola and director Jeremy Workman will screen the documentary “One Track Mind” (2005)…
September 29, 2015-
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ISIS, Kid Rock, and the Death of Compassion
Today, we talk about two wars. Both challenge essential freedoms we have long taken for granted. In troubled times,…
March 4, 2015 -
Since I’m Not Working: Native American Edition
I’m currently job hunting, and while writing resumes that no one will read is really exciting, I’ve decided to also take this (hopefully brief) time to do the things I wouldn’t normally have time to do if I had a job. I don’t have a particular agenda, just wherever the mood takes me. Perhaps you […]
January 28, 2015
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Happy Voyages, Joe Franklin
When his city hummed with radio waves, autumn colored incandescence heating up bakery brown Bakelite, He lived to be…
January 25, 2015 -
Darius Rucker, Race, and Turning a Moment in Time into a True Movement
I understand that Darius Rucker is on the pants-end of a social media ass-kicking because he sang “White Christmas”…
December 15, 2014 -
Kim Kardashian, The Mother of Fame, Versus Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, the Mothers of Freedom
Yesterday, the media/interweb obsession with Kim Kardashian reached a kind of panic-like fury that could only have been equaled…
November 13, 2014 -
New York City and Taylor Swift (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Change)
I do not blame Taylor Swift for embracing her role as the new face of New York City. I…
October 30, 2014 -
Dave Grohl is Killing Rock ‘n’ Roll, Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll: Prologue to a Manifesto
We need a true form of musical activism. We need artists willing to risk everything to expose the cultural atrocities and mammon-driven careerist lies spread by the wheezing rock’n’roll machine.
October 20, 2014 -
Heights History: A Look Into The Past Of Some Montague Street Restaurants
We recently went on a trip back in time at some of the restaurants in the North Heights. Now it’s time to start doing the same down on Montague Street. What was there before today’s eateries? What do the owners want you to order if you stop by? Let’s find out! Our first stop will […]
September 19, 2014
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War: Not Just something Roger Waters whines about.
My brother Peter turns 60 this week. That is a singular event that I would like to mark pleasantly…
September 2, 2014