Last year, British artist Di Mainstone was filmed playing the Brooklyn Bridge like a harp. She accomplished this feat using a specially designed vest that allows her to pluck the bridges suspension cables like a harp.
August 13, 2014Because it’s Wednesday, and because it would simply be tasteless to engage in a detailed discussion of the Rule…
August 13, 2014Two German artists are taking credit for last month’s Brooklyn Bridge flag swap. Heck, it was all a tribute…
August 12, 2014A rather grievous error in the New York Times – yes, yet another one – has set me off…
August 12, 2014As most, if not all, of you know by now, Robin Williams died today. The photo at left, by Photographer’s Mate Airman Milosz Reterski (Navy NewsStand) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, was taken while he was “entertain[ing] the crew of USS Enterpr…
(via Self-Absorbed Boomer)
When I use this phase “The Secret History of Rock’n’Roll,” I am not talking about hushed conspiracies, or Masonic…
August 11, 2014A young woman murdered, her body dumped at the edge of a park in the poor part of town.…
August 8, 2014Back in May, the city let it be known to tourists and others inclined to leave “love locks” on the Brooklyn Bridge to cut it out. While the totally ridiculous practice of leaving a gym lock fastened to a public place as a sign of a couple’s devotion has roots going back 100 years, it’s […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)
As children, we are awed and entertained by dinosaurs because they have a scale and size incomprehensible to us,…
August 8, 2014Dear Layne: Most of my personal myth seems to refer to events that took place in the early 1980s. …
August 7, 2014