I would like to borrow Mike Kelly’s imagination for a few days, so I can create a grand metaphor for life itself. Hurry to PS1 before the fresh loafs of inspiration leak away into the good warm world. Mike Kelly at PS1 managed to decant every drop of his wonderfully colorful mind into a multi-dimensional… Read more »
Like my father and his mother, I love my stuff. I’m no Collyer brother, my place is neat, in it’s own way. I still own my first two records, both by Dave Seville and the Chipmunks: “Witch Doctor,” in 1958, and 1959, “Alvin’s Harmonica.” The football is from 1969 and the main reason it’s still here: I… Read more »
On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Matthew Sheahan made some interesting points illustrating the ironies in programs such as affirmative action to counter biases from the past. However, this issue can be considered from different perspectives, and the recognition of a diversity of perspectives provides the most wholesome view and greatest understanding. To begin,… Read more »
New York City’s newly appointed Mayor Bill de Blasio, and crowned City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito, both progressive liberals have corroborated on Blasio’s political agenda to expand a legislation allowing sick-days to more that 300,000 workers. An enactment that requires businesses with over five or more employees to provide a minimum of five paid… Read more »
Walking east near the 59th Street Bridge, I saw a startling shadow up ahead. A bishop’s crook, twenty feet tall, on the smooth surface of a brick wall painted white. The light pole’s reflection flickered. I fumbled for my camera but before I could pull it out the shadow slipped away along with the sunlight… Read more »
New York State may soon embrace medical marijuana. We’d be better off if the government legalized it outright. Why talk half-steps when other states have already made cannabis legal? It was Tommy Chong who put it to New York via social media, saying that we were behind the high times. New York used to be… Read more »
Fortunately, this holiday season did not trigger a new search for expandable waist pants. My overeating was sporadic and there was no fatal wound as there was in 2009. That year my “Lost Weekend” lasted two weeks. I ate golden cake with double chocolate icing for dinner, five times. I devoured 13 velvet cupcakes with… Read more »
Several years ago, while visiting the tourist sites in Manhattan around the holidays with some family, we were walking on Central Park South after a stop at The Plaza. As we passed by the line of hansom cabs, my Grandmother remarked that she had never taken a horse-drawn carriage ride through Central Park. My father… Read more »
An early 1980s New Yorker moment “Please! Step on the scale!” A firm male voice directed me. I waited a second; listening hard to make sure she sounded busy three rooms away. When I heard the sink running, I got on and the number came up. “Your weight is 178 pounds. Have a nice day…. Read more »
A New Year is almost upon us, and New York City will have lots of things going on, per usual. Here are some things to watch for, look forward to or get ready to hate in 2014. New Mayor: Bill de Blasio is the first Democrat elected mayor in New York in more than 20… Read more »
