If February plans to be the coldest month in NYC this year, fatten me up and put me in a bear cave until it hits and stays 50 degrees. I needed cash downtown this morning. Wickedly windy, I ran to the HSBC near Duane Park north of Chambers. After the bank, I jogged down Warren… Read more »
WRITE ON NEW YORK Manhattan is the richest of the boroughs but is no longer the most interesting. You can walk Manhattan a whole day and see only people who have everything—not the stuff of story. This isn’t an insult. I’m pretty sure that successful, beautiful, affluent people revel in their status and want the… Read more »
It’s always been my philosophy to engage in any and all adventure within reason. I have gone skydiving, hiked mountain trails, traveled to foreign lands, acted in a play, started a punk rock band and even had a bit part in a movie. The one adventure that still terrified the shit out of me was… Read more »
This week I had the privilege of interviewing Lloyd A Williams, CEO of The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce; a phone conversation that lasted approximately 25 minutes. A dialogue focused on paramount issues facing local communities and the importance of becoming involved in community based activities. A syndrome fading into oblivion because of social-mediums and… Read more »
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 »
Stories are an essential part of human civilization. Every person’s life is one’s own individual narrative. There are also stories that have been told and preserved for hundreds and even thousands of years. There is the story of Abraham and Isaac, Siddhartha Gautama and the Bohdi Tree, Achilles and Agamemnon, Arjuna and Krishna, Mohammad and… 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 »
WRITE ON NEW YORK Back and forth, their lawyer, my agent, their lawyer, my agent, for weeks and then a month and then two. Finally, my agent tells me I need to walk away from the deal, it isn’t fair, and I call the producers and say, “We need to meet.” There are three and… Read more »
The lives of musicians are endlessly fascinating. Through dedicated and devoted practice, the instruments become part of the their being, a natural appendage of their life. The instruments become their voice through which they communicate with the world. The stimulus of their life, the spirit of their time, their personal desires and heartbreaks are transformed… Read more »
