This story could go on forever, but here’s the abbreviated version. A young woman walks into a trendy downtown bistro and grabs a stool at the bar. She possesses an almost unnatural beauty, at once alluring and intimidating. She’s appears…
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So I’m sitting by myself in a corner of this dimly lit, old-timey New York bar, on a maroon leather bench seat leaning against the wall with a bar-height, round oak table and three empty barstools between me and a…
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The verdict is in: President Trump is a serial killer … of words. The illiterate recidivist is most recently guilty of fatally wounding “imminent,” just as he did “hypocrisy” and at least a dozen other words and actions (truth, religion,…
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Discover new music. How’s that for a simple sounding new year’s resolution? And to prove that contemporary music is alive and well, here are 10 brilliant songs and albums to sample, produced this past year. “Die Waiting” by Beck from…
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by Stuart Greenbaum There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound Everybody looks what’s going down. -- Stephen Stills (“For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield) Everyone is aging; some…
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Lame that it’s going to take our familiarity with the “20/20” vision rating system to finally be comfortable with calling the new year, 2020, rightfully “twenty-twenty.” Since the turn of the millennia, we’ve been mired in the annual awkwardness of…
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The paperback Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations was an impulse buy at Target. (That’s redundant, I know.) What happened next was less predictable. As the youngish cashier scanned the book, she looked up and sighed, “He inspired…
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Who today would rule the room, any room? With the most transcendent reputation, and highest and ageless levels of respect, popularity, charisma and admiration to command unanimous attention amongst any group of people. The “It” person whose entrance into the…
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There’s art in public spaces and then there’s art on public spaces. Sidewalks to be precise. Armed with spray paint and stencils, street artists are colorizing, democratizing and weaponizing urban concrete jungles, square by square, between the cracks. There are…
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ARCHIVE UPDATE Thanksgiving is the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. It gets no respect, no respect. That the celebration is relegated to a turkey dinner says a lot about our culture. We’ve become more interested in tricks and treats and crass…
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