Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Howard Stern - September 28, 1995: A Tribute to Alison Steele plus Siskel & Ebert

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One of my most popular blog posts is my 2007 tribute to the late NYC DJ Alison Steele. Nicknamed "The Nightbird", she ruled the o...

Remembering the 1964 World's Fair

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Some years are transformative -- and 1964 was one of them. Like 1994, it was a "hinge-of-history" year, a year when everything ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Soul of a City Defined

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It can become tiresome to hear New Yorkers, like yours truly, always moan and complain about how NYC is changing for the worse, how the ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Interview: Jesse Thorn of Maximum Fun and "Bullseye"

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If you're a pop culture and public radio fan like me, then you must check out "Bullseye" , the "show about things that a...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Midtown Blues

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Change is constant. In life -- and in New York City. This wouldn't be the greatest city in the world if it wasn't always trans...

Classic Mr NYC

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In 2008, I did a couple blog posts about the year 1994. One concerned a movie called "The Wackness" that was a piece of nostalg...

NYC Etiquette

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Interesting segment today on WNYC about how we New Yorkers should comport ourselves in the streets and public institutions of our fair cit...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Subway Cake

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Is This Real?

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In the late 1990s, I had a roommate with a subscription to The New Republic . One fine summer day, while he was elsewhere, I opened up an ...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

NYC Streets in Imagination

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Cities are only as great as their people. And, of course, many great people have lived in NYC over the centuries.  In fact, so many not...
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