City Scenes

What's up with the weather at home? I'm sitting in the airport in Portland waiting to head east, but my flight's been pushed back for several hours.

Hooray for an airport with free wi-fi!

Checking my email, I find this from the Tenement Museum (108 Orchard St.), about tomorrow night's installment in their outstanding Tenement Talks series:

Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York with James Sanders

Tuesday, August 12 at 6:30 PM

From King Kong climbing the Empire State Building to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man lumbering through Columbus Circle, New York has been the setting for some of the most recognizable moments on film. Filmmaker and author James Sanders joins us for an illustrated lecture about how movies like 42nd Street, Taxi Driver, and Annie Hall made an already famous city into a mythic one.

Maybe if my jet-lag's worn off by then I'll be able to catch it myself.