by Bryan | May 23, 2011 | Out and About, People, Teaching, Writing New York
This afternoon my Downtown Scenes class was fortunate enough to take a walking tour of the East Village (or a portion of the Lower East Side, as he would have it) with Cary Abrams, a long-time teacher, friend of PWHNY, and affiliate of the Lower East Side History...
by Bryan | May 8, 2011 | Out and About, People
Speed Levitch at Bethesda Fountain, Central Park. Sunday, 8 May 2011. One of my favorite people, one of my favorite places. Can’t think of much else I’d rather have done on a sunny spring afternoon in New York. Previously on PWHNY. And...
by Bryan | Mar 14, 2011 | Music, Odds and Ends, Out and About
For the next week, while NYU is on spring break, things may continue to be a little slow around these parts. Be assured, though we’re hard at work (returning copy edits on these, for instance), we feel a little like this thanks to the midterm reprieve: Girl Walk...
by Bryan | Dec 17, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Out and About
Because I sometimes only get out of my neighborhood when I’m online. Sad, I know. Calling out the Times for not knowing much about Marble Hill, where Manhattan and the Bronx meet by land. [Boogie Downer] The Times should have talked to Michael Miscione,...
by Bryan | Dec 14, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Out and About, Pop Culture
While I’ve been working on my book about Television’s Marquee Moon I’ve had ample opportunity to poke around the history of Club 82, a historic downtown drag venue (founded in the late ’50s by the mob, who controlled much pre-Stonewall gay...
by Bryan | Dec 10, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Out and About
File under: Things I probably won’t see/do in person, given they’re outside my little downtown bubble, and also given the fact that my next two December Saturdays, per long-standing Smith-Waterman family tradition, will be spent in the back room of DBA for...
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