by Bryan | May 31, 2012 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes, Pop Culture, Teaching
Dinosaur, “Kiss Me Again,” 12-inch, side A, 1978. Composed by Arthur Russell. Remix by Jimmy Simpson. The personnel for this record blows my mind: Arthur Russell (cello, organ) David Byrne (guitar) Sammy Figueroa (percussion) Frank Owens (piano) Henry...
by Bryan | May 26, 2011 | Film, Music, Pop Culture
Music by Lou Reed, images from a number of Warhol’s films. Ellen Willis writes in 1979, a year after “Street Hassle” was released: Though Lou Reed rejected optimism, he was enough of his time to crave transcendence. And finally — as “Rock...
by Cyrus | Apr 18, 2011 | Pop Culture
OPENING SLIDE AT TODAY’S WRITING NEW YORK LECTURE March 14, 1979: Woody Allen
by Cyrus | Jan 25, 2011 | Architecture, Film, Neighborhood Scenes, Pop Culture
Given our ongoing interest in that classic New York film Ghostbusters (see here and here and here), it seems only right to present you with this picture, created by Lower East Side polymath Shawn Chittle, whose website brings together a variety of interests: the Lower...
by Cyrus | Jan 13, 2011 | City on Stage, Pop Culture, Uncategorized
Last week my J-Term class went to the Whitney Museum to see the exhibition Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, which is on display through April 10. In our course, Hopper represents one strain of what William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff call “New York...
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...
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