by Bryan Waterman | Oct 30, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
I’m not even in town and I can do my Friday outside-the-neighborhood blog update:Remembering Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009 [Harlem Bespoke; NYTimes]Historic wood windows on Staten Island [HDC Newsstand]Celebrate the Poe bicentennial for Halloween with Queens Players...
by Cyrus Patell | Jun 3, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
We’ve written here before about the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s electronics recycling events. Their benefit event takes place this Saturday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the East River Park Amphitheater. The event features live music by pianist Ray...
by Bryan Waterman | Feb 3, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
Over the course of the last month as I wrapped up my own contribution to our Cambridge Companion — a chapter on nineteenth-century theater, with a special focus on plays set in the contemporary city — I had the occasion to revisit the essay that remains...
by Cyrus Patell | Jan 3, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
E-WasteI’ve written here before about the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s e-waste recycling drives. The next one takes place tomorrow at Union Square Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The following items will be accepted for recycling: Working and non-working:...
by Bryan Waterman | Nov 30, 2007 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
Last night I caught a production of four early O’Neill one-acts or sketches, followed by a late monologue. The whole thing took place at Metropolitan Playhouse, a downtown treasure chest for anyone interested in early American theater.O’Neill, in fact, is...
by Bryan Waterman | Oct 18, 2007 | Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
I’ve been dipping in and out of Dreiser’s 1923 book The Color of a Great City, a collection of local-color newspaper sketches he had written between 1900 and 1915. He frames himself as a city walker, a young explorer, an observer in the vein of Stephen...
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