by Cyrus Patell | 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 Bryan Waterman | Aug 8, 2010 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes
Vivien Goldman, from “To Hell & Back,” Sounds, 8 October 1977: “I WONDER whether the bright spark who thought up the new Sire Records slogan Don’t Call It Punk realised exactly how spot on he/she was. Take a musician like Richard...
by Bryan Waterman | Jul 6, 2010 | Art, Books, Out and About |
I haven’t had a chance to preview the Lush Life LES group show yet. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Franklin Evans (no relation to the Walt Whitman temperance novel), the show opens officially on Thursday evening at nine different LES galleries. As the name...
by Bryan Waterman | Aug 25, 2008 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Resources |
I blogged this elsewhere last year, but this afternoon I’m leading an annual Sweets and Cheap Eats on the LES walking tour for students returning to the Residential College where I live as faculty in residence.If you were to add something to this tour, what...
by Bryan Waterman | Mar 10, 2008 | Neighborhood Scenes, Resources
A few weeks back, my dad emailed me a link to John Strausbaugh’s Times article on the history of jazz and other popular entertainment at Lincoln Square, a “cradle for serious grooving” roughly in the area where Lincoln Center now stands.The email...
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