Walkers in the City

by | May 5, 2010 | Out and About

As our students or readers of Cyrus’s introduction to the Cambridge Companion know, we love the recurring figure of the tour guide in the literature of the city. Often a fl

How to Live in a Lost City

by | May 25, 2009 | Film, Neighborhood Scenes | 1 comment

A few entries back I posted a short film, 3rd Avenue El, which I’d run across thanks to Bowery Boys. When I first watched it, I noticed at the end a tag indicating the film had been posted to the web by weirdovideo.com, which sounded like something worth...