by Bryan Waterman | Jun 25, 2009 | Music
From the Times’ Arts Beat blog:Reaction in New York | 7:51 p.m. Mr. Jackson first performed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1969 at the age of 9. The Jackson 5 won Amateur Night. “We will always remember Michael in our hearts as a true Apollo legend,...
by Bryan Waterman | Dec 1, 2008 | Books, Writing New York
The Guardian’s Travel section published a piece last week admonishing readers to throw out their NYC guidebooks and turn to the city’s literary heritage instead. Advice we can stand behind — though we still have favorite guidebooks we’d...
by Bryan Waterman | Oct 8, 2008 | Odds and Ends
I’ll be in Germany for the next week. No, I’m not part of the young artist set abandoning New York for Berlin. I have a conference in Dresden but will spend a couple days in the world’s new arts capital too. I won’t likely be blogging while...
by Bryan Waterman | Aug 6, 2008 | City on Stage, Complete
There’s a famous anecdote about the first appearance of Mose the Bowery B’hoy on the New York stage. Played by neighborhood boy Frank Chanfrau, Mose, the fireman-butcher, makes his entrance in Benjamin Baker’s 1848 farce A Glance at New York by...
by Bryan Waterman | Jul 29, 2008 | Film, Writing New York
So I’ve spent the better part of the last week holed up in a cabin somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, without the Internet, about as far from Gotham as you can get. The Movie was playing in town on the local one-screener, of course, since we’re still...
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