by Bryan Waterman | Jun 3, 2011 | Events, Music, Neighborhood Scenes
The annual HOWL! FESTIVAL kicks off today in the East Village. Opening day, this year, coincides with the 85th anniversary of Ginsberg’s birth. Per tradition, the poet Bob Holman will lead a group reading of Howl with a cast of friends and fellow poets. From the...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 12, 2011 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes
A post from last year that rounds up our Patti-related content on this site (and a little bit elsewhere as well). Since then, we took note that her 2010 memoir, Just Kids, won the National Book Award. Most of what I have to say about Television I’ve saved for...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 14, 2010 | Music, Writing New York
We’ve had quite a bit of content on Patti Smith over the last however many years we’ve been running this site. She’s one of the figures from the downtown scene to whom we devote extended attention in our Writing New York class; students are expected...
by Bryan Waterman | Aug 14, 2008 | Film, Music, People |
Last night we planned to see the new Woody Allen film (though they never bill them as the new Woody Allen films these days). Turns out we had the dates wrong and it doesn’t open until Friday, so we caught a quick cab down the street to Film Forum where the Patti...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 20, 2008 | Neighborhood Scenes, People, Writing New York
I was doing a little reading this morning in anticipation of writing something about Patti Smith’s song “Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger” and its place in a long line of complicated cross-racial imaginings that crop up every time we teach Writing...
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