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Museum Mile

In Events, art, culture on 4 June 2008 with no comments

Yesterday evening I went to museum mile, thereby crossing another New York event off my ever growing list of things to be done. The festival covers the mile long stretch between 82nd and 105th on Fifth Avenue that includes free admission to the Met, Neue Gallerie, Goethe Institute, Guggenheim, Jewish Museum and a few others.
This […]

Alice Smith

In Events, concert, culture on 8 March 2008 with 1 comment

I saw Alice Smith perform last night at Highline Ballroom.
In June 2006 I came across Alice Smith on Big Stereo and sought out a couple of her song. March 2007 I met someone else who dug the song “Dream” as much as I did, and had a deja vu experience. “What song is this” I […]

Nuyorican Poetry Slam Finals

In Events, culture, poetry, writers on 2 February 2008 with no comments

The Nuyorican Poetry Cafe is always a good time and a requisite for anyone living in New York City. Its the place where a lot of the best and the brightest of the city have started their careers and its been a dream of mine forever to read on their stage (it will […]

Mudita and the Pursuit of Happiness

In Events, culture, personal, philosophy, writers on 5 January 2008 with 1 comment

This past week I met a buddhist writer and the founder of a meditation center, named James Baraz. We talked casually about writing with all the distractions from modern technology and he encouraged me to come to a talk he was giving at the NY Insight Center about “Awakening Joy” a course that he […]

Things

In Events, culture on 26 November 2007 with no comments

This weekend, December 1st and 2nd, is the Small Press Book Fair at “The New York Center for Independent Publishing” (formerly the Small Press Center). I went a few years back and hope to go again. Whether I go or not depends on my inherent weekend laziness and how much time I spend with a […]

The Hipster Extravaganza

In Events, Music, culture on 5 October 2007 with no comments

The live artist I tend to enjoy the most are the ones that I happen to stumble upon, somehow, accidentally. Maybe while wandering into a bar for a drink (how I first heard Ryan Scott or Melody Gardot) or as opening acts for other bands.
On Wednesday my friend and I went to Peter Hadar’s “Hipster […]

Gladwell Talks: Go

In Events, books on 2 October 2007 with 1 comment

The Newman Lecture: Malcolm Gladwel is the author of two bestsellers: The Tipping Point, which revolutionized our understanding of how and why change happens; and Blink, which analyzes snap judgments and explores the power of successful decision-making. Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker. In 2005, Time named him one of its 100 […]

Fall Things

In Events, books on 29 August 2007 with no comments

Brooklyn Book Festival: I’d actually intended to go last year , but I believe I was stuck in the suck hole that is Bay Ridge and waiting for someone to come with me. This year I might just go it alone. The line up includes poet Staceyann Chin, Hip writer John Leland, comedian Michael Ian […]