Susan Atkins, the member of the Manson family who stabbed the pregnant Sharon Tate, and smeared the word “pig” in Tate’s blood on the murder scene wall, recently made an appeal for a compassionate release from prison. For those not up to speed on her health, Atkins is suffering from the final stages of […]
I went on a river tour this weekend in Chicago. I listened to the names of the architects, learned the differences between art deco, post modern, neoclassical, buildings referential to their surroundings and those not, anecdotes of moguls who wanted to sit higher and see farther than their competition. Yet in the end, all that […]
Postscripts, follow-ups, and a few odds and ends I’ve wanted to share for a while:
1. Nostalgia or counternostalgia? The Jon Kessler Experience
VBS.tv has a little four-part Art Talk! interview with a friend of mine, Jon Kessler, who set up studio space out in Williamsburg in 1980. He took an entire factory building for $150 a […]
Hang around New York long enough — 15 or 16 minutes, say — and you’ll hear someone complain about how nothing’s the way it used to be: that all the soulful grit’s gone, not to mention the middle class, and left in its place is something that feels, day by day, a little more like […]
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,” my friend Dave wrote at the head of his birthday invitation. Karaoke, wilds of Brooklyn, at a place that was decidedly un-hip. The Carriage House. Sounded more like a place to get married — and how wild could the wilds of Brooklyn be if we were still talking Park […]