by David | Jan 21, 2014 | culture, photo, urbanism
I read in the New Yorker (well, on the New Yorker’s Goings On About Town app) that Giuseppe Penone had installed three life-size and lifelike bronze trees in Madison Square Park and balanced some boulders up in them. The most understated and ecologically minded...
by David | Jan 6, 2014 | culture, photo
If you haven’t been lately, it’s about time you visited Gallery Kayafas. It’s about time that you visited because the current shows on view are closing in a bit more than a week. Also, both of the major shows are about time, even more so than the way...
by David | Sep 4, 2013 | culture, eating
As a child in New York City, I thought that Chinese New Year and the Feast of San Gennaro were among the High Holy Days probably until junior high school. I may have been a little slow, or maybe just an early adopter of multiculturalism, but I ate well at every...
by David | Aug 27, 2013 | culture, urbanism
The older you get The more floaters you will see Feast of Saint Lucy Opthamologist For some, Santa Lucia Or Warby Parker
by David | Jun 19, 2013 | culture
Today is Juneteenth, a day commemorating the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865 (yes, the Emancipation Proclamation was years earlier, but Texas was not about to take orders from Lincoln at that point) that is now observed in some fashion in 42 states....
by David | Jun 14, 2013 | culture
I’m writing this on April 16th, the day after the bombings, but I’m setting it to publish 60 days later, on June 14. There’s a lot of great reporting today (April) about how nice everyone is being and how many relief efforts are underway. One thing I...
