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The Insurrection Backfire
In 2017, a photo emerged of Al Franken on a 2006 USO tour pretending to feel up a napping Playboy model, Leeann Tweeden. They were…
The Vaccine Rollout
In mid-December Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine began getting shot into the arms of New York City residents. The Moderna vaccine, which was actually developed over a…
I Love Fado
It’s a curious thing. I can almost remember the very moment I got “into music”. My parents always had records playing on our Motorola cabinet…
The Best Commencement Speech Ever
I’ve followed Victor Wooten‘s career for years, since he began working with the improbably banjo-based jazz fusion band, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. There are…
The Disappearing Brooklyn Stoop
Brownstoner posted a terrific, in-depth article about something topically relevant to this site. But it’s also something that I’ve noticed all over NYC since the early…
What will $9 million get me in Brooklyn?
What’s the most expensive/least affordable city in America? Most people would answer San Francisco because of all the tech money or Honolulu because, well, who…
Fully Vaccinated, Now What?
Today was a momentous one in my personal Fasti Antiates Maiores. It’s the day I am, according to the CDC, officially vaccinated against COVID-19 and…
Vaccine Passport
With vaccine harder to find in NYC than a good hush puppy, it was New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo who spiked the ball by reporting…