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- misc ·
Binge Watching in Corona Times
- By steve·
- March 4, 2021 8:40 am·

- health ·
Fully Vaccinated, Now What?
- By steve·
- February 24, 2021 3:49 pm·

- crime ·
The Insurrection Backfire
- By steve·
- February 14, 2021 11:52 pm·

- health ·
Vaccine Passport
- By steve·
- January 27, 2021 6:04 am·

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…
- By steve·
- February 14, 2021 11:52 pm·

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…
- By steve·
- January 20, 2021 8:43 am·

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…
- By steve·
- August 2, 2020 8:25 pm·

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…
- By steve·
- October 15, 2019 2:34 pm·

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…
- By steve·
- July 28, 2019 2:47 pm·

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…
- By steve·
- June 18, 2019 4:35 pm·

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…
- By steve·
- February 24, 2021 3:49 pm·

Vaccine Passport
With vaccine harder to find in NYC than a good hush puppy, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo spiked the ball by reporting that as many…
- By steve·
- January 27, 2021 6:04 am·