19: Village Scandal, tiny boutique 21: Sniff Aromatherapy, custom-mixed bath oils 23: Village Mingala, Burmese 31: Hebrew Actors Union, founded in 1899 to protect performers in the then-thriving Yiddish theater district. 33: East Village Chiropractic. Note plaque on building honoring reside...
Louisiana 1927 (with Members of the New York Philharmonic) ▶ Amazing Grace - Live At Central Park, New York / 2011 ▶ Amazing Grace - Live At Central Park, New York / 2011 ▶ Concerto in B minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 104: II. Adagio, ma non troppo ▶ Concerto in B...
8, 1951 edition of The New York Times. Note that this clip also features the funeral notice for New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross. * * * Name Your Fears Irish writer and critic Ernest Boyd was for a time connected to the consular service and probably had a pretty good sense of ...
In Carthage, Mo., former New York-based writer Nick Dunne and his glamorous wife Amy present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public; when Amy goes missing on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance; the resulting police pressure and...
In New York politics, there’s always some kind of calamity or scandal. What made 2020 so unusual was that several once-in-a-generation crises – the deadly spread of COVID-19, the economic shutdown, the uproar over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a chaotic electi...
Bill Dalzell of Salem, MA, a longtime friend of mine who read this post, reminded me of one of his and also my favorite things to do in New York City in the past: take the Staten Island Ferry to Staten Island and back. My friend Bill used to live in Manhattan, but no longer doe...
The true story of basketball insider Christian Dawkins, who hustled the FBI in a scandal that threatened to take down the NCAA. Released: 2020 Directed by: Pat Kondelis 6 What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Diana Ross 24 votes What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali is a ...
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender), he also finds unexpected kindness from another, as he strugg...
In New York politics, there’s always some kind of calamity or scandal. What made 2020 so unusual was that several once-in-a-generation crises – the deadly spread of COVID-19, the economic shutdown, the uproar over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a chaotic ...
Federal prosecutors have dropped bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin.