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Buffalo and Bus Rage

Americas August 23, 2019

The other day, we spent a night in downtown Buffalo. Perched on the eastern edge of Lake Erie, Buffalo is the second largest city...

Upstate Idyll

Americas August 20, 2019

For the past few days we’ve been staying at a farmhouse in Upstate New York near Lake Ontario. It’s green, humid and hot, surrounded...

Radio War Nerd Invades Brooklyn

Americas February 24, 2021

It’s one week until THE EVENT and I’m so excited I’m hyperventilating. To celebrate its 200th episode, Radio War Nerd is having a live...

Moonstruck in Brooklyn Heights

Americas August 4, 2019

Last week we joined our friends Jan and Alyssa for dinner and a twilight stroll around the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, directly across the...

Land of Morning Calm on West 32nd

Americas February 24, 2021

Someday I'd like to visit Korea. Its ancient culture has a particular air of mystique that is captured in its beautiful pottery, romantic landscapes...

The Day I Did American Democracy

Americas July 26, 2019

I’m a fan of Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist candidate for the US presidency in 2020. So, when I got an email from his...

Fricking Art Central!

Americas February 24, 2021

One of the great New York traditions that I wouldn’t have seen except for our friends Michael and Jenny is Shakespeare in the Park,...

Selby Junior’s Sunset Park

Americas July 14, 2019

Where we’re living now is not that rough, but you can sort of tell that it used to be. It’s the place Herbert Selby...

Let them Eat Nothing

Americas July 11, 2019

Finding myself in Manhattan yesterday, I decided to make a pilgrimage of three blocks to the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park, between the...

Met Cloisters and the Pennsylvania Kid

Americas July 6, 2019

One of New York’s big tourist attractions is the Metropolitan Museum of Art , which is actually three different museums. Most people know the...

Bullied at the Border

Americas June 6, 2019

‘We made it! I don't know how,’ I said as we stepped into John F. Kennedy airport. ‘Sheer necessity,’ John said. He looked stoically...

Pre-Colombian Art: Were they, In Fact, Having a Laugh?

Americas May 23, 2019

Andean America, before Christopher Colombus ‘sailed the ocean blue’ was host to a wide variety of peoples with distinctive religious beliefs, cultures and artistic...

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