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Giants of Syracuse

Americas
Last year John and I spent a few weeks near Siracusa, the birthplace of Archimedes and site of a massive stone amphitheater where the...
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Buffalo and Bus Rage

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

Americas
    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...
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Radio War Nerd Invades Brooklyn

Americas
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...
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Moonstruck in Brooklyn Heights

Americas
Last week we joined our friends Jan and Alyssa for dinner and a twilight stroll around the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, directly across the...
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Land of Morning Calm on West 32nd

Americas
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...
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The Day I Did American Democracy

Americas
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...
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Fricking Art Central!

Americas
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,...
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Selby Junior’s Sunset Park

Americas
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...
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Let them Eat Nothing

Americas
Finding myself in Manhattan yesterday, I decided to make a pilgrimage of three blocks to the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park, between the...
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Met Cloisters and the Pennsylvania Kid

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

Americas
‘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...
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