Events for all 5 senses! Food tasting in Chinatown this weekend! Ear and eye-full October 19th: new work by Bjorn Copeland (Black Dice) + live music by Lansing-Dreiden at Hiro. Do you and your cardiovascular self a favor, don’t miss the explosive duo Matt & Kim October 27th at the experimental studio/project space 3rd Ward [...]
Although this post is coming to you a day late, it’s still a good idea to catch the remaining 4 scheduled episodes of “Eyes on the Prize“, PBS’s 1987 award winning documentary on the Civil Rights movement in American. The 14 hr series has not aired since 1993 because of an uncensored word appearing in [...]
Twisting it up, a new pre-midterm elections ABC 9/11 mini-series fictionalizes events around 9/11 scheduled to air Sunday and Monday night, but not with out criticism.
[...] All mini-series Photoshop the facts. “The Path to 9/11” is not a documentary, or even a docu-drama; it is a fictionalized account of what took place. It relies on [...]
Greenwich Village Society for Historic PreservationEMERGENCY hearing is tomorrow!! Thursday, Sept 7th
Come testify in support of assigning landmark status to Frank Stella’s old studio/Turn-of-the-century Carriage & Horse Mart please show up at the location below with 12 copies of your testimony (sample letter).
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September 7th at [...]
Come and Take It, 1835 Republic of Texas, Gonzales Flag, this and more at Flags of the Republic of Texas
It turns out that back in 1823, when Texas belonged to Mexico, Mexico opened Texas to foreign settlers in order to increase the population of Tejas. Immigrants could become Mexican citizen with offers for cheap [...]
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Just got a ridiculous email this morning from a company called Slick Times out of Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The email suggest we should all go to Mexico and demand the Mexican government give us all the same that the US government gives to it’s illegal immigrants. It’s funny to note that [...]
Michael Kimmelman, in a recent article in the New York Times, discusses the issues surrounding two major American museums possessing looted art from Italy in their collection. Both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are negotiating the terms in which they will be allowed to continue to show the [...]
