staunchly A Latin job for 2010-11 has opened at Regis in New York City – a program which should be (should not is) the best Latin program in any American high school. The school’s history has been shaped by the formative deed which started it – a large, anonymous gift which paid all the school’s expenses […]
Category Archives: New York City
For the Latinists.
18-Jun-10Punjab Love Festival.
14-Jun-10order Gabapentin online uk Greetings from Richmond Hill, Queens, home of the 2010 Punjab Love Festival. This poster in a shopfront on Jamaica Avenue caught my eye, but the festival – which offered “free food, free game, unconditional love and more” – had already passed.
Lead Us Not Into Penn Station.
11-Jun-10Lots of reading getting done here. One book I read last week was Jill Jonnes’ Conquering Gotham, about the construction of Penn Station (ugh these titles; can’t we just call it “The Building of Penn Station”?). The book makes a good read for the NYC enthusiast; part of the pleasure is deepening one’s knowledge of […]
Kerouac, the unideal husband.
11-Jun-10Kerouac’s first marriage: he married a girl and moved out to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and worked at his father-in-law’s ball-bearings factory. It lasted two months: At home Edie and her mother, anxious to see Jack as a competent husband, were alarmed that he spent most of his free time in the bathroom, reading Shakespeare and […]
For the Regians…
27-Apr-10A piece in the Wall Street Journal about debaters, featuring Eric Dimichele.
Easter Services.
09-Apr-10I came down to the City to be with my fellow believers for Easter. I spent Holy Thursday with the Episcopalians, which was beautiful as always, and then Good Friday and the Vigil at a parish in Murray Hill. The experience of worship during Easter season in the City is unusual. The Churches are full, […]
The Most Famous Fish in NYC?
10-Mar-10I sold a photo to NPR on Friday – twenty-five bucks. They needed a shot of Buttkiss (I still shudder to see it spelled that way) for their story on the Richmond Hill ichthyological landmark. Human beings get only fifteen minutes, but this fish is into his sixth month of fame. And a piece came […]
In a city, where do you get your manure?
04-Mar-10An interesting post from Jacob Morrow on urban farming: Two sections of these books particular caught my attention. One (from The Winter Harvest Handbook) is about the tradition of small, but intensely cultivated, market gardens, which were commonplace in nineteenth-century Paris, although they all but disappeared in the twentieth century. This type of gardening (la culture maraicher), […]
Suzanne Vega has only one New York show scheduled on her tour supporting the new acoustic effort Suzanne Vega Close-Up, the late January show at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room. It sold out easily, and others may be added, but there is a slight melancholy about the fact, indicative of the city’s lethargy in celebrating its […]
The Unusualness of Staten Island.
03-Feb-10I spent two days on Staten Island earlier this week. I was hoping I would find the place as interesting as I did when I lived there, and I was not disappointed. Many of the things I revisited made just as great an impression on me as ever. The Dump is as omnipresent at the […]