Robot Dreams

Pablo Berger’s "Robot Dreams" might be created via simple animation in terms of the details of the anthropomorphic characters, but it doesn’t lack detail within the environment the film is set in. The opening scene alone showcases Dog’s loneliness as he heats up Mac and Cheese for dinner and sits down on his sofa. Meanwhile, in the background, we see a couple (a giraffe and a hippo) sitting down in their apartment opposite to watch a sitcom to finish their dinner. This occurs before Dog notic...

On Peter Pan

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Film Review: Amityville Emanuelle (dir by Louis DeStafano)

[link VIDEO] Amityville Emanuelle is the latest film about the dumbass Amityville Haunting. In order to watch any of the many films about the supposed haunted house in Amityville, New York, you need to be aware of two real-life events. In 1974, a 23 year-old junkie named Ronald DeFeo, Jr. gunned down his entire family in their Amityville home.  DeFeo first claimed that unknown gunmen had killed his family while he was out.  He then changed his story and said that he killed h...

The Battle over Street Play in New York City (1910-1930)

"Where there are kids, there is play." Iona Opie "The setting of boundaries is always a political act." Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder "We begin with the child when he is three years old. As soon as he begins to think he gets a little flag put in his hand."  Dr Robert LEY, leader of Nazi Labor Front. As an urban game designer, and an immigrant to the US, I find it particularly interesting to understand the relationship between cultures and public space: the implicit and expli...

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

"He entered the park at the North Gate and swallowed mouthfuls of the heavy shade that curtained its arch. He walked into the shadow of a lamp-post that lay on the path like a spear. It pierced him like a spear." The above is from the beginning of the second chapter of Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, a brief and brilliant novel set in late-Prohibition New York; the arch and lamp-post mentioned belong to Washington Square Park. I remember, in my twenties, reading this sentence for the f...

'In 24 Hours': Track 61 and Grand Central's M42 | CNN Travel

VideoSearch Menu In 24 HoursSecrets of New York: Track 61 and Grand Central's M42Margaret Heidenry, for CNN • Updated 7th December 2015FacebookTwitterEmail (CNN) — An unmarked, nondescript door off Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan leads down to a shadowy train tunnel with a storied past. It once covertly carried a United States president from Grand Central Terminal to the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Follow the tunnel today, and you'll find it still leads to the railroad car used by POTUS number...

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New York Consolidated Laws, Military Law - MIL §237 | NY State Senate

New York Consolidated Laws, Military Law Section 237 Free passage through toll-gates and tunnels and over toll-bridges and ferries ...

Very Real, and Very Haunting - Reporting on a Man Who Set Himself on Fire - The New York Times

‘Very Real, and Very Haunting’: Reporting on a Man Who Set Himself on FireA makeshift memorial for David Buckel at the site of his suicide in Prospect Park.Christopher Lee for The New York Times On a beautiful Saturday in April, I got an alarming news alert on my phone: A man had died after setting himself on fire in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. His name was David Buckel. He was a prominent L.G.B.T. rights lawyer who had become an advocate for the environment.When I came to work after the weeken...

In a Border Town - Flame in the Cloud at Midnight - poems - colors - moon

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Rally of the Birds - and New Yorker weekly caption contest - and other New Yorker clips - 4 May 2020 edition

Endings question the legitimacy of storytelling outrage

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The outdoor opera Sweet Land summons ghost of Los Angeles history

Burnt Orange heresy

Note that "burnt orange" could be a way to describe sepia, as in historic films from the 1930’s and before. -zas

Like a Borges character

Giuliani as Jules Winnfield

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Cartoonist obituary

Ronan Farrow writes book about conspiracy to hide sexual abusers

Cats on Broadway

Tide and Time - in Search of Lost Boats - and on James Joyce

Son of Friedman

Keeping the Lifelines open - NYTimes

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Picture experimental - Finding Stonewall

Michael Cohen - propagandist and propaganda victim

Minding their Manners - bookstore book