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At Moma

14-Jan-08

On a damp and gray January afternoon I met Robo at MOMA on 53rd and 5th. It was my first visit to the newly-designed space since its renovation a few years ago. Free passes came my way from a good neighbor.  The new museum is magnificent. The collection includes 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, [...]

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Patti Smith at The Beacon

17-Sep-07

It was July 1998, the first time I had seen Patti Smith perform live. That one show locked me into the live power of her music. It was the kind of experience you want everyone you know to feel as well, akin to a born again Christian who needs to validate a recent conversion. Her [...]

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Glowing Glowing Gone

10-Jul-02

I ran into Walt Clyde Frazier the other day. Well…maybe it was the other way around. Walt (for those of you who don’t follow basketball) was an all-star guard for the New York Knicks during the late sixties and seventies. Now, he does Knick color commentary on cable TV alongside veteran play-by-play man, Marv Albert. [...]

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