A Movie Screening
Brooklyn: Among the Ruins
By award-winning filmmaker Suzanne Wasserman.
This short film introduces audiences to Brooklyn-born Paul
Kronenberg. Paul is a 60 year-old subway buff who built a life-size
replica of a 1930s motorman’s subway cab in his tiny bedroom in
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Paul will be there to introduce and answer
questions about the film about the experience […]

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The Upper East Side can be bor-ing on a Monday night. But if you’re already there, why not do some karaoke?

Young Lucas at Iggy’s, circa 2003
I had my very first, life-changing karaoke experience at Iggy’s on 75th & 2nd one snowy night in 2003. Iggy’s is a cut above many other NYC karaoke establishments—features include […]

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While I’m blogging…
In the last couple of weeks my loving look back to the early nineties has sometimes brought a tear (of joy, of course) to my eye. Witness the journey:
- a few weeks ago, Renda brought her old cds to the office. I filled in some of the gaps in my nineties music collection, […]

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After a leisurely 90 minute lunch at home (cabbage, hummus, and tomato sandwich), I returned for 45 more minutes of meditative news-viewing. I had just started a new Facebook scrabble game (in which I opened with a bingo, “UNEATEN”), and they’re dismissing us. For eight years! I’m already thinking of volunteering, sometime when I have […]

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10 Jay Street is haunted by ghosts with pacifiers. (Party photo by Kirk Peterkin at pbase.com)

The ninth floor circa 2008.

On Tuesday afternoon, vibrations and general construction noise disrupted our otherwise pleasant workday. Where were the noises coming from? What was vibrating? Were we safe? Would the ceiling come crashing down? The Great Flood of 2007 […]

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I was hard at work at the studio one day when Renda’s uniquely polyregional accent popped into my ears. “And if I’m at a party? And suddenly people start playing video games? I’ll leave.” She paused, as if in thought. “I’ll punch ‘em in the face!”
Unlike some people in the studio, however, I’m not opposed […]

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Note: This post was written in early December, but lingered in drafts for a month. Read it anyway! I revisit Philadelphia! PS: Check out this crazy Mummer’s Day parade video featuring my old crew dancing off global warming!
Train travel has never been so fast, so glamorous. Last weekend I took Amtrak for the very first […]

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There’s a baseball team in Florida, and they’ve got some image problems. There’s a guy who hurls baseball bats at umpires, and another fellow who has had multiple restraining orders placed upon him by the wife he keeps threatening to kill. They are the only franchise in the majors to have never made it to […]

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TV Bliss: Gossip girl at 9. Season 4 of Project Runway premieres at 10.
Why does this constitute television history? Because Ms. Jillian Lewis is one of the few fashion students I was actually friends with at Parsons. After losing my job in front of a camera crew (Jane folded on The Fashionista Diaries) and […]

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Buy this week’s Time Out New York to spot my bffs Lucas and Finessa on page 24 in the “cozy parties” section of Party bars! They’re totally canoodling in front of the fireplace. I arrived to Black Rabbit too late to partake in the party pics, but we all got free drink chips. Yay.

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