Writer David France was on (click here) Boston public radio WBUR yesterday, talking about his story, in last month’s New York Magazine, about the fall of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. France’s interview is the first normal radio piece about the subject — “normal” referring to the quaint practice of a host asking [...]
Read MoreI dropped by the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, held at NYC’s Museum of Natural History over the weekend. The fest began decades ago, to showcase moving-image offerings by anthropologists — materials that have been coming out since stuff like Man of Aran first appeared in the 1930s. Back then, the medium was 35 [...]
Read MoreTo get to Carrollton, the suburb just north of Dallas where my sister lives, you have to drive through mean little Farmers Branch. Which is yet another burb, lately in the news because the town has been trying to keep landlords from renting apartments to “illegal aliens.” I passed through Irving, Texas too – [...]
Read MoreI’m still out of town and busy, so for several more days there’ll be no wordy blogging.
Meanwhile, check out David France’s piece in the latest issue of New York Magazine, “Saving Justin Berry” for — finally! — some actual reporting by someone other than I, about Kurt Eichenwald (click here)
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(The original entry was updated on October 20)
If you’ve listened to AM or FM since October 19 and you’re visiting this site, it probably means you heard NPR’s “All Things Considered” about the strange fate of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. The program presented his claim, made publicly for the first time, that [...]
It’s been awhile since I hit the sex-panic button on this blog … been playing hooky from newspapers and the internet cave to hit sidewalks and neighborhoods during September’s Indian summer. As usual, though, much is happening back in Terror & Loathing land — a place densely populated with out-of-control minors, who appear mostly to [...]
Read More“It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there… And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”
So said Bill O’Reilly last week of Sylvia’s, a venerable soul-food restaurant in Harlem. He’d eaten there after being invited by Al Sharpton. Later, [...]
Yom Kippur is past and now we are into the five days’ preparation for Sukkot. It’s a harvest fest that also commemorates the 40 years of wandering post-Exodus, with the Jews living in temporary huts in the Sinai while God waited for everyone to die who’d picked up slave mentalities in Egypt.
Nice story, [...]
I’ve been busy this week! Sorry for not posting till now.
Story in the NY Times today about yuppie males in the city who want pix taken of themselves proposing marriage to their girlfriends in Soho. They pay $500 for this service — to people like an ex-photojournalist featured in the article. The Times published [...]
Read MoreFor three or four years after 9/11/2001, working-class New York abounded with a new take on old Christian symbols. From the tourist shops of Canal Street to street vendor tables near Chambers, and on to shlock stores in the Bronx’s Marble Hill and Elmhurst in Queens — then to restaurant and barber shop exteriors [...]
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