Saturday, January 29, 2011

Looking back to the childhood of the universe.

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The images above, starting on the left and rotating to the bottom right, are successive magnifications of the same patch of sky, made using ...
Friday, January 28, 2011

More winter scenes from Brooklyn Heights.

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The storm that started Wednesday and ended early Thursday added another blanket to what had already accumulated and not melted in earlier wa...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

My state senator's message to Jets fans.

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I got to know Daniel Squadron (photo above) early in his campaign to become state senator from my district, and was able in a small way to ...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Palin free February? You betcha!

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Wikimedia Commons Dana Milbank has made the challenge . I'll gladly take it up. After all, I've only posted about her three times...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Paul Schiffman

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In my e-mail inbox this morning was the following message: "Paul Schiffman died last night in his apartment." I got to know Paul i...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

News of the very old and the old: dinosaurs and wine

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PBS Newshour This has been a productive time for paleontologists. From Argentina, a dinosaur hot spot in recent years, comes news of what...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Martin Luther King, Jr. on hatred and love.

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Wikimedia Commons From a sermon delivered at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on November 17, 1957: There’s anothe...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Nostalgic about the '70s? This National Airlines ad may cure it...

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...or, it may not. You'd have to be well over thirty to remember National Airlines (not to be confused with a cargo and charter carrier...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Margaret Whiting: 1924-2011

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Margaret Whiting, who died Monday at the age of 86, was one of the great song stylists of her generation. The clip above is of her renditi...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Chilly scenes of winter in Brooklyn.

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Statue of Civil War General Gouverneur Kemble Warren , Grand Army Plaza. A white pigeon finds itself almost perfectly camouflaged on a Par...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Brooklyn's Winter Ale

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Yesterday evening, I tasted this offering from Brooklyn Brewery . My notes: Color: deep reddish amber. Head: full and creamy, but collap...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

The Jets do not let me down.

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Wikimedia Commons Jets 17, Colts 16! Gang Green pulled it off on a final seconds field goal following a perfectly executed sideline pass...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Phil Ochs, "There but for Fortune".

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Back in 1978, when I was (as I often did in those times) spending an evening at the Bells of Hell , I slipped a quarter into the jukebox and...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

Da Bearss let me down.

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wikimedia commons Unfortunately, after taking the field at Lambeau yesterday, the Chicago Bears behaved more like pussycats than the beas...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Chuck Berry at Newport, 1958

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Chuck Berry doing "Sweet Little Sixteen" at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. Unlike the hit record version, this features a cla...

Brian Williams tells all you need know about Brooklyn.

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I'm arranging to have alerts of flash artisinal markets sent to my mobile phone. Thanks to Brooklyn Heights Blog reader "Monty...
Saturday, January 01, 2011

Scenes from a New Year's Day walk.

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Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn. Brooklyn Bridge. Squirrel, City Hall Park, Manhattan. New One World Trade Center, under construction. S...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Bulls fend off Tigers, Holtz has successful first season.

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The South Florida Bulls took an early lead, then withstood a fourth quarter rally by the favored Clemson Tigers to win the Meineke Car Care ...

Three variations on "Hesitation Blues": Janis Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and the Holy Modal Rounders

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Here's Janis Joplin's take on a hoary pop standard, accompanied by Jorma Kaukonen on guitar (he also did a version of the song as ...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Arcade Fire: "Born on a Train"

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My daughter turned me on to this group, and this song, which was easy, considering my love of trains . Since Arcade Fire are Canadian, I th...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Enrico Caruso, "Cantique de Noel" ("O Holy Night")

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The legendary tenor sings my second most loved carol (for my favorite, see here ). The quality of this 1916 recording amazes me. Warmest ...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

While we're on the subject of the moon: here's Billie Holiday

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The future Lady in Satin at age twenty, as recorded in 1935, backed by Benny Goodman on clarinet, Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Ben Webster on ...

Lunar eclipse

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A photo of last night's lunar eclipse by my Brooklyn Heights Blog colleague Marc Hermann.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Thine alabaster cities gleam...

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Seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Empire State Building and others in midtown Manhattan are illuminated by brilliant sunlight. (Click on i...

Brilliance of the Seas: another cruise ship calamity.

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy I've never sailed on a large cruise ship, and never will. I ...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Goldilocks, red dwarfs, and arsenic: are we any closer to finding extraterrestrial life?

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http://www.freshwallpapers.info Three recent news stories have increased the buzz about the likelihood of there being extraterrestrial li...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

Can Terry Collins turn the Mets around?

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It's a tough call. He did manage a turn-around for the Angels in the late 1990s, taking them from a losing team to one that finished se...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Bulls crush 'Canes in OT; Boise State unhorsed.

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My alma mater has a way of pleasantly surprising me on the gridiron, as the South Florida Bulls did Saturday with their 23-20 overtime vict...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving is a contested holiday. Enjoy it anyway.

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First off, let's talk turkey. Actually, let's discuss whether we should be eating turkey at all. Back in the early 1980s, Calvin T...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

College football update: Harvard wins The Game, but not the Ivy; Sunshine State stays in top 25.

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Once again, I missed The Game. Only effete Eastern liberal elitists like me call it The Game. (Wait a minute: I've usually thought of...