Monday, April 25, 2011

Beef on weck at a Montreal style Jewish deli in Brooklyn?

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Beef on weck (pronounced "wick") is a sandwich I got to know early in my career, when I was making frequent trips to Buffalo to...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

e.e. cummings on the unimaginable.

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i thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

J.S. Bach, "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" ("O Sacred Head Sore Wounded") from the St. Matthew Passion

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This performance is by the Holland Boys' Choir and sung in Dutch. Thanks to Ikje86 for the clip. (For a modern, secular song to this t...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Kris Kristofferson, "Sunday Morning Coming Down"

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Kris doing one of my favorite songs of his at Paradiso in 2008. Thanks to Jacques van de Wal for the clip.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

An important fossil discovery: Liaoconodon hui, a Mesozoic mammal with a transitional middle ear.

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In the clip above, Jin Meng, curator of fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, describes how the well-preserved fossil o...

Heather Quinlan surveys the New York accent.

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Here's the trailer for friend and Brooklyn Heights Blog colleague Heather Quinlan's forthcoming (and you can play a part in bring...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Egyptian Blogger Gets Three Year Sentence for Criticizing Military

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Just before Hosni Mubarak's capitulation, I wondered what kind of government might succeed his. This story from today's New York T...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

East-West IPA Smackdown: Brooklyn "East India" vs. Sierra Nevada "Torpedo"

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I've had Brooklyn Brewery's East India Pale Ale before, and published my tasting notes on it here . Seeing it on the shelf at Key Fo...

Sidney Lumet

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  So, why do I have to keep posting about people who have just died? Easy. I'm at that age where the people who made my world, i.e. thos...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

The Times' Clyde Haberman on chronicling the Lion's Head.

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Clyde Haberman, who took a drink or two at 59 Christopher Street back in the day (I never had the pleasure of meeting him), had a piece in y...

Gabriel Fauré, Le jardin de Dolly, by Susan and Sarah Wang

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Hearing this lovely piece for four-handed piano on WQXR sent me searching for a video; the best I could find, and I think it's superb,...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Update: Phils release Castillo; but another ex-Met looms as a threat.

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My fear that Luis Castillo, having been released by the Mets and picked up by division rivals the Phillies, would come back to haunt the Me...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" Part I by QUILF Wind Quintet

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> The calendar tells me that spring has been here for a week, but the chilly wind outside denies it. I'm hoping Stravinsky's pie...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Remembering Lanford Wilson

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I got to know Lanford Wilson, who died yesterday at 73 , in the late 1980s when we both were taking the waters at the Lion's Head . He w...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011

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The video above consists of scenes from the screen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1967), starring Ms. Taylor and...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Castillo goes to Phils.

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Luis Castillo, released by the Mets, has been picked up by the Phillies . Will he go from catcalls at Citi Field to cheers at Citizens Bank ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Black 47, "Funky Céilí"

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Black 47 , featuring my old Bells of Hell friend Larry Kirwan , with some great soprano sax by Geoffrey Blythe (formerly of Dexys Midnight...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Thinking about tsunamis.

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A month ago I was asked to write a "lenten meditation" for a booklet of "daily devotions" for the season published by my...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Mets' angel, Doris from Rego Park

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I've avoided posting about the Mets this year, for obvious reasons that unfortunately inspired this Manhattan Mini Storage subway post...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Some music for International Women's Day: Marshall Chapman and Sue Foley

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In celebration of International Women's Day, here are selections from two of my favorite women singers. I've had the pleasure of ...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Thank you, Hank!

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A year ago last November I was in Tampa, and one of my friends said, "You've got to see the house Derek Jeter is building on Davis ...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011

Johnny Preston, 1939-2011

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Johnny Preston had one of the great pop novelty hits of the late 1950s-early '60s in "Running Bear" (thanks to rameyblue fo...
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Friday, March 04, 2011

Leonard Bernstein: Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, 2nd movement.

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I think of Leonard Bernstein principally as a composer and conductor rather than a pianist, though his performance here, in my opinion, is...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Dermot McEvoy on the Paul Schiffman memorial.

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Yesterday evening there was a memorial gathering for Paul Schiffman at the Kettle of Fish , the bar that now occupies the space that former...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Two Pennsylvania beers: Yuengling and Lionshead

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I decided to do a comparison tasting of these two beers because (1) they're both from my native state and (2) they're both available...

Hepzibah surveys the scene.

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Nothing on Pierrepont Place escapes her penetrating gaze.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Meat in vats: first step toward celebrity cannibalism?

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This item on MSNBC cites a "yuck factor" as the principal impediment to getting people to eat meat cultured in vitro from cells ...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

S.S. United States saved from the blowtorch, for now.

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This is old news, and I've been meaning to post about it for about two weeks, but life has been hectic. Those two jauntily raked red, wh...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Egypt: what kind of democracy?

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Yesterday's New York Times op-ed page includes a piece by Essam El-Errian, a member of the Guidance Council of Egypt's Muslim Broth...
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 ...