Last Sunday, April 4, Spring came to New York City. Sixty-two degrees it was, and calm in the bright sun of a cloudless sky. The city had been waiting.
The winter seemed unusually brutal and long. As late as March we got mugged by the winds Chicago-style – sucker-punched from the northeast, a roundhouse kick to [...]
New York, at the moment (Mon, April 13, 2009)
Jeff Mills, Techno Musician/Futurist
Jeff Mills, one of Detroit’s finest techno DJs, will be spinning at Santos Party House in New York City on Wednesday, September 3. In 2004, I interviewed Mills upon the release of his “Exhibitionist” CD/DVD. Here’s how it all went down.
Run of the Mills
Techno giant Jeff Mills puts the [...]
Bird is the Word (December 1, 2005)
Bird is the Word
Walking to the train this morning, I spied a curious bird perched on one of the iron tree-guards. It was not a pigeon nor a sparrow. I have no words to name it as I’m not an ornithologist, even though The Girlfriend and I did attend an Audubon Society charity banquet last [...]
Life, Kid, Suck the Box: The World Cup, viewed in New York
Life, Kid, Suck the Box
New York must be, all things considered, the greatest place on Earth to watch the World Cup outside the host country. The wretched performance of the U.S. team doesn’t even matter because anyone who cares at all about the sport doesn’t watch them anyway. When everyone’s from everywhere, there’s lift from [...]
