and then it hits you! What a great advert. BAM is the acronym for Brooklyn Academy of Music which is much more than that: theatre, movies, events, quite a roaster of choices. Saw Jonathan Pryce in The Caretaker written by Harold Pinter. But it is their ad that always draws me in first. BAM, and …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Rose
There is lay. Alone. At 12:30 on a weekday, on a bench in the 4th Street Subway station. Red, wrapped in cellophane and abandoned. For whom was it intended? Did that person not mean enough so that one could just walk off without it? When did he/she remember that they had forgotten something? Could they …
Cinco de Mayo
There was no posting for 5 May, as all of the City was celebrating. The Spanish speaking population is large enough that everyone now joins in, including yours truly. And you know how fluent my Espanol is!
Essentially Ellington 2012
Wow. You have to see this for yourself one day. The final concert of the three top placing bands from American high schools that compete playing Duke Ellington music. It is sponsored by Lincoln Center and overseen by Wynton Marsalis. More than 1700 high school bands are part of the EE network. 111 bands sent …
Figurines
They appear unexpectedly: the proverbial cigar store Indian. I will add them to the post as I happen upon them.
1st Stop Over the Bridge
Fascinating that at the first subway stop over a bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn, there are shops where the signage has no English is to be seen. If you don’t read Hebrew, then you don’t know what they are selling.