I usually hate street fairs. If I need a pair of socks, I’ll go to a store. I don’t like to eat the food at them as it looks…a little unclean. But there are some good street fairs. They’re the ones that keep out the sock merchants and the gyro places and the like. I’ve [...]
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10th Street – A good street for a good street fair
May 30, 2008Bad Apple in the Big Apple
May 25, 2008We’ve all seen the cool Ipod ads from Apple. You know the ones: the dancing silhouettes. Very funky, right? Nah. It’s not even close. They are as stodgy and as corporate as an ad for a Ford truck. At least, that’s what came to mind when I was wandering through a very, very cool area [...]
Tribeca Film Festival…In The East Village
May 1, 2008On Saturday, I did some wandering around the East Village area and, while on my way toward Union Square, ran into the Tribeca Film Festival. (Simple NYC geography lesson: Tribeca lies about 20 blocks south of Union Square which is a long, long ways in NYC.) Well, it is part of the Festival, but you [...]
Tompkins Square Park Protest
April 29, 2008I was recently down in the Alphabet City area and wandered through Tompkins Square Park. While there, I saw a protest in progress at the southern part of the park. The protest seemed centered around a bunch of mailing boxes with slogans. Forgive me, but I couldn’t figure it out. Some of the slogans were [...]
Pearl Theatre Company and the LES Handprints of Fame
March 29, 2008St. Mark’s Place (aka, 8th Street between 3rd Avenue and Avenue A) has some of the most interesting places in the Lower East Side. I really enjoy it down there. Recently, I was walking past a place I’ve seen a number of times, Pearl Theatre, and looked down and saw that they’ve got a sort of Mann’s [...]
