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Hoppe on the Thometz’s
Curt Hoppe premiered his Downtown Portraits this week at Howl! Gallery in the East Village and Bernarducci Gallery in Chelsea culminating nine years of work on 24 painstakingly, even painful, painted...
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The cat came back
I was bored enough browsing through the Museum of American Folk Art’s shop yesterday to pick up Writers and their Cats, a Chronicle tchotchke book sporting a debonair Truman Capote embracing a dashing...
View ArticleSpring-Early Summer 1976
“He governed his conduct by considerations removed from the obvious, by incredible assumptions, which rendered his logic impenetrable to any reasonable person.” Conrad on Almayer. “The Seven Deadly...
View ArticleFrom the Journals: Summer, 1975: In the Ruins of New York.
(photo: Duncan Hannah) Preface. When working Savran’s Books on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank Campus in 1973 visiting poetess Patti Smith suggests, “You should go to New York, they’d like you...
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Sundays at the Triple Nickel
Sunday afternoons Margie and Rudel play just above my head, 3-F, in our garden. Sometimes we’ll hang on our stoop with the local historians and tell about the way it should be. When this bad time pass...
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Garatas de Papel – Paper Girls
The Livros de Sacanagem of Carlos Zéfiro. “The sun, the scanty clothing, the mixing of races, the taste of sin, all have contributed to making Brazil the most erotic land on the planet. here we show...
View ArticleAn Educational Haven at Harlem’s Little Black Book Shop turned B&B
An Educational Haven at Harlem’s Little Black Book Shop turned B&B
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Journals: 1970-1971
Highway 7. From Minnetonka to Hopkins. My Favorite Things: Hopkins/Minneapolis: rock and roll magazines, used records, Evergreen Review, Grove Press, New Directions, Ramparts, Berkeley Barb, East...
View ArticleThe Nate Lacy All Stars with John Smith on guitar
Sept. 5th, 2020. New York is Not Dead. 3 to 7 pm, Library Park, 155th betw. St. Nick’s and Edgecombe. Harlem Late Night Jazz presents the house band at Lenox Lounge, St. Nick’s Pub, Showman’s and...
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