Tag Archives: The Arts
The High Bridge Beats the High Line for History
There’s a new alternative venue for strolling, people-watching and getting your “history buzz”–the High Bridge connecting Upper Manhattan to the Bronx has been re-opened for the first time in over 40 years! What a nice jaunt it is to cross … Continue reading
A Year Later–and Yes, We’re Still Here
More than a year after nature’s damaging blow to the peninsula, I continue my peripatetic existence, traveling back and forth between New York’s upstate and downstate counties. Peripatetic is really the right word, hearkening back to the wandering teachers … Continue reading
Rock-Rock Rockaway Bard
As these beastly hot days of summer arrive, some residents have decided to walk away– for now, or forever. Rent a U-Haul and drag it all behind. Others have sought out counselors from Project Hope. Many of us talk incessantly … Continue reading
“We Used to Vacation” and Other Lost Summer Rituals
I headed into the kitchen for my morning coffee, and flicked on the radio. A song recorded by The Cold War Kids was on, called We Used to Vacation. A great lost summer ritual. In the past week, I’ve been … Continue reading
Avoid the Lines, Buy Images of America: Rockaway Beach, Early!
So you’d like to be one of the first to own a signed copy of Images of America: Rockaway Beach, my new book published on June 4 by Arcadia. The kickoff event was at Ciro’s Pastry Shop, 415 Beach 129 Street … Continue reading
Inspired at the Laundromat
There they go again! The unsung elves of our cherished local Rockaway Artists’Alliance have toiled to create inspiring public art in some of the most unexpected places. Discovering this kind of public art adds to the offbeat joy of living … Continue reading
In Praise of WFUV
One of my favorite cause buttons carries a simple message: “The best things in life aren’t things.” A fixture of my life these days is non-commercial radio and television, where I now get much of my news, entertainment and creative … Continue reading
Finding Fannie Holland
I’ve received the good news that Images of America: Rockaway Beach will be published on June 4, 2012. I’m planning two upcoming slide show events in Belle Harbor to preview some photos from the book, one which will feature coffee and pastry on a Sunday … Continue reading
Inspired by “The Search for Harmony Bay”
I submitted the final content for my upcoming book to Arcadia Publishing on the second day of 2012, and it was quite a relief! Time to post an entry on Oy Vey Rockaway. The outstanding visual artists of Rockaway never … Continue reading
Drum Roll, Please…
After three years of thinking about it, and six months after contracting to produce it, I am close to finished with writing Images of America: Rockaway Beach, to be published by Arcadia Publishing Company in June, 2012. The cover mock-up has … Continue reading
Oy Vey Rockaway 