Silver bells Silver bells It’s Christmas time in the city…. Oops! Sorry. I tend to spontaneously burst into seasonal song these days. Not out on the streets or anything. Just at home when puttering about, folding items to be taken to Housing Works or trying to remember where I put those holiday cards I got [...]

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“It’s May! It’s May! That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray” Well, except you, dear readers because I present to you some Greater Gotham May Highlights! And to continue my show tune theme, let’s not “Start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.” No, let’s instead start at towards the end [...]

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New York Magazine has a preview of the Costume Institute’s upcoming “Superheroes” exhibit (opens next week). Now, this could be a really interesting show. It all depends on how they the (increasingly inadequate) space for the concepts and themes they are trying to exhibit. The last show I went to at the Costume Institute was [...]

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Forgive the extended absence, all. The post cruise fogginess (that no one warned me about, by the by) took a while to clear and then, just as things began to clear, I was struck down (and laid prone) by an incredibly bout of sciatica. I will not regale with with the details and descriptions of [...]

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It’s a holiday weekend coming up and you know what that means? Even more time to do even more stuff. Never fear for Gotham is, as usual, awash in activities to entertain, educate and delight you and yours. Books, books and more books, baby! Taschen Warehouse sale is running January 18-20 at their locations worldwide [...]

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