Tag Archives: New York

The emptiness of kings

On the nights I race my single-speed black bicycle down Broadway from 41st to East 17th, I rule New York. Not all at once. Not for long. This is a reign at risk with every squeaking spin of my wheels. But for sweet stretches of asphalt that sometimes last just shy of forever, I am made [...]
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Photos: The Light of Meat Sprinkling a Perpetual Path

More photos grabbed with my phone as New York rolled me around. First, and a first for me, an embedded flickr slide show, right after this likely obnoxious ad: Then all of the photos individually:
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Music Review: Nathan Gaunt at the National Underground

Who: Nathan Gaunt, an Australian musician. What: Show at the National Underground. When: Er, he played in August, and I’m just now getting around to posting this. So much for deadlines. Impressions: Nathan Gaunt sings with a smooth, bravely itinerant voice that flies across the landscape of your hearing like a light-trailing hawk painting sky art. His [...]
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Picket line outside Chinatown restaurant

A representative of the restaurant workers union, Tony Tsai, said that the demonstration was a response to punitive actions taken against employees following Golden Bridge Restaurant’s official conversion to a union shop. That’s all I got. I know, I know. Where’s the response from the owner? Where are the details of the alleged mistreatment? Where’s the [...]
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Looking for home on a Chinatown wall

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Escaping the Screen

There was one purpose for my journey to the Brooklyn Flea Market: to escape my computer screen. But breaking the grip of a MacBook Pro’s 2-D, 17″ window onto the world takes a lot more than hauling a Web worker’s chair-sculpted ass up and out the door. That glowing rectangle is not just a thing [...]
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