Big Box Bookstores Closing

I found out from a post on Facebook that a well known Barnes & Noble across from the Lincoln Center in New York is closing.  It suddenly reminded me of the film, You Got Mail when Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan), owner of the Shop Around The Corner  tried to fight off Fox Books, a large discount bookstore owned by Joe Fox (Tom Hanks). I remember staring down Central Square in Cambridge, MA  in the late 1990s,...

How a Pastor Can Rule the World

If you are a hip-hop head or into music, you might remember Nas’s remake of “If I Ruled The World (Imagine That).” Pastor Jones of a puny congregation in Gainesville, Fl has ruled the world this past week.  I find it quite incredulous that the entire world has tuned him in and instead of tuning him out because of the potential  burning of the Quran. It is amazing that the possibility has stirred...

You /0.00/Starting with Nothing.

Starting over from nothing.

New Film on Jean-Michel Basquiat, July 21, NYC

I have always been fascinated with the life of Basquiat.  Sadly, like many great artists he had a troubled life, created phenomenal work, and died young.   Artist and filmmaker Tamra Davis is premiering a new film called JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD in New York on July 21 at the Film Forum which will run to August 3rd.  Check it out. Did you like this? Share it or...

Visit a museum this summer!

Visit a museum this summer!