Category Archives: NEW YORK

15 SECONDS WITH ANDY WARHOL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 26, 2023 – 7:17 am

Andy Warhol quote: “What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink […]

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Banksy?s Jean-Michel Basquiat

June 19, 2023 – 4:37 pm

Banksy’s Basquiat being stop and searched (2017) on show in Glasgow. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. All the cops working the dope streets of the lower East Side knew Jean-Michel and that he carried money with him. He was a steady source of cash and a golden goose For the 9th precinct. Unlike Michael Stewart […]

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Not on Fifth Avenue

June 10, 2023 – 6:37 pm

Two weeks before the 2016 Iowa Caucuses Donald Trump regaled the crowd by saying, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Since the January 6, 2020 MAGA insurrection and his ouster from the White House the leader of the GOP […]

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The Nearest Planet

June 8, 2023 – 9:44 am

Back in 2019 I met my friend’s son in the Meat Packing District. Alfred was a business graduate of Princeton. Magna Cum Laude. His parents considered him genius at 21. His father wanted me to introduce him to a big-time investment banker to whom I sold diamonds back in the days of plenty. It was […]

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BET ON CRAZY 4 / FIRST SALE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 31, 2023 – 1:39 pm

The day after Super Bowl XXIV, I paid off two months?rent with my winnings. Everyone in the exchange was richer thanks to betting the other way from Manny. They ribbed him relentlessly for having lost yet another bet on the NFL championship game. I said nothing since Manny had confided that he had bet on the […]

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