Category Archives: NEW YORK

Mark Kamins RIP

February 17, 2013 – 5:59 pm

I was stunned to hear that Mark Kamins had passed away in Guadalajara, Mexico. The legendary DJ had discovered Madonna at Danceteria and spun discs all around the world. The famed singer told Billboard, “I’m very sorry to hear about Marks death. I haven’t seen him for years but if it weren’t for him, I […]

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Snow Ball

February 7, 2013 – 8:54 pm

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. – Doug Larson I have thrown snowballs during each snowfall in New York this year. There have been two. My age is only a date. In my head I’m 15. Winter, spring, summer or fall.

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Snow Coming

February 7, 2013 – 7:49 pm

Meteorolgists are predicting a monster snowstorm for the East Coast with up to two feet of accumulation in the Boston area. New York is supposed to get a foot. Looking out from the Fort Greene Observatory, the skies are gray and a touch of the window says it’s cold out there. Perfect conditions for a […]

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Barney Johnson LIVING FOREVER

January 30, 2013 – 10:10 pm

Last night I attended a wake for a fellow atheist. The service was at a Ukrainian Funeral Home in the East Village. Barney and I had met in 1978. He was my boss at Hurrah, a punk disco on West 62nd Street. He survived the era of errors to be a proudly gay man with […]

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A STEP INTO TOMORROW by Peter Nolan Smith

January 25, 2013 – 8:31 pm

Back in the 1970s rebellious young people fled their hometowns to find solace with like kinds in the East Village. The last decade had depopulated the Lower East Side and we found new lives in the forlorn tenements. In 1976 I escaped Boston in a stolen car and my girlfriend from West Virginia joined me […]

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