Category Archives: NEW YORK

THE GHOST OF MOJO by Peter Nolan Smith

July 26, 2012 – 10:08 am

I don’t know how many people I’ve met in my life. I’ve never tried to count them, but they must number in the tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands since I worked 20 years in nightclubs in New York, LA, London, Paris, Nice, and Hamburg and have also circumnavigated the globe over twenty […]

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Hamptons Traffic Festival

July 26, 2012 – 9:52 am

The distance from Manhattan to the Hamptons is roughly 100 miles. Most weekenders own Mercedes, BMWs, Landrovers, and other luxury capable of speeds in excess of 120 mph, but the trip can take anywhere from 2.5 to 4 hours. While Suffolk County and local police enforce speed limits on the LIE and Sunrise Highway with […]

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212-982-4052

July 21, 2012 – 10:09 am

Former guitarist for the Ghosts and present strummer for the Bowerytones Jahn Xavier posted a New York telephone number on Facebook. 212-982-4052. I can’t believe I remember that phone number, but there it is. Anybody out there know where that bell rang? Within two minutes a woman called Dusty recognized the number to CBGB’s telephone […]

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THE LOUDNESS OF LIFE by Peter Nolan Smith

July 19, 2012 – 10:16 pm

Not all intellectuals have been exiled from Manhattan by the exorbitant rents and last spring editors, writers, publishers, agents, actors, painters, and pundits gathered at a West Village triplex to celebrate a radical journalist’s safe return from the Libyan revolution. Anne’s tales of the rebels’ fight against Khadaffi’s regime had appeared in the Wall Street […]

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Damita of CBGBs

July 16, 2012 – 6:42 am

CBGBs was the la Scala of the East Village during the 1970s. Debby Harry was our Maria Callas, but not all the action was on stage. The lives of the musicians and regulars intertwined for minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. None of pretended that we were family, but I regard my friends and […]

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