Category Archives: NEW YORK

40th Anniversery of Allman Brothers’ AT FILLMORE EAST

March 12, 2011 – 7:05 pm

AT FILLMORE EAST was released in the summer of 1971. The epic concert was recorded at the famed rock hall on March 12. The album was available with conventional 2-channel stereo and 4-channel quadraphonic mixes. Duane Allman’s slide guitar was emulated by millions of guitarists worshiping the slide work oN WHIPPING POST. Tonight I’m going […]

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OPEN CITY MAGAZINE RIP (1991-2011)

March 7, 2011 – 12:27 pm

Open City Magazine issued its first edition in 1991. The editors promoted known and unknown writers. Adrian Dannett and Joanna Yaz ( see foto ) published my short story WHY I MISS JUNKIES in 2002 as well as several other pieces of my semi-fiction. OPEN CITY MAGAZINE will be missed by its readers and contributors, […]

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Help Spiderman

March 5, 2011 – 3:07 pm

New York City avoided the bronze medal as the 4rd Most Polluted City in America. The Gold Medalist was Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. Both cities’ pollution ratings were most assuredly determined by their proximity to the rancid state of New Jersey. The vista out my window in Fort Greene is filled by a […]

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THE LOUDNESS OF LIFE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 27, 2011 – 10:02 pm

Not all intellectuals have been exiled by the exorbitant rents from Manhattan. The other evening editors, writers, publishers, agents, actors, painters, and pundits gathered at a West Village triplex of a right-wing journalist recently returned from the Libyan revolution. Nobody was famous, although several of the attendees had come close. The first arrivals congregated in […]

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Story of the Week / Mr Bellers Neighborhood

February 15, 2011 – 8:26 am

As published in Mr Beller’s Neighborhood 1981 by peter nolan smith 02/14/2011 Neighborhood: East Village, West Village Everyone on the scene thought operating an after-hours club on top of a 14th Street theater was a good idea and Arthur Weinstein opened the Jefferson on New Year’s Eve 1980. During the week the loft was home […]

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