Rhapsody In Blue

Matt Nicholas

Five days a week, Matt Nichols treats straphangers on the N/R/Q/W platform at 42nd Street to beautiful, if somewhat unfamiliar, sounds. The subway guitarist sets up shop in front of a trash can, playing his acoustic electric, 16-string Yamaha. A 2003 graduate of Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory, Nichols lives in Astoria. He plays gigs and does [...]

Construction at Bellevue

A view of the construction going on at Bellevue.

Hand-picked Garbage for Sale

Garbage = Art= $50?
A new York city artist, Justin Gignac (http://www.justingignac.com/61323/New-York-City-Garbage) has been selling the city’s garbage since 2001. He hand-picks garbage and arranges in Lucite cubes that are signed, numbered, and dated. Today, over 1,200 cubes have been sold to over 25 countries.
Check out flickr’s NYC Garbage’s photostream(http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycgarbage/), in which some NYC garbage cubes [...]

Prophet for Profit, Part III

            Determined to hear my fortune read, I ventured out to the Lower East Side in search of a psychic on a recent Wednesday afternoon. I had spotted one across from my window seat at a restaurant on East 9th Street the weekend prior. Though I know hundreds of psychics read palms between the Upper [...]

The Todd P Show – An Introduction

Authenticity is a great word, not least because I feel smart when using it. There is something impressive but elegant about its sound, something about its multiplicity of vowels or the hiss of its c. What makes authenticity such a great word, however, is the depth of its meaning. Referring to some sort of virtuous [...]

A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life

Below is a New York Times review on the recently opened African Burial Ground Visitor Center (http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_Main.htm). I visited the site today, and it was a truly fascinating experience. Visit sometime soon to check it out!!

February 26, 2010
Museum Review | African Burial Ground Visitor Center
A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Cemeteries [...]