Occupy Wall Street Protesters in Soho (Broadway at Houston, October 8, 2011) Since September 17th a few hundred people have been occupying Zuccotti Park (aka…
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New videos from Occupy Wall Street (October 8)
Occupy Wall Street – No Comment Art Show Opening There are two more videos I shot and roughly assembled and uploaded to YouTube. Both are…
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Music Monday: “A Change Is Gonna Come” – Sam Cooke
Anonymous: Justice is coming March from Washington Square to Liberty Square (October 8) In the spirit of these days of Occupy Together in all its…
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More photos from Occupy Wall Street (October 8)
Always a beautiful sight: Veteran For PeaceWashington Square Park Last night I uploaded quite a few more photos from October 8, the 22nd day of…
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Water Taxi to Brooklyn Bridge – In A Brooklyn Minute
Luci, Ove, Judith, Derrick, Scott This week’s video was supposed to be about the special meeting with my German friends Tobias and Ove on the…
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‘Occupy Wall Street’ and ‘We are the 99 Percent’ and my hope…
Zuccotti Park On October 5th, I joined tens of thousands of people and went to the financial district of Manhattan to say “enough is enough”.…
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We’ve had a few very special and wonderful days while Judith visited from Berlin, Tobe from Portland and Ove from Hamburg. The latter two came…
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Red Hook – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 74)
Red Hook is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, where I went twice this past week: for the wonderful wedding of Karen and Kyle at St. John’s…
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Music Monday: Little Dragon – “Ritual Union”
Little Dragon Recently several people had recommended Swedish (Gothenburg) band Little Dragon fronted by Yukimi Nagano. And I was delighted to discover their album Ritual…
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Prospect Park – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 73)
Prospect Park, the 585-acre Brooklyn park designed by Central Park creators Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is my sanctuary. It’s one of my favorite…
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Music Monday: Travis – “Side” + “Slide Show” (post 9/11)
Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11. After Scott and I had spent the anniversary away from NYC for the first time last year, we…
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Music Monday: “I’m A Goner” – Matt + Kim, Soulja Boy and Andrew W.K.
The Matt + Kim, Soulja Boy and Andrew W.K. collaboration “I’m A Goner” is the latest song from Converse Shoes. It was recorded in the…
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Music Monday: “Morgens Immer Müde” – Laing + Trude Herr
Trude Herr I just couldn’t agree more with the popular song “Morgens immer müde” (Always tired in the mornings) by the Berlin band Laing –…
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I’m neither from Georgia, nor am I anybody’s son. But for some reason I just can’t get enough of the song “Georgia” performed by Band…
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Asterix Recommends: “Little Numbers” by BOY
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one, but my brother Asterix still has lots of great music recommendations up his sleeve. For this rather…
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MusicMonday: Favorite Songs of 2nd 1/4 of 2011
My favorite songs from the second quarter of 2011. Go (feat. Karen O.) – Santigold Two Against One – Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi Is…
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