Monthly Archives: November 2014

$1.19 Steak At Tad’s

November 18, 2014 – 10:37 pm

I ate my first steak at Tad’s. 1964. Someplace near Penn Station $1.19 I made five times that as a newspaper boy. We were not wage slaves in the age of Tad’s Steakhouse.

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All The Leaves Are Brown

November 18, 2014 – 8:52 pm

Sunday morning I took this photo from the top floor of the Fort Greene Observatory. The sky was gray and the Mamas and Papas’ CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ rang in my ears. I was 2900 miles from the West Coast and rain sloshed on the sidewalk. I went to work in wet gear. The streets of Manhattan […]

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Le Livre de Philippe Waty

November 15, 2014 – 9:11 pm

The Steamin’ Musselmen or les Muselmans Fumant were an artistic troupe de force in Paris through the 1980s and 1990s. Philippe Waty co-founded the group and his vibrant iconography adorned the walls of the abandoned city quarters. Philippe painted with the spirit of Chester Hines’s Black America matched by his collaborators; Fabrice Langlade, Tristam de […]

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The Last Of Millions

November 11, 2014 – 8:55 pm

George Lawrence Price (1892 – 1918) The last to fall in the Great War. A Canadian from Falmouth, Nova Scotia.

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MY LIFE by Big Albert Harlow

November 10, 2014 – 8:53 pm

MY LIFE Sometimes I wonder what happened to my youth As I look in the mirror and see the truth My heart becomes heavy as I see the grey hair Time has marched on and it doesn’t seem fair It seemed like only yesterday I was young and life was free I had no idea […]

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