Category Archives: europe

The Comfort Of A Siesta

March 24, 2013 – 5:44 pm

Last week I worked every day 8 to 5 at my cousin’s metal shop. I cut bronze with a band saw, picked up steel from a Newtown Creek foundry, installed bathroom fixtures at a West 14th Street luxury condo, and delivered decorative storage bins to the patio of a 5th Avenue penthouse. The work was [...]

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Neigh For Horses

February 24, 2013 – 2:17 pm

Horses have been worshipped by Man, but also hunted as a food source since the Paleolithic Era. Upon my arrival in Paris I was surprised by the number of butchers offering ‘cheval’, which has been a part of the French culinary history since the Revolution. The Haute Bourgeoisie regarded horse as a meal for the [...]

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THE BOUQUET OF RUINS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 26, 2013 – 7:22 pm

Dec 1982 Some cities are best defined by songs such as APRIL IN PARIS or AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, but Hamburg defied music, as the weather off the North Sea besieged the harbor city with endless rain, cold, and darkness. Every day the night conquered a few more minutes of light and our once-popular club [...]

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Fantico Im Deutschland

January 25, 2013 – 9:04 pm

Go see the show. Jorge wears g-strings.

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THE DEATH OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

November 28, 2012 – 10:10 am

Last December I attended the opening of the “Dream’ exhibition at Luxembourg’s Mudam Museum. Madame l’Ambassador bailed from the event early for a formal dinner with diplomats. I was not invited for supper. “It’s a diplomatic thingee.” Madame l’Ambassador explained, as we walked through a thickening fog to the waiting Jaguar. “I understand.” A writer-in-residence [...]

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