Oh, and speaking of punk being dead , check out the brand spankin' new "virtual tour" of late, lamented CBGB . As mawkishly gimmicky as it is, I have to say that it's fairly well done.  I've swiped this, by the way, from the excellent This Ain't the Summer of Love blo...

As I pushed against the opposing tide down Broadway yesterday afternoon on my way home from work, I passed an individual who could have been my doppelganger. Despite graying at the temples and clearly expanding around the middle, this gent clearly harbored a fondness for the same age-old sartorial a...

  Even before our economy plunged into the toilet, I found myself buying fewer and fewer compact discs. Not to sound melodramatic, but I just can't afford to be blithely spending my money on music these days, especially given the limited amount of listening time my current lifestyle afford...

Look, as a big, recovering comics geek, I'm all for the success of the "Watchmen" movie. I'm dubious if they'll actually do the original Alan Moore classic justice, but hopes and expectations are high, and the advanced buzz has been positive. That said, at what point does "...

At my office, there is a series of small conference rooms all inexplicably named after live concert venues and night clubs here in the city. It's not at all out of the ordinary to get an e-mail saying "noon conference in the Roxy" or "bi-annual re-org meeting in the Palladium.&quo...

TITLE: "Tupelo" ARTIST: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ALBUM: Live Seeds RELEASE: DATE: 1995 A common complaint among tinnitus-sufferers like myself is that the irritating sensation (in my case, a ceaseless ringing in my right ear) seems much worse in the morning just as you're waking u...

I read today on Curbed that the 'iconic' DKNY painting that looms over the corner of Broadway at Houston Street is soon to be painted over. While I normally get bent out of shape about these things, I can't really say that this one bothers me that much. I mean, it's a cool enough mur...

  It's happening in May. I won't be going, of course, because I have two kids and no money, but Killing Joke, Devo & The Jesus Lizard on the same stage? Are you kidding? Holy crap!...

As is quite often the case, Peggy glanced in the fridge this evening around 8:30 pm to find that the kids had managed to entirely deplete our milk supply. Dutifully, I slipped on my Chuck Taylors, grabbed my jacket and headed out to our corner Korean deli for a late evening errand I've run a tho...

I've never been a dog person. I've never been a cat person either, for that matter. In fact, I'm basically just not really a pet person (and don't get me started on plants). I mean, dogs can be perfectly nice and all, but they can also be smelly, messy, loud, obnoxious and often dang...