Here we are, January 1, 2009, and as I look out the window at the snowy trees up Cypress, it's nice to take some time to reflect on the year 2008 that has sped by. January I started 2008 on the West Coast, and then flew back to NYC where I plunged back into work and fun times with friends. Mount...

The last thing we do every year is our annual Best Of list. It's not only our way of reviewing the most gratifying sounds of the past 12 months, but we inevitably always get turned on to something that slipped past our radar. By gathering favorite album and live show suggestions from our staff, sele...

This Is What You Wanted, America... This is what you get Here's some of the article from the Catholic News Agency . Try not to puke too much. Oh... and don't expect to hear a helluva lot of protest from the USCCB (maybe a few have their boyfriends marching). Obama ‘proud’ to have homosexual band...

The 2008 Park Slope 100: 100 stories, 100 ways of looking at the world, 100 inspiring people, places and things. The list is in alphabetical order. There are no repeats from last year. There are always serious omissions. I left two slots open for latecomers. The link above is the list's very own blo...

NewYorkology contributor Anna Links has been sizing up some of the newer tours on offer in NYC, including the Staten Island pizza tour, and most recently, a Photo Walk-about. Her report: My digital camera is well used and certainly worse for wear. It’s met many pavements and spilled beverages ...

Halloween Parade NYC 2008, originally uploaded by lardfr1. Sorry I've been away so long...between being a playwright, having the stomach flu, and participating in the Halloween Parade in the Village this year, it's been hard to blog.I'm not in this......

It was hard to hate the suburbs this weekend.  Halloween was lovely: a small and manageable parade "downtown" and user friendly trick or treating in the neighborhood (with full size candy bars the norm for treats!).  The Boy was hepped up on sugar; The Girl was largely obliviou...

Good morning: for the third straight All Hallow's Even, I present the Human Dickwad (click image). Your costume sucks the balls on his chin, in comparison. Also, here's the best Halloween-themed ad I've seen since I started this site. No, I'm not going to the NYC parade; I went once years ago, and t...

2008 was chock full of awesome. Month by month recap: January - New Years, Resolutions, Signed Up For The Avon Walk, Punk Rock Farewell February - Race Up Boston Place, Joey Franks, Valentine's Day in NYC, Six Month Anniversary March - First Trip To Jersey, New Camera, Epic Jury Duty, Florida, Asgar...

Summer in the city. You’re supposed to just looove it. “Oh, we live in Brooklyn and have a backyard—let’s have a barbecue!� “Oh, cool—count us in!� “Yummy, $5 iced coffee!� Slurp. “Lookee, the girls are naked!� Great, right? Actually, not so much. For some residents, summer i...