Video Sunday: Taxi Driver
I recently watched ‘Taxi Driver’ again for the first time in years. I was fascinated by the portrait of darkness [...]
How Bad was it when NY was bad? Bad!
Looking over this footage, it’s not hard to understand why many people in the ’70s – both in NY and [...]
Looking back: New York in the 70′s
What always interested me about NY when I first came here was how, like London, it was essentially a [...]
Sunday Video: The Early Years of Kiss
As a kid in the 70′s, KISS was all around us in the culture, even as far away as hinterland [...]
Gil Scott Heron RIP
I discovered Gil Scott Heron the summer of 1991, after I returned to Montreal following five riotous months in NYC. [...]
Video Sunday: The South Bronx
Photo by straatis I’ve been to the South Bronx, exactly once, in 1991. In those days I used to walk [...]
Escape From New York
I watched John Carpenter’s 1981 ‘Escape From New York’ last week for the first time in many years, possibly since [...]
Video Sunday: Jerry Rio and the Hawaii Kai
Jerry Rio visits the Hawaii Kai, or what’s left of it. Interviews people who remember the Hawaii Kai in all [...]
The Warriors
Deleted opening scene from The Warriors: The Warriors gather force on the Coney Island boardwalk. I saw the Warriors, the [...]
Video of the Week: KISS!! (Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder)
I hadn’t thought about Kiss for years. Until I saw this interview. Like most of the kids of my generation, [...]
Pilgrims: A Novel
'Pilgrims' is set in 1991 New York. The background is New York at the end of the First Gulf War, with the crack epidemic raging across the city, and the beginning of the East Village's gentrification. The first chapter can be seen in Sensitive Skin Magazine.
