Notes from the margins
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 (a day late): 70′s NY – Fun City to Blackout
From CRX Community Forum If you have 40 odd minutes to kill, this is a fascinating BBC documentary on New [...]
Sunday Videos: New York in the 70′s and 80′s
In the interest of revivifying my fading memory I’ve been searching through Youtube for scenes of the New York I [...]
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.
