40 Years of Art History in 65 Boxes of Transparencies

from The NY Times He Captured Modern Art, and Now Is Letting It Go By DAVID W. DUNLAP Help yourself to D. James Dee’s luscious, sprawling photographic archive of the modern New York art scene. He has about 250,000 color transparencies and slides, ranging in size from...

Maxwell’s (Hoboken) Gone

from The New York Times End for Bar That Altered Music Scene, and Hoboken Bryan Thomas for The New York Times By ANDY NEWMAN HOBOKEN, N.J. — The bar seemed like a ripe candidate for a makeover. Grimy and decrepit, it was open only for the hours around shift change at...

Richard Pryor: OMIT THE LOGIC

from The LA Times Review: ‘Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic’ a keen look at gifted comic By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic Richard Pryor died in 2005 at the age of 65 from a heart attack related to multiple sclerosis. The unexpected thing,...

The Sanitation Gestapo

from The New York Observer Court Also Thinks $2,000 Fine for Plucking a Used TV Antenna From the Trash is Ridiculous By Alyssa Berlin One man’s simple search for the perfect art project turned into a battle with New York City Courts. This week, a Manhattan appeals...