HHTF Humanities Series: Ken Swift (Pt 1) from Clyde Valentin on Vimeo. The nice folks at the Hip-hop Theater Festival have released online a video of the really interesting conversation between b-boy pioneer Ken Swift and hip-hop historian Joe Schloss that took place a few months ago at NYU. I learned a lot from attending…
Category: New York
Swinging to the Moonshiners of New Orleans at Lincoln Center (video)
Tonight the incredible Moonshiners of New Orleans tore it up for an appreciative, if sweaty, crowd of dancers at Midsummer Nights Swing at Lincoln Center. Such an amazing band! And their first time playing outside of New Orleans! Other Moonshiners videos: a slower, latin-inflected number Moonshiners with vocalist singing French song Lindy hoppers on Damrosch…
1stFans Ice Cream Social on the Roof of Brooklyn Museum (pics)
I love being a 1stFan of the Brooklyn Museum. It's always interesting getting a personal, curated view of what's happening at one of my favorite cultural institutions in the city. And at $25 a year, it's a steal! On Saturday, 1stFans got a very special treat: an ice cream social on the roof of the…
Birthday Festivities Continued: Smoked Montreal Meat & The Big Apple for Dessert
The festivities continued on my actual birthday, Saturday, July 3. It began with an incredible lunch at the Mile End Delicatessan in Boerum Hil, Brooklyn. I've been wanting to go to this place since it opened a few months ago. Passing it by on my way home from Quaker Meeting, there were always long lines…
Liberty Belle July 4th Party: not letting the jerks spoil your fun
This post was going to be about the Liberty Belle Extravaganza that was held last night on the rooftop of the Empire Hotel in the Upper Westside. Specifically, I was going to write some screed about enforcing dress codes, lax hotel security staff, and inflated drink prices. But from my own experience, I know how…
Quakers March for Justice & Equality in Pride Parade! (video)
I was proud to march with a group of about a dozen New York Quakers in the Gay Pride Parade yesterday in Manhattan, along with hundreds of other groups and tens of thousands of onlookers. It was a glorious, if hot, day in the city, and everyone seemed to be in good spirits. Local Quakers…
Syncopated Sweethearts performing at Fram (video)
Here's those four cuties Eve, Gina, Lisa and Shana, aka the "Syncopated Sweethearts", performing a solo jazz & charleston routine at Frim Fram last week. So cute! It was somewhat bittersweet since Lisa C. is moving this week to live in New Orleans! Lisa is so much fun to dance with and to watch dance…
Photo Shoot: Me and the Bike on the Manhattan Bridge (pics)
For the past three years, I've been biking across the Manhattan Bridge to get my job — enjoying the view, the breeze off the river, and zooming down the incline. I've been wanting to get dressed up and take a bunch of pics of myself with my bike on the bridge for awhile, and finally…
Comparison of iPhone 1 and iPhone 4 Cameras (pic)
Here's a quick comparison I did of the cameras in the 1st generation iPhone and the 4th generation. Both photos are unmodified, other than that they were re-sized and put together in Photoshop. The main difference you aren't seeing is the size of the images, since the 1st gen has only a 2 megapixel camera,…
Winners of the 2010 Mermaid Parade Announced: Brooklyn Bombshells Win Again!
The Chief Justice of the 2010 Coney Island Mermaid Parade has just announced the winners in the various divisions of the Mermaid Parade. I’m excited to announce that my group the Brooklyn Bombshell Revue has again won first place in the Marching Group division! The full results after the jump…. Winners of the…