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A Final Lesson From the Grave of GOURMET
Today’s Op-Ed page of The New York Times included a piece about the passing of Gourmet magazine by Christopher Kimball, who runs the competing publication, Chef’s Magazine. Kimball’s title (“Gourmet to All That”) tipped...Missing the Editor
In my piece last July about Michael Massing’s New York Review article, “The News About the Internet,” I tried to focus on two significant losses that we have had to endure in the world the Internet has made. One of these was a consequence...Remembering a Significant Promoter (before the Age of Self-promotion)
Yesterday The New York Times published an obituary by Bruce Weber for Norman Seaman. This name is unlikely to be familiar to most readers, particularly those outside New York City; but it is important to remember him. In an age in which the Internet...
U.S. Military Changes Policy And Provides New Detainee Names to Red Cross
News reports in the United States are quoting unnamed military officials as saying the Pentagon has speeded up its process of notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of terrorism suspects held at special military detention...Whom Do Our Representatives Represent?
The Senate vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has left me thinking once again about what we expect of those who are supposed to represent us in the Congress. I was certainly not surprised at the bias of the vote along Party...Yet Another Loss
This may well be the most morbid week I have encountered since I started blogging. I just discovered (due to sluggishness on the part of The New York Times in releasing the story) that this past Monday, when I was writing up my reaction to reading...Remembering Merce Cunningham
The summer of 1968 was not the first time I had seen the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. However, it was the first time I did any serious writing about Cunningham’s approach to choreography and John Cage’s approach to the composition and...Early Cronkite
I really have to thank Dave Itzkoff for his post to the New York Times ArtsBeat blog for directing me to an exemplary specimen of writing that also happens to have historical interest. All it took was his first sentence to send me chasing down the...
