Archive for June, 2009
The deadly 50s
By Tom Teicholz at 30 June, 2009, 4:45 pm
I have a strong memory of my father being freaked out during his entire fifth decade — He told me that during one’s fifties the chances of having a life-ending heart attack were great — and that if you managed to get through your fifties — even if you had a heart attack you stood [...]
Read More >>Helen Mirren in Phedre - NT Live
By Tom Teicholz at 26 June, 2009, 4:31 pm
Last night I participated in a grand experiment. The National Theater in London did its first live broadcast to movie theaters all around the world of its acclaimed production of Phedre starring Helen Mirren.
I will say that it was a triumph on almost every level — including the least obvious (and most desired) that it [...]
Grumpy Old men
By Tom Teicholz at 25 June, 2009, 4:03 pm
Sometimes one has — I mean I have — an idea percolating in my head and someone beats me to the punch. This happened to me recently when Greg Rodriguez had an Op_ed in the LA Times about Von Brunn, the 88 year old who fired on the US Holocaust museum and the guard there.
What [...]
Beyond the Pale
By Tom Teicholz at 23 June, 2009, 12:51 pm
BEYOND THE PALE, a neo-Klezmer Post-balkan jump jive band — there is no good description, has a new album POSTCARDS that is a lot of fun - although the tunes straddle a range of emotions and musical styles in the end making it their own. They recently played at Theodore Bikel’s 85th Birthday celebration at [...]
Read More >>Cool art installation
By Tom Teicholz at 23 June, 2009, 12:40 pm
Katie Klapper who seems to have very interesting art and design clients (she’s the publicist who suggested I write about Judith Hoffman and Szalon) just sent me some info on a cool art installation at Fresno States New Henry Madden Library by artist Susan Narduli.
But this is not just an image. It’s a giant video [...]
Read More >>The great poppyseed strudel competition
By Tom Teicholz at 16 June, 2009, 2:41 pm
Finding strudel is not easy as it once was, and although occasionally one can find apple or cherry strudel, or even cheese, you have to already been initiated into the habit of poppyseed strudel to even ask for it.
I headed up to the Hungarian pastry Shop on 110th and Amsterdam and ordered a slice that [...]
more pics of NY: downtown becomes centra; the WTC seems to have moved further north and east
By Tom Teicholz at 16 June, 2009, 2:21 pm
Here’s a shot of the new Highline — which I took from a terrace at the downtown Standard Hotel — and let me say that corner of New York is still hopping — not sure how much biz the retail shops are doing but with the Chelsea markets and the Gansevoort Hotel, the Standard, and [...]
Read More >>the 12 step Buddhist
By Tom Teicholz at 16 June, 2009, 2:05 pm
The gym that I work out at (when I work out) is often visited by persons who are in the process of detox or recovery, former strung out dudes and junkie girls.
This morning the girl on the machine next to me was busy reading a book called “The 12 step Buddhist” — can’t say why [...]
NY pic: statue outside of St. John The Divine
By Tom Teicholz at 15 June, 2009, 12:51 pm
This statue post-dates my time at Columbia and my many hours logged across the street at the Hungarian Pastry Shop and V&T pizzeria.
Read More >>In honor of Digital TV transition
By Tom Teicholz at 15 June, 2009, 12:47 pm
Here is a collection of vintage TVs that sits in the lobby of WNET in New York, that I visited on the occasion of a party during BookExpo for Daniel Goldhagen’s forthcoming “Worse Than War” which will also be an WNET documentary program (or programme as the case may be).
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