New York Times 7/18/19 New York Times 7/18/19

Steve Cannon, Whose Townhouse Was an East Village Salon, Dies at 84

New York Times 4/11/19 New York Times 4/11/19

Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole

Eve Packer 1/7/19 Eve Packer 1/7/19

Cornelia St. Cafe, June Performance

-the list goes on, on and on, names and dates i've forgotten,

but were an intense vivid and you-always-think-it-will-be-there in deep indigo, mirrors, the tiny magic stage--

maybe, maybe--like the song says, 'some other spring'-- for the ghosts, and onwards, 'for the living--

New York Times 10/29/18 New York Times 10/29/18

Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote ‘For Colored Girls,’ Is Dead at 70 (The New York Times)

Ntozake Shange, a spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died on Saturday in Bowie, Md. She was 70.

New York Times 9/4/18 New York Times 9/4/18

Colin Kaepernick’s Nike Campaign Keeps N.F.L. Anthem Kneeling in Spotlight (New York Times)

Colin Kaepernick, the former N.F.L. quarterback who inspired a player protest movement but who has been out of a job for more than a year, has signed a new, multiyear deal with Nike that makes him a face of the 30th anniversary of the sports apparel company’s “Just Do It” campaign, Nike confirmed on Monday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/sports/kaepernick-nike.html

Thomas Rogers 5/10/18 Thomas Rogers 5/10/18

From the New York Times: I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing

PARIS — The most uncomfortable thing about being naked in a museum, it turns out, is the temperature. A half-hour into the first nudist tour of the Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art museum in Paris, I had gotten used to the feeling of exposure, but I hadn’t acclimatized to the cold air circulating through the cavernous galleries.