No. 68 - Jazz in West Village with a Spy
574 Words. 2 Minute Read.
Arthur’s is one of those rare places that feels like you’ve been there before on your first visit. They have nothing to prove, and they know it, which makes for a warm environment. We were there in late March, and Christmas wreaths were still up… it’s that kind of place.
No. 64 - Bonham in 100 Words
150 Words. 1 Minute Read.
Why do the drums in “When the Levee Breaks” catapult us into a state of raw vulnerability? How does Bonham bypass the intellect and plunge so deftly into the visceral? How are his drum sticks so methodically violent and poetic?
No. 59 - An Illustrated Life - Artist Brennan Seward
1,012 Words. 4 Minute Read.
STANDING 6 FEET 4 INCHES TALL, WITH RED MUTTONCHOPS, and a penchant for dressing in full Highland regalia, kilt and all, Gordon Cummings, a big game hunter from Scotland, returned to the U.K. in 1848 with 27 metric tons of wildlife trophies from his excursion in Africa. The man known as the “Lion Hunter” then went on a lecture tour with spellbinding stories of stabbing a hippopotamus to death, battling a 13-foot python, and killing countless species that heretofore were relatively unknown to his fellow 19th-century countrymen.
No. 50 - Babs & Dolly
629 Words. 2 Minute Read.
Out of the Bose speakers came a sound smoother than Ladakhi cashmere, more powerful than a locomotive, and as delicate as Venetian glass. It filled the cavernous room with beauty, sensually entwined with silky clouds of cigar smoke - a wraithlike waltz of sorts.