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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The AUDELCO Theater Awards (1980)
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The headline on the New York Post of November 17 [1980] forewarned readers that it would "SNOW!" that night. And the snow came. S...
Thursday, July 9, 2026
A Brief Personal Quiz
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The following quiz was posted on Facebook by MikenVal Collins, who linked it to my cousin Sharon's page as an alternative to the gloom a...
Thursday, June 25, 2026
A Manhattan Bookstore Closes
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More than a year ago, Shakespeare & Company's store, on Broadway near 105th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was closed a ...
Thursday, June 11, 2026
We Need An Interurban Trolley System
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There's a very memorable scene in the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015), in which a character, who I think was...
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Very Apt Descriptions
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Here are Google A.I.'s recent descriptions of this blog: "Urban Book Maven is an online blog and cultural archive authored by write...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Books Are Tiny Time Machines
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Michiko Kakutani (born 1955), the former chief book critic of the New York Times , has given what I think is the best description I've e...
Friday, May 15, 2026
Harlem Church Tours
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I could be wrong, but I believe that the hundreds of tourists visiting Harlem churches every Sunday morning come for the spectacle, the ente...
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