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What constitutes coincidence? By what device, and to what end, does serendipity factor into our lives? I’ve been wrestling with a spate of last-minute productions despite a mostly non-breaking news environment at the MTV of late. Primarily, it has to do with planning, scheduling, coordination — the kind of thing MTVers loath (but I love).…

I’m not one to worry about gentrification. In fact, I’ve enjoyed seeing my little Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood grow over the last eight years. But it might just be getting a little scary around here with all these luxery apartments and skyscrapers going up. It’s not the height or the extra people, it’s the “luxury” and…

A few random notes (before I leave the office and go for a bike ride along the river): “Their Reckoning” [LA Times]: REM, my favorite band of all time, is back in the studio, and back on the road. I’m not psyched that they’re going the greatest hits route (it’s the kind of thing they…

In 1979 or so, I saw a movie in Mrs. Purcell’s third grade English class called “All Summer In A Day”. The story took place on Venus where it rained all day, every day, except for one fifteen minute window every year when the sun came out. That’s what it feels like in New York…

A warm breeze was blowing through the East Village last night as I stumbled to the NR from Ace Bar. The city doesn’t smell like garbage… yet. It will, though, when it really heats up, when the pavement begins to soften and the air turns heavy. For now, though, the wind was a sweet, promising…

One minute, they’re one hundred feet high and made of light. Then, just as quickly, there they were, standing just a few feet away: life-sized, all flesh, blood, and spectacles. They Might Be Giants. Right there in the East Village, just four subway stops (two local, two express) from my Hell’s Kitchen apartment. Reason number…