2008 reducks

It’s the season of retrospectives and clip shows.  Slow news days mean dipping into the back catalog and disguising it as the Year in Review.  So I present ten of my favorite posts of 2008.  Feel free to vote for one of these or nominate your own in the...

Atypical tintypes at ICP

Thanks to the Connections program, I used my PRC membership card to get in to the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York city free.  There were three shows of serious photojournalism and documentary photography by Susan Meiselas, Cornell Capa and W....

Trembling before dog with the dumpling diva

They say that New York is one of the few cities where you can get road rage walking. The post-Christmas shopping crowd on lower Broadway was appalling. And I wasn’t even really shopping. The density of tourists and out of towners meandering and stopping suddenly...

Pastry vuja de

I’ve been eating and writing about savory scones and other pastries for a while now and word seems to have gotten out.  I helped analytic marketeer L out with her mom’s Etsy site (plug: not too late for holiday shopping) and was rewarded with not scones...