Posts Tagged ‘Susan Braudy’s Diary’

Works of Art on a Budget

Written by admin on October 15, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

For many years, I pressed my nose against windows displaying spectacular posters from all eras and countries at the Chisholm Larsson poster gallery, on Eighth Avenue at West 17th Street in the arty heart of Chelsea. Alas, I believed these beckoning works of art were too pricey. I recently stared at a huge portrait of
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Dave Gets His Due

Written by admin on October 1, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Dear David Letterman, This is no fan letter—it’s a love letter. I’ve loved watching you for three decades. I’m writing because our paths are not likely to cross, even though you broadcast five blocks from my apartment. One night, to your displeasure, we did cross paths. Parked in front of my building was the most
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Shane the Wizard Healer

Written by admin on September 17, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I don’t want to brag, gentle reader, but I’m on excellent terms with a great and happy wizard: Shane Hoffman, who runs Turning Point acupuncture at 60th and Broadway. Shane knows things. The man has two doctorates: one in divinity and the other in the ancient Asian practice of acupuncture. This gives you a hint
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From Liberation to Trivialization

Written by admin on September 2, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

When I interviewed Margaret Mead in the late 1970s, she said it wasn’t women who need liberation, it was men. She cited the malevolent symbolism of the penis, shown publicly only in photographs of corpses on battlefields. She said such public displays were considered secret, dirty and even violent by women and men. (She was
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I Love Animals Every Moment

Written by admin on August 19, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

This is a tale with twists. I am the sort of person who lurks at the pet store on Lexington Avenue at 63rd and convinces other people to buy the puppy they’re cuddling. Gentle reader, I confess, I also say hello to a cardinal and a raccoon in Central Park. My first pet wasn’t a
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Neighbor Love

Written by admin on August 5, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Communities form in the big city and remain rock solid. This is the story of a sad thing that happened in my building. I must add, however, that it was followed by a spontaneous, spiritual event. First the sad part. “K,” a lordly 13-year-old Maltese dog, died last week of natural causes. His owner “H,”
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Froelich Hits the Jackpot

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Gentle reader, I invite you to eavesdrop on my first telephone chat with Paula Froelich, who is leaving her powerful position as deputy editor at the New York Post’s Page Six to produce her own MTV series. She is also the gifted author of Mercury In Retrograde, the hilarious hit novel about three very different
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A Few of My Favorite Things

Written by admin on July 8, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I love summer, a time when I forcibly inject hedonism into my hectic life. I desert John Stuart Mill and even Woody Allen, who believe pleasure is merely the absence of pain. Afternoons I enter Central Park at Sixth Avenue and start breathing pure air deeply. A cardinal and his red-crested wife fly by. A
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Jerry Seinfeld, Our Lucky Charm

Written by admin on June 24, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Oh, the reports I get. Oh, the dark regrets I harbor when total strangers tell me they’ve just sighted Jerry Seinfeld in my neighborhood. Woody Allen says seeing celebrities makes us feel immortal. OK, but seeing Jerry Seinfeld makes people feel really, really lucky. “Hey, you just missed Jerry,” said the happy man crossing Central
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A World-Class Artist Rides into Town

Written by admin on June 11, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I’m lucky I don’t need to board a plane to LAX to see world-class art by Tony Berlant, who makes his playful yet awesome collage/paintings of found and painted metal in Santa Monica. I’m the proud owner of his masterly From Afar, an imaginary, southwestern American canyon. Most great stuff comes to us in Manhattan.
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