by Seth Rogovoy My eyeglasses and eyeglass case went AWOL for the last 24 hours. I came home from a road trip yesterday – during which time I know I was wearing my spectacles, as I need them only for things like driving and seeing – and shortly after getting settled in back home, late…
There is an exhibition of photographs by Allen Ginsberg, taken over the course of five decades, many of them portraits of his Beat era friends and colleagues, including William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, running currently at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery. I paid a visit to the show – “Beat…
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A year ago today, January 15, 2012, my grandmother, Rose Schiff Peretz, breathed her last breath here on Earth, and went off to be reunited with her husband, Bernard Peretz – whom she hadn’t seen since he passed away in January 1981 – and my mother, Stella Peretz Rogovoy, who predeceased her by several years.…
I am probably one of the only people on the planet who has yet to see a single episode of the Masterpiece Theatre program, ‘Downton Abbey.’ My TV-watching partner, toward whose taste in programs and movies I am typically quite sympathetic, insists that I give it a try tonight – the debut episode of Season…
by Seth Rogovoy Last week, I began re-viewing “The Sopranos” from the beginning, for the first time since I originally made my way through the series – not in real broadcast time but on Netflix DVDs (remember those?) as they became available. And I’m here to tell you two things: the show is even better…
by Seth Rogovoy I keep hoping that I will find the time to write about these recordings, but if I wait for that to happen, the change of the calendar year will most likely come and go and it will really be old news and no one will care what my favorite albums of 2012…
by Seth Rogovoy Let’s just for one brief hypothetical moment pretend to accept the view of the gun-rights crowd that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to bear arms, and that this was encoded in the Bill of Rights as an outgrowth of early America’s war against tyranny,…
