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Greenwich Village Stories – A Collection of Memories

I am honored to be included in this upholding effort, in a group of remarkable artists, even though my arriving to the neighborhood was part of the inflation: “West Village harbored a mishmash of different species and formed a battleground of sorts for MBAs like me and subletting artists,” I argue in my essay. Yet there is always hope.

“What was so special about this “West Village”?” Malcolm Gladwell asked, when all he knew about New York was “from Martin Scorsese movies.” He is one of the au...

Greenwich Village Stories

“What was so special about this “West Village”?” Malcolm Gladwell asked, when all he knew about New York was “from Martin Scorsese movies.” He is one of the authors ofGreenwich Village Stories, a collection of essays by artists like John Guare, Thomas Meehan, Lou Reed, Wynton Marsalis, Patricia Clarkson, and many more (matched by photographs by Allen Ginsberg, Rudy Burckhardt, Berenice Abbott), an anthology of personal writings that reveals how the Village stimulated and changed these creativ...

Only God Forgives: The Professional Democrat and the Rise of Demopublican Dystopia

The Democratic Party has reached the point of no return in distancing itself from the common people. This trend has been in the works for two decades, but today’s political landscape suggests a Wallshington-funded power race between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley, one that spurs a Demopublican dystopia.

“How many professionals are there in your New York office?” Ex-schoolmates often asked me in ’00s. And by “professionals” they meant MBAs, as opposed to the administrative assistants, accounta...

Only God Forgives: The Professional Democrat and the Rise of Demopublican Dystopia — January 2014

The Democratic Party has reached the point of no return in distancing itself from the common people. This trend has been in the works for two decades, but today’s political landscape suggests a Wallshington-funded power race between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley, one that spurs a Demopublican dystopia.

“How many professionals are there in your New York office?” Ex-schoolmates often asked me in ’00s. And by “professionals” they meant MBAs, as opposed to the administrative assistants, accounta...

Debauched Sci-ethics in Dennis Iliadis’ New Film, Plus One, May Launch a New Genre

I wasn’t 20 when I walked into Iliadis’ bedroom. It was during one of the raucous parties that he threw with his brother at their bachelor-pad of a home in Athens; their father being the prime playboy then. Drinking, making out, and vomiting were part of the scene, but what gripped me the most was a framed photo on Iliadis’ desk. There, Iliadis posed buck-naked on a motorbike; blond curly hair and torso thrown on the tank; ass just slightly up in the air. I remember studying this half-Bottice...

Debauched Sci-ethics in Dennis Iliadis’ New Film, Plus One, May Launch a New Genre — October 2013

I wasn’t 20 when I walked into Iliadis’ bedroom. It was during one of the raucous parties that he threw with his brother at their bachelor-pad of a home in Athens; their father being the prime playboy then. Drinking, making out, and vomiting were part of the scene, but what gripped me the most was a framed photo on Iliadis’ desk. There, Iliadis posed buck-naked on a motorbike; blond curly hair and torso thrown on the tank; ass just slightly up in the air. I remember studying this half-Bottice...

Patmos, Payne and Paradoxes

Is there a God? Life after death? An apocalypse in store for us? Age-old questions crossed my mind on the ferry approaching Patmos, the Aegean island reined by a thousand-year old monastery, a fortress that summits the island’s stony landscape and local life. Patmos is mentioned in the Book of Revelation. John the Apostle was here when he got visions he logged in the Apocalypse. The cave where he allegedly had his prophecies is on the road from the port to the main town, a snaking lane swimmi...

Patmos, Payne and Paradoxes — August 2013

Is there a God? Life after death? An apocalypse in store for us? Age-old questions crossed my mind on the ferry approaching Patmos, the Aegean island reined by a thousand-year old monastery, a fortress that summits the island’s stony landscape and local life. Patmos is mentioned in the Book of Revelation. John the Apostle was here when he got visions he logged in the Apocalypse. The cave where he allegedly had his prophecies is on the road from the port to the main town, a snaking lane swimmi...

Costa Manos’ Global Ease

Take a stroll on the second floor of the Benaki Museum in Athens and Magnum photographer Constantine Manos’ exhibition will take you to a world of lost slowness. His peripatetic years in rural Greece among napping herders and thick fishermen are captured in “A Greek Portfolio / 50 Years Later,” an astonishing collection of an ease gone. Or is it?

American born Manos belongs to the fraternity of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Robert McCabe, Bruce Chatwin, travelers who spent time in Greece and credited...

Costa Manos’ Global Ease — May 2013

Take a stroll on the second floor of the Benaki Museum in Athens and Magnum photographer Constantine Manos’ exhibition will take you to a world of lost slowness. His peripatetic years in rural Greece among napping herders and thick fishermen are captured in “A Greek Portfolio / 50 Years Later,” an astonishing collection of an ease gone. Or is it?

American born Manos belongs to the fraternity of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Robert McCabe, Bruce Chatwin, travelers who spent time in Greece and credited...