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R.I.P. Tower Records

Today’s a sad day for music fans, or at least music fans who remember vinyl and cassette tapes. Tower Records closes it’s retail stores for the last time tonight. The chain was born in the 60s in California and has had two giant stores in New York City for...

All Aboard Ark II

I was excited when I heard that Ark II was coming out on DVD. The series was part of CBS’ Saturday Morning lineup in the Fall of 1976. It was back in the days of live action children’s programming, in the same era as the original Land of the Lost and the...

Ordinals Lose 12-5

The Wildmen lived up to their name last night, delivering a wild game to the Ordinals. The Wildmen have some good skating technique combined with a strong passing game that overwhelmed us in the early part of the game. As the game kept going, we figured out how to...

Dreamgirls!

An early Christmas present came this week as we found out that we won free passes to an advanced screening of Dreamgirls. We went tonight (conveniently it was at the theater just 5 minutes walk from our apartment), so we had the privilege of seeing it even before it...

A Little Christmastime

Of course Christmas is everywhere in the city right now. Here are a couple of images captured tonight as we walked through the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center (yes, those are palm trees). Sorry the pictures are a bit fuzzy, they are from my cell phone, but...