Culture For The Non-Cultured

So, we live in New York City, where it is not so unusual to see celebrities walkin’ down the street, just like the rest of us slobs
Once upon a time, about 6 or 7 years ago, I was walking across the street in midtown, with two women behind me.  All of a sudden [...]

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Ah, just came back from visiting P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the museum in Long Island City, and I loved it! My favorite exhibits are interactive and whimsical and I had a ball.
There was James Turrell’s Meeting, a serene room with benches all around it and a perfect square cut through the ceiling. [...]

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James De La Vega is an artist that tags New York’s sidewalks, doors, even the discarded mattresses you see below –with whimsical, inspiring little pics and murals.  He often signs his art with a fish and his name.
New York is a gritty city; De La Vega brightens it up.  (Picture thanks to the wonderful Dave [...]

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So, every year for a very long time, I have asked myself which season is best, or the least tortourus for me: winter, with its cold, dark days and colder darker nights, or summer, with its oppressive, wilt-inducing, pee-smelling but bright ‘n shiny days?
Well, I am self-absorbed enough to test it once and for all.  [...]

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As many readers of this blog know, I organize Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup, a large social group that attends various cultural events — theater, museums, movies, ballet, baseball games, etc. — in groups of 20-60 people.  After each event, we eat.
Below are events in our future.  (many have not been officially announced on the [...]

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For obvious reasons, Fridays rock my world.  Even more than Saturdays, methinks.  There’s something about the anticipation of a free day to plan for that thrills me to no end. 
Tomorrow, a large group of Culture Vultures is going to see Metropolitan Museum of Art.  There’s a sculpture of a balloon animal on the roof!
Oh, and [...]

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During walks around this quaint little city of ours, I have noticed that there are many signs proclaiming various #1s — stores proclaim to have the BEST, the MOST FAMOUS, the CHEAPEST of whatever they are selling — without documenting an objective source.
There are 2 signs below: The first picture was taken at a street [...]

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I don’t know if you could completely see this ad for Gold Peak Tea, but you can see the large feet in the corner, right?  The words next to those large feet are “The Way Tea Should Taste.”
It’s really hot outside.  I don’t know about you, but I could go for a refreshing gulp of relaxing male [...]

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OK, so the title of this post is pretty awful.  Kids are great, of course — how could you not love ‘em? 
So cute & innocent.
In fact, I once read that babies’ proportions have evolved so that adults cannot resist the urge to care for them: babies have big heads in relation to their bodies, big [...]

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Click in the box below for a video I made in about 10 minutes, with the help of my new favorite site called Animoto.com and members of Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup who took pictures of some of the cultural events we have been on in New York City over the past 2 years.
Next up [...]

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