Culture For The Non-Cultured

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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My friend, Gail*, told me this story:
Gail was volunteering through New York Cares, an organization that offers people opportunities to volunteer on various projects in the community. She had a 10-week commitment to teach computers to the elderly in Harlem.
There was one woman, Ruth, who was having a particularly tough time getting used to [...]

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As many of you know, for the past 2 years, I have organized a large social group in New York City called Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup. We attend cultural events around the city — theater, museums, walking tours, baseball games, and more — in groups of 20-60 people. Events are usually held 3-4 [...]

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Some of my favorite art just appears not in galleries, but on random street corners, like in the photo below.
According to the photographer, Dave Beckerman, “in the early morning light, these menus at the local Jackson Hole Burger joint look (to me) like an exotic flower.”
Don’t you agree?
(Picture is from Black & White Photos of [...]

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(OK, so I read about this back in September of last year – my how time flies — but I loved it so much, I have to tell you guys about it now.)
In the midst of the galleries of Chelsea, on West 24th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, an artist named Scot Kaplan built the [...]

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Hooray for the slight sexualization of important figures in our nation’s history!
Vote A, B, or C in the comments section.
Vote A in the comments section for Alexander Hamilton

A. Alexander Hamilton:
Connection to New York: He founded the New York Post! He also died in New York City after he was offed in a duel [...]

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What do these 3 images have in common? They are images of polarities, or opposites. I’ve always loved pictures of opposites (one of the above is even mine).
There’s the big strong man, looking tenderly at his tiny, helpless infant (that I lifted out of the public domain at Creative Commons.)
There’s the tiny woman [...]

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As I explained in an earlier blog, on the weekends, I like to take staycations: to experience New York City as if I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tourist on one of those ubiquitous double-decker buses. This attitude is tempered, of course, with the knowledge of one who is lucky enough to call herself [...]

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