Cinematic Homage: Motion Pictures That Contain Excerpts Of Other Films Within Them

Seen in Scenes Dedication: There are eight million stories in the naked city; this is one of them: According to former WNEW-FM personality Jonathan Schwartz, New York City broadcaster Channel 9 had pink-slipped their technician, Tony Monte. On his last night at the WOR-TV controls, Monte was responsible for airing the 1947 Prison Film Brute Force, starring Burt Lancaster (Likely a 'Million Dollar Movie') - - -

Weekly World News: Memorable Headlines Of The Best American Tabloid 1990-1994

Praise Be Joseph Pulitzer!
I can not believe the favorite tabloid of my youth, The Weekly World News, has made its premiere on Google Books. With a sizable percentage of the Facebook generation taking information gleaned from the internet as fact, you can almost imagine some of the hysterical middle school term papers that are bound be submitted in upcoming years - - -

A Paper For The Art Bell Crowd:
Based out of Florida, the Weekly World News was a supermarket tabloid that started out like it's contemporaries; printing gossip, weight loss plans, celebrity photos and other unreadable crap. From its premiere in 1980 through the turn of the decade, it had gradually transformed into a full blown fiction, with screaming headlines, pseudo stories, farked photos and weekly features from:
►Psychic Sophia Sabak - Later replaced by her younger, more attractive "niece" Serena
►Dear Dotty Advice Column - Innuendo-laced snark that made Xavier Hollander look tame
► Ed Anger's My America - Radical right editorials penned by a stone-age Archie Bunker

High Fidelity List Series: Top 10 Signs That Block Out Scenery And Defy Common Sense

Subtitled:
Signs, Signs, Everywhere is Signs

Background:
It all started when I found myself asking, "Have any of those huge electronic highway alert signs that came en vogue a year or two ago ever 'warned' me about anything of consequence?” The answer was a resounding, "No". I made a note to check the roadsides I travel upon for other useless signage – and believe you me; someone’s making a fortune here. If I had the political connections, I’d hand in my resignation tomorrow and open a sign manufacturing business.

Déjà Vu all Over Again: The Seven Reasons Bill Graham Closed Down The Fillmore East

Fillmore East - End of a 4 Year Run

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same:

In an open letter appearing on page 45 of the May 6th, 1971 edition of The Village Voice, Bill "Uncle Bobo" Graham published an open, 'Dear Friends' letter explaining his reasons for closing down the famous venues. The seven reasons he enumerated are quoted exactly as they were published - and resonate as much (if not more) today, then they did 35 years ago

Artists & Entertainers With an Honorary Street or Landmark in New Yorks Five Boroughs

Dedication: Where the streets have two names...In honor of Dave Van Ronk


Introduction: In the 5 boroughs of NYC, the most prevalent manner in which notables are honored is to name a street after them. It's essentially Gotham's metaphor to Hollywood's Walk of Fame or Chicago honoring most everyone who ever stepped foot on a sidewalk

Background: Unlike LA, where businessmen decide the honorees, NY's process is left in the hands of the city council, who approves names which mayors sign-off on. As a rule, entertainers take a back seat to fallen heroes and political hacks. Post-9/11, sign crews were very busy.

Suburban Rant: Pennysavers - The Bane Of Our Driveways

Every Saturday, come Hell or high water, rain or shine, the publisher of The Pennsaver distributes their weekly publications to every house in my neighborhood - and all 2 million homes on Long Island.

Whoever Came Up With The Concept Of Using Golf Umbrellas In Urban Settings: F.O.A.D.

Supposedly, lightning is the biggest hazard during a rainstorm -- not having your eyeballs ripped from their sockets by sidewalk SUVs.

Times have changed. For the past half dozen or so years, the ratio of conventional rain gear to golf umbrellas has continued to skew away from the side of sanity. Short of writing this worthless mini-rant, I'm helpless in either comprehending, avoiding or eliminating the wholesale use of these god-damned, Titleist & Big Bertha brand umbrellas on city sidewalks. I've been smacked upside the head 500x too often by these insensitive ombrophobiacs. My most recent wound is a decent sized, horizontal wound across my neck.