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Category Archives: USA
NYC: The Water Tank Project
An impressive roster of New York City artists have signed-on to participate in a consciousness-raising project dubbed The Water Tank Project. Designed to draw public attention to the urgent need for water conservation and the myriad threats to the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, USA
Tagged Mexico City, Mumbai, New York City, Rio de Janeiro
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Found Libraries
Even though there are still more than 13,000 public payphones on New York City sidewalks, they are seen by most residents as dead technology, if they are noticed at all. But NY architect and civil society activist John Locke, the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Libraries, USA
Tagged New York, New York City, Payphone
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Lincoln in Books
The brand new Center for Education and Leadership at Washington DC’s Ford’s Theater Museum sports a ten meter-tall tower of 6,800 books all about President Abraham Lincoln. The books are all histories or biographies about the 16th President, along with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ford's Theatre, Washington DC
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What’s a Rare Bookman
The exhibition “Ray Safford, Rare Bookman,” which opened yesterday at the Grolier Club, New York City, offers a look into the famed New York firm of Charles Scribner’s Sons and the literary, publishing, and rare book worlds in turn-of-the-century New York. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Edward W. Bok, Grolier Club, Lewis Carroll, New York City, Rudyard Kipling, Uncle Remus
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Photographers: Know Your Rights
Actor/activist Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the Gregory Brothers and the ACLU have produced an entertaining and informative little video , with the assistance of the animated ghost of Benjamin Franklin, to inform photographers about their legal rights. This timely film applies to … Continue reading
Travel Guidebook News
Well it was inevitable, the co-stars and co-creators of the sweet and wacky sketch comedy show Portlandia Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen have a book deal. Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette imprint, will release PORTLANDIA: A Guide for Visitors this … Continue reading
Hot Bagels for Breakfast
Who doesn’t love a hot bagel? Never had a bagel? So sad for you. This wonderful short film is from the Brooklyn Public Library film archives. Filmed in the heart of Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s, the film is … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, Libraries, USA
Tagged Bagel, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Public Library, Cream cheese, New York
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Watermelon Sugar
Monday would have been iconic 60s writer Richard Brautigan‘s 77th birthday. No one seems to be reading Brautigan these days. What a pity; his work has so much to offer. This Youtube video of his daughter Ianthe reading from Brautigan’s … Continue reading
America’s Most Literate Cities
For the second consecutive year, Washington, D.C. , has been ranked as the most literate city in the country, according to an annual statistical survey from Connecticut Central State University in New Britain. Here is the top 10 for the … Continue reading
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