Blog Detail

Recent Posts

• A Visit to Astoria, Then & Now: The Marx Brothers at Paramount Pictures and Notes on Contemporary Attractions

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 in astoria, cuisine, moving image, museums, new york, queens, the marx brothers

  The Marx Brothers at Paramount PicturesIn 1929, in the wake of their stage successes, the Marx Brothers signed a five film deal with Paramount Pictures. During their stage run in Animal Crackers at the Forty Fourth Street Theatre, the Marx Brothers t...

• New York's Theater District: The Legacy of the Golden Age, A Walk and a Map

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 08:10 in architecture, broadway, new york, theater, theater district

  Even without a ticket to a Broadway play, a walk around New York's theater district can reveal the story of the American theater. In this relatively small piece of real estate, landmark plays and musicals unfolded on the stage and enriched individual...

• The Marx Brothers on Broadway, & Notes on New York Theatres in the 1920s

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 16:51 in broadway, new york, the marx brothers, theater

  This post is the fourth in a series about the Marx Brothers in New York. After playing the Palace Theatre, the pinnacle of the big time, the Marx Brothers drifted about on the lower rungs of the vaudeville circuit following a series of contractual di...

• Moveable Feasts in the City: New York Food Trucks and Carts

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 16:12 in cuisine, new york

  My lunch yesterday consisted of one pollo asada taco, small but tasty, and for dessert, a mini-wafelini. The taco consisted of chopped grilled chicken with a dash of pico de gallo and a creamy avocado sauce served on a couple of soft corn tortillas. ...

• The Marx Brothers in New York: Interlude - On Groucho Walking

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 in flâneur, new york, the marx brothers, walking

  This special new series about the Marx Brothers in New York continues this week, following the brothers into a career in Broadway and into the movies, but first I would like to take a little time to discuss Groucho's peculiar way of walking. Sometime...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 4.80 out of a possible 5 based on 5 comments.

Post A Comment/Review

* Your IP is being logged.
* Your e-mail address is used only for verification purposes only and will not be sold, or shown publicly.
* No HTML tags allowed
* DO NOT use the Comments/Reviews to promote your own site.

Name:	or Login
E-mail:
Rating:	Please Select A Rating 1 - Worst 2 3 - Average 4 5 - Fantastic
Verify:	Spam Protection: sum of 2 + 2
Comment:
	Remember Information