M.I.T.E. Live

Posted by on July 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment 

Books Are Weapons and Jumel Terrace Books Presents: M.I.T.E. In the Upper Room.  Anteo Fabris, guitar.  Adam Nakhla-Thometz, keyboards. 07.25.14.

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Nina Mae, the Birthday Princess’s Uptown Saturday Night

Posted by on March 18, 2014 · 1 Comment 

Saturday evening, March 15th, a full winter moon over West 162nd Street & Jumel Terrace, and some enchanted one it was. It might have been the most Uptown New York cocktail party I’ve been to since the 1980s. There were black & white movie people, attractive people, very well dressed, the gentlemen in tailored vintage, […]

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Ruben Blades on the Crisis in Venezuela

Posted by on February 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment 

For several years at the turn of the millennium, working on the library of Gustavo and Patricia Cisneros, I had the opportunity to visit Venezuela and get close to some people who remain sufficiently dear to me that I’ve been much distressed by the news coming from there.  This fragile country, experiencing a faltering revolution […]

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