Right now I am reading Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curios People and Dangerous Ideas. The book is a compilation of various articles and essays written by Klosterman that have appeared in numerous magazines over the past decade. I fell in love with Chuck Klosterman’s writing while reading Spin magazine in college (Utica College used to give away [...]
Archive for October, 2007
America Reads with Target
Posted in Reading on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Pratt Students invent the next New York
Posted in Pratt, Utica fame, tagged Pratt on October 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The issue of The Village Voice dated for the week of August 1-7 reports on the field work Pratt students in Brooklyn are doing to revitalize and preserve the face of New York. The article follows along with students from the Pratt campus in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. It mentions Justin Kray who is working toward a master’s degree [...]
Utica goes to Hollywood
Posted in Utica fame, tagged NBC Dunder Mifflin on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For the second time in a decade an NBC television show will incorporate the city of Utica into its plot. The first occurrence of this happened in 1997 when Utica was indirectly referred to on the short-lived sitcom Jenny starring Jenny McCarthy. Utica received a good ribbing by the portrayal of McCarthy’s character as a ditsy, [...]
The Onion lampoons Utica
Posted in Utica fame on October 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An August 10th article in The Onion–a nationally famous satirical newspaper– about the recent minimum wage hike lampoons Utica poverty. This would not be the first time that the our city has received national attention of the negative sort and it is safe to say that it won’t be the last. As a Utican, however, [...]
Get The Lead Out
Posted in Lead, tagged Lead on October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Next week is Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. This is especially important for our area because the OD recently reported that, “The combination of poverty and aging homes in Oneida County means residents here are being exposed to lead at rates above state and national averages.” The article went on to report that Oneida county [...]
Brooklyn beer is brewed in Utica
Posted in Beer on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An article in the oenophile section of the New York Times dated August 21, 2007 analyzing the aromatic and gustatory qualities of vintage beers compelled over seventy people to reply in the comment section. Beer fans–and especially fans of vintage (i.e. aged) beers–had all kinds of things to say about this arcane avocation. I never [...]
