Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
Always at night, it’s the largest Halloween parade in the world. 60,000 participants. A carnival. A debauch. A trip.
Month: October 2014
November 16: NYC screening of “The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest”, a film about criminal justice.
If you are criminal defense lawyer, this will interest you. Other screening locations, which include law schools, are below. The NYC screening […]
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Jack Symon Asher (Jack) Bruce (1943-2014)
Introductory note: What does a Superstar Scot musician’s passing have to do with a legal weblog or “blawg” started in 2005 about […]
Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll #2: James, Jones, Cocker & Bassinger.
Go on over there and turn on the light…no all the lights, Now come back here and stand on this chair…that’s right. […]
Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll #1: Dancing in small spaces.
Below during the performance of “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” at the May 2005 Cream reunion concerts in London, a man in his 30s […]
Let’s abolish the popular election of American state judges.
See Mark Stern’s article in Slate, Justice for Sale: SCOTUS is poised to make judicial elections even more corrupt. As we’ve urged […]
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921-2014)
Bradlee with Washington Post owner Katherine Graham in 1971. Ben Bradlee’s death saddens me and many, many other people. In the 1970s […]
“It’s nice to be Dr. Ruth…”
Long story, but yesterday morning I had breakfast here in New York with Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) who at 86 is just […]
Photoshop This: Say it ain’t so, Tom Corbett.
Since 2011, a former law partner of mine, Tom Corbett, a first-rate trial lawyer and past U.S. Attorney, has been the Republican […]
October 15, 1764
On this day in 1764, Edward Gibbon, historian and Member of Parliament, saw friars singing in the ruins of the Temple of […]
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chiem
Melrose Market, Seattle, 5:00 pm, October 11, 2014. Officiant: John Daniel Hull
Ben Bradlee Story #2: “What did you do in WWII, Ben?”
In our series, and also from the June 6, 2012 edition of Vanity Fair: in 1984, the Washington Post published data it […]
Want to find out what pros think of your unpublished novel?
Double Bridge Publishing Company, Inc.. Double Bridge is a new online publishing service based in Washington, D.C. launched last month by Florida […]
Authentic and American: Ben Bradlee Story #1
Earlier this week we weighed in briefly on the life of former Washington Post managing editor Bill Bradlee, now 93 and ailing. […]