With much of the world holidaying, NYC museums have accommodated tourists (and staycation locals) with some great exhibits.
Here’s what piqued my curiosity and is on my radar pre-Labor Day.
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A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan
@Rubin Museum of Art

The first exhibition of photographs by John Claude White, a British government [...]

Now here’s an inventive ad campaign. It works on the idea: How far will someone go for freebies?
Rocks Off has been operating concert cruises in New York Harbor for 10 years. Recently, the company began offering five pairs of tickets to anyone who will get a tattoo of the company’s name or fish logo. In [...]

Fifty years ago, Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. The novel was published on 11 july 1960. It immediately became a best-seller, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1962.
The novel has never gone out of print and 11 july 2010 is its golden jubilee.
I saw [...]

Here are my reviews of two recent reads which I found quite exhilarating for totally different reasons.

Really it’s a cliffhanger
In his most recent book, K2: Life & Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain, American mountaineer Ed Viesturs focuses on the six most dramatic seasons in K2 history. K2 – located in the Karakoram Range [...]

It’s that time again.
With massive cuts to transportation services here in NYC, the world famous subway map is getting an update. Within a few weeks, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will unveil its revamped version.
It’s amazing that while few NYers actually use the map, these updates never fail to generate discussion and oh-so-much controversy. Back [...]

From the inception of the curious g blog back in February 2009, I have been really fortunate.
Whenever I get blocked or stuck for a new post, I can always rely on the “Shepard Fairey fair-use-HOPE-poster-copyright-infringement-on-AP-photo case” to supply a small infusion of intrigue and, oh yeah, law. I feel attached to this case and it [...]

I’m sad to report that a few weeks ago, the gavel fell on the NBC’s Law & Order (L&O). Tonight is the series finale of the mothership show. They wrapped the season, not knowing they were canceled – meaning no big final oration from DA Jack McCoy on the murder/moral conundrum.
I’m excited to report that [...]

Just because.

The documentary airs 16 may at 8pm on

Designer Leslie Buck, the man who gave us the iconic blue-and-white paper coffee cup, died last week at age 87.
Long before Starbucks go-cup and sleeve arrived, New Yorkers stopped into one of the city’s Greek-owned diners for their morning cup of joe. More often then not, they would take their coffee away in Buck’s “Anthora [...]

(With all due respect to the Beatles’s I am the Walrus.)
For the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the organizers of Earth Day New York launched the “Be the E” campaign. The campaign was designed to give the eco-awareness day a “fresh face, draw new people into the environmental movement, and inspire everyone to take positive [...]