Seems as though I just wished the curious g readers a Happy 2010. Did you catch up on my top 10 lists of the best films, plays and books (according to me, of course) and my yearly discoveries? As the new year approaches, a special thanks for another year of following the curious g. Here’s [...]

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein How about that – Einstein and I have something in common. Some of the most interesting finds I made in 2011 were random – and local – discovered while walking around the city. As the world struggles through economic challenges, political uprisings and [...]

This past Saturday was a stunning December day in NYC. Temps in the mid-50s at this time of year are rare, so everyone takes their activities outside before the freezing temperatures, whipping winds and snow and ice storms create a state of near hibernation. For me anyway. I headed over the Brooklyn Bridge into DUMBO [...]

The first visual that popped into my mind when I read the 2011 word of the year was nearly everything designed by the prolific Karim Rashid.

Today, 11 november 2011 at 11:11:11am, time and date will sync to a perfect uninumber palindrome – an amazing event that happens only one day every 100 years. How cool is that? Who cares, what does it really mean? Not much, but then again, if you’re creative, you can make a story where there actually [...]

It’s that time again – when logophiles sit front-and-center picking the Word of the Year (WOTY) – the defining word deemed the new and best summary for the happenings of 2011. While no words have been chosen for the WOTY as yet, some frontrunners being tossed about are: Occupy, Downgrade, Winning. For dictionary watchers, the [...]

Halloween greetings to the curious g readers! Costume prepped? Broomstick, or favorite mode of transport ready for this year’s festivities? If you prefer visiting haunted sites to dress-up, here’s last year’s list of the 5 best haunted haunts.

A friend gave me this wonderful book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, back in the 1980s inscribed by its author, Chris Van Allsburg. Unlike Van Allsburg’s other books (Jumanji, Polar Express for example), he did not create these illustrations – or so the story goes. Where did they come from, you may wonder? The story [...]

While not as publically-proclaimed as the 21 may 2011 Rapture, Harold Camping has declared this friday, 21 october, the real deal. “We can be sure that the whole world… will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011.” What the believers did Camping’s previous declarations didn’t come to fruition, and sent [...]

I’ve been walking this city for along time. When I arrived, New York was a raw city. I knew where to walk, and where to avoid. But the one thing I could always rely on, if things got a bit dicey, were gas stations. They were always nearby as a safe haven. Well, it’s a [...]