I posted some notes from last night’s Y event with Mos Def on the 92Y Blog. Turns out he’s not just for white people, though folks of all colors will love the new stuff he’s been working on with Madlib. It had Anthony DeCurtis nodding.

The Y blog received a nice plug in MUG today.
Given the number of performances, talks and events at the 92nd St. Y, you’d expect a blog about same to be compelling reading and viewing (lots of videos). And so it is.

“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
Have a click around the new interactive timeline I helped put together for the Y.

Because Wikipedia never stops enlightening me, and because Citizendium (the “elitist, anti net-cultural counter-project to Wikipedia,” as summed up by Florian Cramer) never stops boring me, I thought I’d post an annotated list of recent Wikipedia contrails. None of the following items can be found on Citizendium, and I’m not about to apply for the [...]

Work, travel and ironing have been consuming potential updates to this site but the 92nd Street Y summer season is now live. Go buy yourself an art class.
I’m also pleased to report that the New York Society of Association Executives just awarded us with the 2007 CyberSpace Award for 92Y.org in the donor category. Previous [...]

We’re on a history kick at the 92nd Street Y today. It’s all because of Shorpy.

The latest 92nd Street Y podcast is well worth a download, particularly if you have an inventor-grandfather.

We launched a much-needed redesign at the 92nd Street Y tonight. Embedded Flash, rollovers and RSS badges rule the day, and the content’s been lured away from the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Send us feedback and tweets on your new navigational experiences.

Steve Wozniak with David Lee Roth: The Metal Years.
Q: What did Steve Wozniak say to the Pope?
A: “This is Henry Kissinger calling on behalf of President Richard Nixon at the summit in Moscow.”
Read more from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s appearance at the 92nd Street Y last night. He’s not as quotable as Gore Vidal but [...]

Results of recent note-taking at 92Y events:
Gore Vidal: “The last time I sat on this stage, I was afflicted by a fly. An awful fly that kept buzzing around my head as I spoke [...] After a while, I realized the fly was the late Truman Capote.”
Gary Panter: “Paul [Reuben, aka Pee Wee Herman] and [...]

Providence types may be interested in this set of shoddy cameraphone pics I just uploaded to Flickr. They were surreptitiously taken at the RISD Museum’s blow-out exhibition, WUNDERGROUND: Providence, 1995 to the present.
New York-based Providence types may be interested in the fact that tonight, October 10, Gary Panter and Matt Groening will be riffing off [...]

The New York Times has a piece on the resurgence of lecture programs in New York City. Lecture attendance at the New York Public Library, KBG Bar, MoMA, the New School (where I actually went to school) and the 92nd Street Y (where I actually go to work) has seriously grown in recent years, and [...]

I can tell you from experience that this is good advice if you’re a “silent corporate blogging believer” trying to sell the benefits of blogging in your company. The 92Y Blog was picked up by Google in less than 24 hours.

Here’s something I’ve been working on for a while: the 92nd Street Y Blog (”92Y Blog” for short). The tagline is “Highlights from the 92nd Street Y universe” and the idea is to put 92nd Street Y offerings into context. It’s a user-friendly gateway to a complex and extremely busy cultural institution.
If you’re familiar with [...]