She was denied entry to a Rockettes show — then the facial recognition debate ignited When a lawyer was denied entry to a Rockettes show, it became a flashpoint in the debate over facial recognition technology. Does it keep people safe, or risk further harm?

www.npr.org/2023/01/21/1... The 2023 news item concerning that corporation.

I guess it's iconic for some folks. An indoor stadium, not exactly picturesque. The area around MSG is ...meh. I think the Met Museum is my kind of icon.

Me too. Can think of various machines that travel faster than a runner. My computer can sort files alphabetically faster than a human file clerk organizing paper folders. Whoopee!

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY HAS STACKS OF COMIC BOOKS SITTING IN HER ROOM FRITZI: YOUR ROOM IS A MESS... GET RID OF ALL THESE OLD COMIC BOOKS P2- NANCY IS CARRYING A HUGE STACK OF COMIC BOOKS DOWN THE STREET P3- FRITZI IS SURPRISED WHEN NANCY COMES BACK IN THE HOUSE, SHE CARRYING A HUGE STACK OF COMIC BOOKS NANCY: I SWAPPED THEM WITH IRMA FOR HER OLD COMIC BOOKS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 19,1964

An excerpt from In the Light by Robert Kelly

Guest post series - 'Filohax' No. 28 - Paul Philofaxy for the love of Filofax organisers and all other ring bound personal organisers

Filofax no. 28, thank you again Paul

philofaxy.blogspot.com/2026/04/gues...

It is forbidden to forbid! Did they not get the memo?

so pretentious... who does this guy think he is? If anything, the Vatican might inspire some cradles and seculars to revisit the formalities.

Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

The surveillance has been widely reported, locally. I am glad to have been inside MSG years ago, having no need to return! I'm not saying surveillance was unknown then, but was less personal.... Never again!

he-festivals with blackguard jibes: Is there any other kind?

Kool & The Gang - Fresh YouTube video by KoolAndTheGangVEVO

"...it could not be the fault of the brooding visitor, and still less that of the restored absentee, if he was conscious of the need of mental adjustment to phenomena absolutely fresh." New York and the Hudson: A Spring Impression www.jstor.org/stable/25105...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ1...

Deal Averts Luxury Disaster: A Doorman Strike in NYC More than half a million people live in buildings that were threatened by a walkout of doormen and porters.

Good news! Not sure why The City uses that adjective to describe NYC bldgs w maintenance staff 🙄 Some are lux, some not. When a bldg contains 200+ dwellings, door & maintenance staff isn't a luxury. Many SEIU bldgs contain a mix of market and regulated rents. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/17/d...

www.corita.org/tenrules Rules for living.

Thank you for the 🎁

“A show of fashion,” by Karen Wilkin Karen Wilkin on “Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture,” at the Frick Collection.

Let's go to the Frick. newcriterion.com/article/a-sh...

Prime Minister Mark Carney in conversation with Monocle YouTube video by Monocle Films

m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2gy...

I hear you!

My goodness, you're right. Sarah in childhood!

I love yr informed sprawl. I admit to being mostly aware (and very aware!) of the immeejit fam, having been in the daily presence of HM's glowing portrait for an entire year. I have always found that archival footage from the war years stirring, in a quiet way.

Princess Charlotte Looks More Like Her Mom Than Ever in New Easter Photos These two!

www.glamour.com/story/prince...? I disagree w this claim. Charlotte looks like her paternal *grandmum* the late Elizabeth. Her features recall black & white images of E2 as a child speaking to the nation's children during the second world war.

Nobody wants Jay Powell to leave that job. What is going on over there? I bet even K Warsh himself would feel better if Powell could be Fed chair for life...

www.poetrynw.org/the-fridges-... The Fridges of Famous Poets in Poetry Northwest [a random Poetry Month post]

"Zodiac soup will watch love lash/against my vegetal cheek...The sting of orange on my Christian puncture/May not be drowned before I am preserved."

- Constance Hansen

There's a lot of enemy-of-my-enemy going on these days. It's good enough for as long as it works, the only problem is that enemies are so one dimensional and dull. Not what you really want in a friend.

@knitnannassyd.bsky.social :-) Happy Wednesday

Did that pip squeak really compare his job as VP w that of pontiff? A working definition of goofy.

What is up with these guys. NYC had a mayor (four long years) who explicitly said he was against church-state separation. It was shocking. 2021-2025. Why was he not removed from office the minute he said this? I just don't get it.

That would mean having Jerome Powell in a similar role. Not sure Jay Powell is in the mood for that, but I know a lot of people who like the idea.

v interesting, thanks

For National Poetry Month (PoMo!) we had a group reading at @nysoclib.bsky.social NY Society Library last night. I read some new pieces about eros in public parks...along with a piece I published in @robmclennan.bsky.social's Dusie series. Many thanks to @johntimpane.bsky.social!