The ‘Ghost Who Walks’ aka the Phantom couldn’t have done any better himself. If anything, NJ resident Hakim Maloum is more of a Mr. Walker than the Phantom. That would be because Maloum is in Venice Beach, CA today. After having literally walked from NYC to Los Angeles.  Photo credit & copyrights - Todays THV.
Here’s the […]

Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Thomas
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Come November, New York City gets its own Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Mayor Bloomberg kicked off press conference with Billy Joel, Clive Davis and the museum’s President Terry Stewart. NYTimes report says that the 25,000-square-foot annex, at 76 Mercer Street, will be the museum’s first expansion outside Cleveland and will include exhibitions […]

Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Thomas
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There’s one thing you have to admire about New York City, and that is the absolute disregard for moderation. Most things are done in extremes in the Big Apple, and New York hotels are at the forefront of this game. Here’s some unique hotel suites in NYC which are, well.. sky high in more ways than […]

Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Thomas
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X-files and Scully are here again, and a UFO is floating above Central Park, NYC. Maybe a wee bit of an exaggeration. The round thingy floating 30 stories above Central Park in New York City is a baloon, the City’s latest gimmick to keep New Yorkers happy and the tourist dollars flowing in. The baloon rides are […]

Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Thomas
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The Brooklyn Museum got taken with its collection of 30 Coptic sculptures, a third of which have been determined to be fake. So what do they do? Instead of warehousing the sculptures, they’re holding a ‘fake exhibition’, as in they’re inviting the public to see the fakes.
The New York Times reports that by showing the fakes […]

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Thomas
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Since I’m thinking about New York, I wanted to write about the New Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum now makes its permanent home in lower Manhattan thanks to Tokyo architects Sejima+Nishizawa/SANAA. The building design is creating a bit of buzz and as always, opinions fall on the love it or hate it […]

Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Thomas
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Since I covered Haunted California as a possible excursion for Tomo, I got to thinkin’ about his hometown of New York. Wondering, naturally, about its ghosts, goblins, witches, and hauntings. Once I had the idea in my head, I had to know more.
What I found is that NYC is full of terrifying ghost […]

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Thomas
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