Offered Without Comment

by Robert Sietsema

February 17, 2012

Noodle shop, Main Street, Flushing, Sunday, 3:30pm

Halal pizza parlor, 37th Avenue, Long Island City, Saturday, 3:30 p.m. (click to enlarge)

Impromptu late-night pickle stand, Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Friday, 8:15 p.m.

My Chia Pet would be jealous, Carmine Street, Greenwich Village, Friday, 8:30 p.m.

Punk ’77: A Cult Explodes, and a Movement Is Born

“I haven’t been this excited about rock and roll in at least 10 years. First it was isolated artists, then a vanguard, but now it looks like a movement.”

by Robert Christgau
News & Politics

Reflections on Watergate: John Mitchell’s Death Mask

“His cheeks, colored by a network of ruptured blood vessels, were formed by a coalescence of hanging globules, beneath which the double fold of his chin melted into his neck. And his skull was strung with cords of fat.”

by Leonard Orr
Music

Rock Death in the ’70s: A Sweepstakes

"Do not the dead deserve an accounting at least as irreproachable as the survivors receive with each week’s edition of Billboard?"

by Greil Marcus
Film

Quentin Tarantino, Natural Born Filmmaker

“One day his trajectory from junior high dropout to Video Archives clerk to cinema wunderkind may eclipse L.A.’s longstanding specimen tale of Lana Turner at Schwab’s.”

by Lisa Kennedy
From The Archives

The White Issue: White Like Who?

“When did whites come into the world? When was the first time that Europeans, faced with otherness, looked at each other and said, ‘We’re white’?”

by Edward Ball
The City

If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home by Now

“New York isn’t the center of the universe, this IS the universe, and since I’m here, I’m important, too.”

by Jan Hoffman