Author Archives: AaronOOF

I just got home from sitting through the absolutely brilliant, Tony Award winning production of Glengarry Glen Ross now playing on Broadway, but this post isn’t about the show. (That one will come … supposedly! Who knows anymore.) No, this post is a good example as to why Aaron can sometimes (often, even?) be aContinue reading “REASON #437 THAT I’M A BIG DORK: MY NON-ENCOUNTER WITH PAUL SCHEER”

In Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times, semi-hidden away at the bottom of an internal page under the column heading “Channeling” was a piece written by Lia Miller about the cable channel AMC. The story focused on how the channel with the no-longer apt name “American Movie Classics” seemed to beContinue reading “THE NY TIMES CATCHES ON TO WHY THE “C” IN AMC HAS LONG BEEN IRRELEVANT”

Today’s MUG entry reminded me that the Howard Johnson’s diner in Times Square (actually, Duffy Square if you want to be totally accurate, I believe) was closing. Or, rather, had already closed — last week in fact. Mourning a Howard Johnson’s in the middle of tourist central might not seem like the most New YorkContinue reading “CRAP, I FORGOT AND MISSED IT: FAREWELL HOJO”

A couple months ago at Gothamist’s Laughable Hype show at Tonic, the hysterical Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel did a bit where they’ve renamed all the NYC neighborhoods. I don’t remember most of the new nicknames for all the various ‘hoods, but I do remember that the Lower East Side became “Go Fuck Yourself!” andContinue reading “TO A COUPLE OF THE MORE ANNOYING RESIDENTS OF MILFLAND”

Seeing a movie in Bryant Park can be one of the great NYC summer experiences. The screen is huge, the surrounding area of midtown is slightly shut out by the trees, and the chosen films are usually a pretty good selection. Of course, like anything in this city, having the best Bryant Park movie experienceContinue reading “A PERFECT MOVIE FOR UNDER THE STARS”

A couple weeks ago, Matty did something that seriously impressed the hell out of me. Well, I’ve been meaning to write about this since I did it on Saturday, but I came damn close to matching Matty’s majestic feat when this past Saturday I decided at relatively the last minute to do a 12-1/2 hour,Continue reading “ONE SHORT, BUT NOT ASHAMED”

They really don’t need hype from me, what with other sites giving them a big push, but in case you’ve been under a slightly small rock or don’t read any of the true music blogs out there, you really should know about World Leader Pretend, a band from New Orleans playing a free show tonightContinue reading “THIS IS NOT A MUSIC BLOG BUT … TONIGHT SEE WORLD LEADER PRETEND”

Wow. I had a pretty great weekend, and I meant to write about it today (since it was full of movies among other things …) but I didn’t get around to it. Instead, I find myself tonight saddened by the news from Hollywood that one of the greatest writers/screenwriters in history passed away on Saturday.Continue reading “R.I.P. ERNEST”

What? Who says it’s now July? Oh, the calendar. Big deal. As far as I’m concerned, this is still my June series of Gothamist Interviews, and today’s is a great one. Tony winner Bill Irwin, currently appearing in the great production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? now running at the Longacre Theater. I hadContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: JUNE DAY 5 — BILL IRWIN”

When I moved to New York in Oct. 1996, I knew basically nobody. I had one friend with whom I had worked in LA a few years earlier. We weren’t that close at the time, but I could legitimately call her friend. Then I knew this couple who were friends of another friend: the womanContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: JUNE DAY 4 – ROBIN I. SHANE”