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Recent Posts:

  • The Thursday Store, and a Dream
  • Born to Pasta
  • What a Stranger in the Family Ate
  • Nunzio
  • Type? Writer.
  • Queer Cutlets at Judy’s Cafe
  • Bent, or Give That Boy a Hand
  • Nobel Prize: Sweet!
  • Clarion
  • An -ing Life
  • Beans in My Closet
  • Breakfast With Bill
  • Juice, Tomato
  • Kosher Becomes Croissant
  • No Picture This Time, at the New Year
  • Not Celery
  • Stalker
  • Cold, Dead White
  • The Good Knife
  • Yeast Never Dies
  • My Particular Beef
  • Your Last Supper?
  • Iceberg, Melting
  • Do You Recall Matthew Shepard?
  • I Hate Burritos
  • Licking Our Plate
  • Tab Hunter, 1931-2018
  • Three Tall Teachers
  • The Big Crack
  • Salt-and-Pepper Grindr, or Shaker Heights
  • Dinner at Eighty
  • Artichokes, Hearts
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Boeuf
  • Bug, Trapped
  • A Shroom With a View
  • Fireflies Are Out …
  • Kapusta!
  • Why I Love BJ’s, Part 2 — Basket Case
  • It’s My Bag
  • Finding My Chowder — Part 2
  • Finding My Chowder — Part 1
  • Cooking Alone
  • Potato Bravo
  • ‘Dirt Always Wins’ (Part Six) — Conclusion
  • ‘Dirt Always Wins’ (Part Five) — Pay Dirt
  • ‘Dirt Always Wins’ (Part Four) — Master of Alconox
  • ‘Dirt Always Wins’ (Part Three) — The White Goddess
  • Seahawks Sweat-Soda (a Partial Repost)
  • “Dirt Always Wins” — A Story, Part Two
  • “Dirt Always Wins” — A Story in Six Parts
  • Pasta Vazool: The Conclusion
  • Vazool
  • What Cooking and Writing Have in Common
  • Learning To Cook: Frittata
  • Can Tweets Save Letters? The Postcard Solution
  • A Repost Re: Photographer Milton Rogovin
  • Frankenthaler Reminder (Tag: ‘Right-Wing’)
  • Learning To Cook: Meatloaf
  • More About Old Menus
  • Menu Time-Travel
  • The Google Ghost in the Window
  • Occupy My Wallet?
  • Ciao! Ray’s Pizza Bows Out
  • Writing: My 9/11 Time Machine
  • Storm Food, or Why Beefaroni Matters
  • Facebook Writes a Piece for Me
  • Will Bert and Ernie Ever Eat Zabar’s ‘Lobster’ Salad?
  • MoMA Raises Price Again, Slits Own Throat Again
  • George Lang Had an Answer
  • I Never Cooked for My Father
  • Newspaper Fate
  • Applause! Applause?
  • Getting Pickled: My Brine Cocktail Comeuppance
  • Oh, You Can’t Scare Me …
  • Condiment Time-Travel
  • Milton Rogovin: ‘The Rich Have Their Own Photographers’
  • Susannah York, ‘Tom Jones,’ JFK, ‘Killing of Sister George’
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  • Why Donuts Are Like Sex, Plus a Letter From Jackie Robinson
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Jeff Weinstein

Based in New York, I've been an editor of arts coverage at New York's "Soho Weekly News" (1977-79); of visual arts and architecture criticism and much else at the "Village Voice" (1981-95, with a stint as managing editor of "Artforum"); of the fine arts at the "Philadelphia Inquirer" (1997-2006); of arts and culture at "Bloomberg News" (2006-07). Until recently... Read More…

Out There

The media make a potentially fatal mistake by dividing arts coverage into high and low, old and young, and by trivializing our passionate attraction to things. In Out There I propose that all creative expression has the potential to be both … [Read More...]

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Recently & Elsewhere

I wrote and narrated a Daylight Magazine slideshow (click on "Read more" below to access it and the rest), an appreciation of the late photographer Milton Rogovin. Also one about the late photographer Helen Levitt. To go back in time, kindly click … [Read More...]

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Recent Comments

  • Jeff Weinstein on The Thursday Store, and a Dream: “And a happy one to you, Elizabeth. Funny that those Catskill eggs didn’t smash.” Dec 31, 14:28
  • Elizabeth Zimmer on The Thursday Store, and a Dream: “I love the tone of this. My grandmother was a farmer in the Catskills. She’ sold eggs, and would mail…” Dec 31, 08:26
  • Jeff Weinstein on The Thursday Store, and a Dream: “Hope I see you too. Thanks!” Dec 31, 02:46
  • Carol Felsenthal on The Thursday Store, and a Dream: “There’s something to be said for staying awhile; for watching the evolution of a neighborhood, from the same building, same…” Dec 30, 18:23
  • Meredith Brody on The Thursday Store, and a Dream: “Such a lovely piece, dear Jeff Weinstein. Such a great picture. I’m overwhelmed by memories. Hope that you and your…” Dec 30, 15:43
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