Due to the construction at White Plains Road and Pelham Parkway the traditional Menorah and Christmas Tree have been relocated this year to the corner of Pelham Parkway and Williamsbridge Road at the Peace Plaza. On hand for the Menorah […]

Wednesday night the White Plains Road Business Improvement District lit the holiday lights that spread over White Plains Road from Lydig Avenue north to Pelham Parkway.  Holiday lights were also put on Lydig Avenue from Holland Avenue east to White […]

WHAT:          Send-off of relief supplies for Honduran victims of Hurricane Eta to Honduras, departure of tractor trailer to shipping location   WHEN:          Saturday, December 12, 2020 10 AM   WHERE:       Hall of Fame Gate                         Bronx Community College, Hall of Fame Terrace Bronx, NY […]

Kamehameha V (1830) After Kamehameha V succeeded his brother as king of Hawaii in 1863, he tried to restore the old tribal ways. He proclaimed a new constitution that restored power to the monarch, weakened the legislature, and restricted suffrage. He even refused to allow the sale of alcohol. Under his reign, the influence of American missionaries waned rapidly. On his 42nd birthday, he died without an heir, bringing the Kamehameha dynasty to an end. How did Mark Twain describe the king during his stay in Hawaii? More…

Enthusiasm, n.: A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)  

natter Definition: (verb) Talk socially without exchanging too much information. Synonyms: chew the fat, chitchat, claver, confab, chat, jaw, shoot the breeze, confabulate, gossip, chaffer, chatter, visit Usage: My teenage daughter can natter on the phone for hours. Discuss.

Christmas Tree Lightings in Pelham Bay and Allerton In Pelham Bay there was a tree lighting with Councilman Mark Gjonaj, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, and some local community members at Keane Square Park located at the corner of Hobart and Buhre […]

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717) The son of a German cobbler, Winckelmann overcame years of hardship to pursue his love of ancient Greek art, becoming a renowned scholar and one of the founders of scientific archaeology and art history. He spent much of his later life studying in the vast Vatican Library, and his writings reawakened the popular taste for Classical art and helped spur the Neoclassical movement. In 1768, a fellow traveler—who did not know who Winckelmann was—murdered him at a hotel, ostensibly for what reason? More…

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them again, “Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone.” Francis Bacon (1561-1626) onx c

inexpugnable Definition: (adjective) Incapable of being overcome, challenged, or refuted. Synonyms: impregnable Usage: I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion. Discuss.

Diego Rivera (1886) Rivera was a Mexican mural painter. In Europe, he was influenced by the paintings of El Greco and Goya and closely associated with Cézanne and Picasso. Convinced that his art belonged to the populace and should be displayed in public spaces, he returned to Mexico in 1921 and painted, with the assistance of younger artists, large murals dealing with the life, history, and social problems of Mexico. He later completed several murals in the US. Rivera was twice married to what famous artist? More…

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. Willa Cather (1873-1947)