Author Archives: glowinski

Beats For Your Week – Bobby Womack

Posted on June 28, 2014

We here at Across 106th Street have to show our respect and love for the great Bobby Womack who died on Friday, June 27, 2014. We hope that Womack knew how much his music meant to so many people around … Continue reading →

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Baseball Fever – Dodger Stadium

Posted on May 20, 2013

We here at 106th Street are always excited when April 1 rings in the start of baseball season. Thankfully, the Boys of Summer return each year to bring us hours and hours of our favorite slow, methodical sport that seems … Continue reading →

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The Glory Days of Los Angeles Movie Houses

Posted on March 3, 2013

With the 2013 Oscars hoopla behind us, the 106th Streeters were reminded of our recent trip to Los Angeles. On this road trip we spent a day and night tramping all over Downtown L. A., stumbling onto building after building … Continue reading →

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Beats For Your Week – Happy Mardi Gras!

Posted on February 12, 2013

There is no place else the 106thstreeters wish they could be on Mardi Gras Day than in New Orleans. Damn! what is up with those ticket prices to NOLA from NYC?!? Though we here at 106th Street know that New … Continue reading →

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Beats For Your Week – Antônio Carlos Jobim

Posted on January 25, 2013

Like the rest of the city, we here at 106th Street are chilled to our bones. Who and what better to warm you to your core than the music of the great, handsome, prolific, and unimaginably talented musician and composer … Continue reading →

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Beats For Your Week – Max Roach (Happy Birthday!)

Posted on January 10, 2013

The 106thstreeters can think of no better way to get our New Year beats on than with the exquisite rhythms of drummer, percussionist, composer and musician extraordinaire, Max Roach. As it is also his birthday today (he would have been … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ – Vancouver, BC

Posted on November 16, 2012

The 106thstreeters met up this past September in one of our favorite cities, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As Vancouver is one of the first cities we traveled to together way back when, this city holds a lot of meaning for … Continue reading →

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Stranger in a Strange Land – the Flora of Orange County, California

Posted on August 8, 2012

  Turns out, living for a year without a car in Southern California is not so much an adventure as it is just a pain-in-the-ass.  Public transportation is kind of an option if you want to travel 4 miles to … Continue reading →

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Backstreet Cultural Museum (Tremé) – “They don’t do this nowhere else but in New Orleans”

Posted on June 5, 2012

Fi Yi Yi, Wild Magnolias, Creole Wild West, Congo Nation, Wild Tchoupitoulas, Black Seminoles, 9th Ward Hunters, 7th Ward Hard Headers, Flaming Arrows, Black Eagles, White Eagles, Red Hawks Hunters, Golden Comanche, Wild Bogacheeta… New Orleans is home to one … Continue reading →

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Beats For Your Week – Jorge Ben…Feliz aniversário!

Posted on March 22, 2012

Here at 106th Street, there is always music. From the men outside the bodega near Lex and 107th playing congas, to the guy blasting music from his apartment somewhere mid-way on 105th so it carries across White Playground way uptown, … Continue reading →

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