Bronx Matters

02/05/2024

Looking for something to do this weekend? There's a ton of creative happenings going on Bronxwide. Check out my newsletter. Web address is at bottom of this flier. (Linking stuff kind of hides my posts from readers.)

25/04/2024

Latest edition of my newsletter — Art All Around Us — which focuses on the creative happenings going on in the Bronx and a bit beyond.

19/04/2024

While I don't post on my Bronx Matters blog anymore, I use this page to share Art All Around Us newsletter (link in comments), about creative happenings in the Bronx and a bit beyond. (Link in comments below.) Photo is Caesar the Poet who will perform at the Bronx Beer Hall tonight along with other bands and a dance crew. From 6 to 8 PM.

12/04/2024

There's really a ton of cool, creative stuff going on this weekend and all week throughout the Bronx. It's not a special weekend or anything. It's just what's happening all around us all the darn time. Here's my weekly newsletter (link below) with as much as I could get on the page with the time I had. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do. (It's accessible to all but to keep it going I need those that can afford it to become paid subscribers. Thanks!)

29/03/2024

If you're looking for something cool to do this weekend, check out latest edition of "Art All Around Us," my weekly newsletter about creative happenings going on in the Bronx and a bit beyod! Link below!

28/03/2024

Latest weekly edition of my "Art All Around Us" newsletter, about creative stuff going on in the Bronx and a bit beyond.

... all expressed in the Bronx and a bit beyond

07/03/2024

Latest newsletter of arts of all kinds in the Bronx and a bit beyond ....

... that and art, photography, music happenings, and opportunities for artists!

29/02/2024

If you're looking for something cool to in the Bronx, check out my weekly Substack newsletter — Art All Around Us. Link below

15/02/2024

I do a weekly Bronx arts newsletter via Substack now called "Art All Around Us." Check it out:

Let’s start with where you can find this Romare Bearden painting and much more … There’s an excellent museum in north Riverdale by the Hudson River called the Derfner Judaica Museum, which is at the Hebrew Home for the Aged. There are often solo exhibits — in addition to their ongoing exhibi...

02/02/2024

Hey Everyone, I now publish a weekly newsletter on Substack called Art All Around Us about creative stuff going on throughout the Bronx and lower Westchester. You can find the latest edition right here:

Exhibits, Concerts, Dance Performances, Free Art-Making and Much More ...

01/12/2022

Bronx Children's Museum Open on Tuesday. More info here:

This coming Tuesday, the long awaited Bronx Children’s Museum will finally be open! Check out their ticket reservation page for reserving free tix for a limited time. The museum is at 725 Ext…

03/03/2022

Almost 30 years after first writing about the Kingsbridge Armory's potential redevelopment, I went at it again thanks to failure of the crew that got city approval to build 9 ice hockey rinks there. That was in 2012. Zilch has happened since. Read more at City Limits opinion link below.

22/01/2022

https://bronxmatters.com/2022/01/22/riverdale-artists-online-opening-tomorrow-sun-1-23/

Gallery 505, a Bronx art gallery in Riverdale, hosts an online exhibit opening tomorrow, June 23, for the local artist Doris Cordero. It’s from 4 to 5 p.m. The Gallery, led by Kingsbridge Riv…

06/01/2022

Just posted on my blog (link below) about Bronxite Colleen Kelly's testimony to Congress regarding Guantanamo. Her brother was killed on 9/11 at World Trade Center and she co-founded the group Peaceful Tomorrows.

Jan. 6, 2022 — Colleen Kelly is a long-time Bronx resident and nurse practitioner. A sister of Bill Ford, who was killed while visiting the World Trade Center for a meeting on Sept. 11, Kelly testi…

15/12/2021

Community Board 8 meeting tonight on daylighting Tibbetts Brook, which more than a little linked to the disaster on the Deegan after Hurricane Ida.
https://bronxmatters.com/2021/12/15/tibbetts-brook-needs-daylighting/

Dec. 15, 2021 — If you missed the New York Times article last week about Tibbetts Brook, mostly covered over in Van Cortlandt Park a century ago, and the efforts for it to be daylighted, you can ch…

28/02/2021

My latest post (and first in quite a while) on my Bronx Matters blog about an excellent and intense exhibit at the Bronx Museum (link below).