Author Archives: Ricky Lee

They Came From Brooklyn

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Ricky Lee

[ August 14, 2009; 8:00 pm; ]

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Please meet Mary Pearson and Rob Barber, of the globetrotting duo High Places, a Bedstuy-, and now Los Angeles-based ambient music band who’ll be part of the upcoming It Came from Brooklyn concert series celebrating the Guggenheim Museum of Art’s 50th [...]

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The Michael Jackson Effect

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Ricky Lee

lVintage Michael Jackson
Have you had your fill of all the never ending headline news about Michael Jackson yet? Well, don’t stop ’til you get enough! I’ve practically overdosed on all of the special reports, insider scoops, weepy tributes, and creepy $1.4 million memorials that have taken place since his death. Now, I’ve pressed the pause [...]

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My Corner of The World

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Ricky Lee

July 2009

Here is an iPhone view from where I sit, drink, think, eat, and sleep; my recently acquired home here in Southwest Bedford Stuyvesant. It is from this cozy vantage point that I gaze upon and watch the world and my new neighbors go by (pass me by?). I’m new here myself. New to the [...]

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