Red Hook with Michele Carlo

Spent the day Saturday at an Arts Fair in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I had never been to this place before, it's like a million miles from anything. On the map, it looks closer to Manhattan than it does to the closest subway stop in Brooklyn. I met Michele there because she had hired me to videotape her project she is doing for the Brooklyn Council on the Arts. If I can capture and edit that footage in time, it will be my PBNYC on YouTube for tomorrow. I'd put captions on the photos but Blogger has made that so incredibly time-consuming and difficult and annoying, plus it is already over 90 degrees today, so the pix will have to speak for themselves.

Afterward, Michele took me to buy me a Guinness at a little seaman's bar that dated back to the 1800's. Lots of very faded pix of naked ladies all over the walls.
These days they have art showings and bands playing in the back.
It's a very weird neighborhood -- thanks to Michele for showing me around!

Frank Wood Part 3

Peter Bernard's New York

I've begun a new educational series on YouTube called "Peter Bernard's New York." In it, I talk to interesting personalities from around town, and IN THEORY AT LEAST, I'd also do some "solo" episodes where I talk about stories from my own life. None of my stories so far seem as interesting to me as my guests', though, so we'll see about the solo episodes. I don't expect these to get many views in the beginning as I'm sort of coming out of left field with this, but as they begin to pile up, I'll create an index or search engine on my site so that people would be able to browse alphabetically by guest or subject, or search directly for the episodes they want to see. I'm trying to keep them under 5 minutes-ish, and I hope to get to everybody and everything eventually. If you have a good idea about some cool person or establishment or group of people in the City who are doing something which should be made note of, please forward any pertinent info to peter at peterbernard.com. Thanks!

Above is the premiere episode, featuring Jason Trachtenburg at the 4th Street Food Co-Op. An anti-health food wag described this one on Facebook as "Honey, I Shrunk The Supermarket!"


Above: the first of a series of episodes starring FRANK WOOD, legendary NYC rock show promoter. In this episode, Frank explains how he got even with punk rock star Johnny Thunders!


Above is our second trip to the 4th Street Food Co-Op, this time to talk to the lovely Claire and Dreamriver Press book publisher Theodore Poulis.

Coming Friday: Professor Tom performs Shakespeare AND opera-- all with his clothes on!

Monday: FRANK WOOD PART TWO!

After that: Angel Yau! The Rampler a/k/a Frank Edward Nora a/k/a "Ed 209!"
Mr. Creepo! Dino from Laughing Sky! Plus SURPRISE SPECIAL GUESTS!

Haha I'm not hyping this one as much as most of my things, I think it will eventually find it's audience once enough episodes have built up, and I think all the episodes will get decent views EVENTUALLY if not in the short term.