NYC tabloid goes to town on Mamdani win with even a little Cyrillic abuse.(aka faux Cyrillic) Theme continues inside with headlines like “Mamdani Paints the town red” No boldface reference to Islam, however..

Happy Halloween!!

Upper West Side around Columbia oddly a bit of a desert for good food and just gets worst. Absolute bagels shuttered a few months ago and today Silver Moon Bakery is closing, driven out by a rent hike. Such a loss.

Happy New Year (of the snake.)

Nothing like a little Egypt and Nefertiti inspired art (at the Met) to make one think a return visit is long overdue.

I cannot help thinking that this might have something to do with it:

Ten years ago today, standing on the platform of Moskovsky Station in St. Petersburg, waiting to board the train to Moscow to start a new assignment. Feels like another dimension now.

President Biden met in SF with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya, the widow and daughter of the Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison colony. Biden pledged new sanctions against 500 targets. Navalny and his organization have long sought broader sanctions against Putin enablers.

Despite my love of all Mideastern food, I am not sure this qualifies….

NYC Marathon Day!