I'll be talking neon this Wednesday night (December 5, 2012) at Bowne & Co. Stationers , down at the South Street Seaport.  The talk...

As a rule, I like to keep these blog posts a bit more substantive than simple ledger entries of media mentions.  This week, however, finds m...

This week I busied myself taking care of something that's been on my to-do list for a long time: a lecture (or "talk", ...

For all their prominence as landmarks, old signs are frail and ephemeral things in the end.  Hurricane Sandy reminded us of this last week, ...

Hurricane Sandy has nixed this year's Halloween Parade, darkened neon all over town and destroyed one of the city's best historic...

Something about the Blockheads sign on Second Avenue and East 50th Street doesn't seem quite right.  It looks like an old sign.  But ...