The Villager: From the Cliffs to L.E.S., an urban fish story

Andrew Castrucci / The Villager / Aug 14, 2017 | No Comments

I grew up on the lower Hudson River. I fished the piers from Hoboken and Edgewater to under the G.W.B. Andrew Castrucci with a keeper striped bass that he caught in the East River. Fishing the Hudson River since I was 12 years old, I caught thousands of eels, hundreds of tommycods, shad, perch, snapper […]

A Gathering of the Tribes: NOTE TO SELF: ON THE EXHIBITION “AND ONE MORE THING”

Andrea Scrima / A Gathering of the Tribes / Aug 14, 2017 | No Comments

When does dawn occur: when the first bird makes itself heard; when the sun rises above the horizon? Or when the lights of the Empire State Building are turned off? While a wry humor underlies many of Walter Sipser’s drawings, this effort to pinpoint what is essentially amorphous becomes a poignant conceit that carries throughout […]