Category Archives: Arts-a-Poppin’

Special focus on the Visual Arts (or when I am being extra artsy with the camera) with a side hustle of nature photography

Looking Up in New York 2

Posted on August 16, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

The chin-up photo collection continues The “Looking up in New York” series continues. This is the second installment looking up in Manhattan, but you can catch me looking up in Brooklyn too. In fact, I have so many pics gathering … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged blue sky, building code, Central Park West, Columbus Circle, Empire State Building, flags, loop-hole, New York, oligarchs, photography, skyscraper, statue, sunset, traffic light | Leave a comment

Resurrection of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on August 10, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

He got him from a breeder in Vienna. And we’re back with the 15th installment of my own personal New Yorker cartoon captions. Having exhausted all possible biblical book titles, I must now cast about elsewhere for inspiration in naming … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup | Tagged camping, caption, cartoon, catamaran, dung beetle, Elephant, Game of Thrones, ghost story, hot dog, in the room, Iron Throne, kayak, New Yorker, Resurrection, sausage, snail, subway, Vienna | Leave a comment

The Picture is Locked

Posted on August 3, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

“The Raven – a musicabre” is completed I signed off on the final version and my editor Stolis Hadjicharalambous sent me the files – “The Raven – a musicabre”, the third is a series of Poe musicabres, short film musical … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged adaptation, classic, Edgar Allan Poe, Editor, musicabre, musical, poem, poster, short film, short story, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart | Leave a comment

COMPANY XIV’s PETIT ROUGE

Posted on July 27, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Company XIV are still at it. Eleven years ago I marveled at their cheeky blend of circus and burlesque, opera and pop, corsets and tassels when they presented Cinderella at the Minetta Lane in Manhattan. The company now has their … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On | Tagged Big Bad Wolf, Billie Eilish, brooklyn, burlesque, Can Can, cheesecake, Cinderella, Company XIV, corsets, fairy tale, Lady Gaga, Little Red Riding Hood, Lunch, Monster, Petit Rouge, tassels, Three Little Pigs, Wolves | Leave a comment

Looking Up in BROOKLYN

Posted on July 8, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

In conjunction with my “Looking Up in NYC” post (Part 2 for that forthcoming), I hereby post “Looking Up in Brooklyn”. And even though these pics capture the variety of Brooklyn visual splendor by looking up, I admit that maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 4th Avenue, 6th avenue, Bridge, brooklyn, brownstone, churches, Clouds, DUMBO, Fulton Street, Grand Army Plaza, magnolia, Manhattan, museum, ornamental pear, Park Slope, Rose, sky, spire, Spring, town house, tree blossom, Williamsburg Bank Tower | 1 Comment

PRIDE NYC 2026

Posted on June 29, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Video Diary of Watching and Marching in New York’s Pride Parade – with a special appearance of the Pride Puppy! Ed Elder and his Trophy Husband We arrived just at the 12pm start time, and thought the bikers were the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged 5th Avenue, Ariana DeBose, asexual, bisexual, Bowen Yang, cheer leaders, drag, hunk, LGBTQIA, marching band, New York, Parade, Pride, Puppy, Quakers, rainbow flag, trophy husband, Zohran Mamdani | Leave a comment

THE RAVEN at the REFLECTING POOL

Posted on June 25, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Footage of the the Memorial Waters before the Drumpfian Disaster Little did I know when I traveled to Washington D.C. last fall to shoot footage for my third musical short film Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Raven-a musicabre” that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged algae, D.C., Drumpf, Edgar Allan Poe, Felon-in-Chief, film, John Stewart, Lincoln Memorial, Michelle Cottle, mountain dew, musicabre, Poe, Reflecting Pool, short film, tear, The Raven, Trump, Washington | Leave a comment

Revelation of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on June 21, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Meanwhile that fool Hare is still waiting for his visa into the US. I suppose after 10 installments of my own personal New Yorker cartoon captions that took their title inspiration from the Old Testament, I suppose I should allow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism, Notes in the News | Tagged allemande, Book, caption, cartoon, chicken, cross the road, football, lab rat, little piggy, medieval, New Testament, New Yorker, Old Testament, proposal, receipt, restaurant, Revelation, running gag, shopping, siege, soccer, trebuchet, turtle, visa | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN PRIDE 2026

Posted on June 14, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Last night was Brooklyn Pride, just down the street from where we live in Park Slope. Two weeks before the big NYC march that goes down 5th Avenue in Manhattan, the Pride march that goes down 5th Avenue in Brooklyn … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged brooklyn, Cheer, Cheerleaders, Drew Warshaw, Dykes on Bikes, Edward Elder, Herstory Archives, Hetrick-Martin, Knicks, lesbian, Letitia James, marching band, Park Slope, Pride, Quakers, Queer, Queer Big Applecorps, schools | Leave a comment

MONET in VENICE

Posted on June 10, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Impressions from Last Winter’s Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum with close up details of those famous paint strokes

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Alice Monet, architecture, art, beauty, brooklyn, brush stroke, canal, Claude Monet, detail, enveloppe, Giverny, Harmony, Impressionism, light, Monet, museum, oil painting, Painting, Palazzo, reflections, Series Painting, Thomas Mann, Venice, water, Water Lilies | Leave a comment

Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Posted on June 2, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged baby carriage, bench, Bridge, brooklyn, Clouds, lawn, park, Prospect Park, rambles, sky, stream, stroller, trees, tunnel, underpass, woods | Leave a comment

AZALEAS!

Posted on May 12, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged Azaleas, backyard, beauty, blossoms, brooklyn, buds, flowers, glare, green, nature, photography, pink, shade, Spring, sun | Leave a comment

Wisdom of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on May 10, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

If it ain’t pastels, it don’t pass muster! This will be the last of the caption installments whose title is inspired by books of the Old Testament. Only the Catholic and Orthodox churches recognize Wisdom, the Protestants and Jews consider … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism, Notes in the News | Tagged art, Atlas, Book, Bunny, caption, card game, cartoon, Cheshire Cat, Contest, Easter, flute, Goldilocks, Lego, Moon, New Yorker, Old Testament, pastels, shark, stone age, weightlifting, wheel, Woodwinds | Leave a comment

CHERRY BLOSSOM EXPLOSION!

Posted on April 19, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

The Most Popular Weekend at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden The recent unseasonably warm and sunny days have led to an early explosion of the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and that is always its most popular attraction. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged alder, bloom, blossom, botanic, brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Burkwood, cherry, Ed Elder, Esplanade, Garden, lilac, mountain witch alder, peak, pink, smell, tree, tulip, viburnum, White | Leave a comment

Judges of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on April 12, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

It’s the midterms. And the series continues to mine the Old Testament for title inspiration, if not comical inspiration. So far the Judges of the New Yorker, be they the editors (at one time) or the public via on-line voting … Continue reading →

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Early Spring in Brooklyn

Posted on April 6, 2026 by dannyashkenasi

Ed and I enjoyed a sunny day in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend (that’s me above indulging in the sweet honey scent of the paper bush) and I took some pictures of the first blossoms of Spring. The entrance … Continue reading →

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