Bruce Springsteen meets Woody Allen. I take the examined and active life together, thank you very much, balancing left brain with right, contemplation with spontaneity, rock with Bach. History, philosophy, whiskey, cycling, and ideas all turn me on.

I got my M.A. in History last year, and while I plan on returning to Grad School, right now I have a few gigs. I mainly work for the Museum of the City of New York and a progressive nonprofit, Civworld. Outside of that I spend my time writing for online magazines, leading walking tours of the city, meeting up with folks, and basically enjoying my life thus far.

Taking you to amazing places in the city you never imagined could exist.

Appreciating

Thinking, doing, and communicating

Debating and discussing various arcana

Bon Mots

Dancing the Twist, the Madison, and the Frug

- my height

Books: top three books - Without Feathers by Woody Allen, The Power Broker by Robert Caro, and Art and Experience by John Dewey. Also, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Other fave authors include: Nabakov, Whitman, Woolf, Bellows, Franzen, Auden, Jarrell.

Movies: Dramas, indies, and documentaries. Here's a smattering: This is Spinal Tap, Fargo, Children of Men, Ric Burn's New York, Gimme Shelter, Ran, and Chinatown.

Music: Music is quite important to me, and my tastes are rather eclectic. Depending on the time and place you'll find me savoring classical (I'm a huge fan of Bach, as before mentioned), bopping to dirty 60's soul (Jr. Walker and the All-Stars), or winding down with a bit of classic country (Buck Owens and the Buckaroos).

Food: Anything spicy and savory I adore. Indian, Mexican, American, Japanese, Korean.

TV Shows: Mad Men, Girls, Arrested Development, Ken Burnsey-stuff, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Whose line is it anyway (both English and American versions - I'm sorry, I happen to enjoy the hoedowns),

Visual Artists (why not?) : Northern Renaissance, Expressionism, and Realism. Gustav Klimt, Kadinsky, John Sloan, and Bruegal rank highly.

1. Art
2. Travel
3. Laughter
4. Horn sections
5. My awesome friends
6. A capacity for wonder
7. Freedom!

How great that building looks in the sunset

What new food to try

Civil Society, Democracy, and Public Space

How we come to think what we think, and believe what we believe

My next dance move

Usually out with friends in some kind of revelry.

There's a video of me dressed as a 1920s golfer dancing to Daft Punk on the R train. It's on youtube.

You place equal value on intelligence and passion.

You are genuine, have a sense of humor, and get geekily excited about whatever interests and moves you.

You enjoy spending afternoons dreamily browsing bookstores and museums, or walking slowly through a park.

You dance whenever you damn well please.