Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wild collision of generations: Weegee photographed the young Yayoi Kusama as she body-painted dots on one of the participants in a performance of hers, 1967. 050
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Trump-voting Second Amendment absolutists: "We need our guns for the day the government comes for us," "MOLON LABE," "you can pry it from my cold dead hands," etc. Also: "You should just comply when the feds show up" 042
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 04/07/2026PSA: If you’re walking to the west side to see the tall ships, @nypd.bsky.social is sharply limiting where you can cross West Street. I expected to go across at Hudson Yards and had to walk up ten blocks to 44th. 000
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Just think: We could have called it the "demiquinci" this time around 131
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026A unique and delightful remembrance of Gene Shalit—professional goofball and ideal mentor—by @kurtandersen.bsky.social. www.vulture.com/article/gene...vulture.comGene Shalit Was the Real ThingThe Today show’s goofball movie critic was my first boss — and the best one I’ll ever have. 140
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The streets in midtown sound like the inside of the Garden would have, if this game had been at home. Just roaring. Wow. 140
Reposted by Christopher BonanosRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts. 712451594
Reposted by Christopher BonanosSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 27/05/2026Truly and utterly grateful to @asjahq.bsky.social for awarding WITHOUT CONSENT its 2026 Biography/History Book Award. Thank you to the judges, and congrats to all the winners and finalists in the other book categories! www.asja.org/what-we-do/a... 10888
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Meaningless but evocative: Rex Reed died on John Simon's birthday. (There's a moment in Albert Brooks's 'Real Life' when he cites the two of them as the cruelest critics he has to contend with.) 061
Reposted by Christopher BonanosMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/04/2026One of the greatest of all production designers. Picture the streets of old Little Italy, Fredo and Michael in Cuba, the Tahoe lake house in Godfather Part II. Not to mention a dozen other Coppola films, and, of course, Bonnie and Clyde. RIP Dean Tavoularis. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...hollywoodreporter.comDean Tavoularis, Production Designer on the ‘Godfather’ Films and ‘Apocalypse Now,’ Dies at 93The Oscar winner and five-time nominee teamed with Francis Ford Coppola on 13 features after getting his start as the art director on 'Bonnie and Clyde.' 534491
Reposted by Christopher BonanosDaily News Union @nydnunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff. It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this. Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward? 27526161
Reposted by Christopher BonanosNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Pricing once free access? 🤔 To an economically significant asset/area? 👀 To pay for “rebuilding infrastructure”? 🔍 Increasing the cost of driving and potentially shifting people to transit or electrics? 🤯 4355
Reposted by Christopher BonanosVulture @vulture.com · 13/03/2026On Broadway now in ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ Daniel Radcliffe asks audience members to play supporting parts, including his love interest. The other night, I was the Chosen One.vulture.comDaniel Radcliffe and I Are Married NowOn Broadway now in ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ Daniel Radcliffe asks audience members to play supporting parts, including his love interest. The other night, I was the Chosen One. 0304
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Of course I asked them to dinner. How could I not? www.vulture.com/article/wall...vulture.comMy Lunch With Wallace Shawn and André GregoryThe old friends are still making their own kind of theater together, 50 years later. 56211
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 04/02/2026WaPo ownership: Actually some darkness is fine, even healthy, for democracy 020
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 30/01/2026She should've won an Oscar for this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...youtube.comMitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The RainbowYouTube video by mayhew7 000
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The greatest of imagine-if-Biden-had-said-this scenarios. (From Ben Terris's story at @nymag.com.) 043
Reposted by Christopher BonanosNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Going up. And also going down. Depending on the station. Good @heybonanos.bsky.social column -- www.curbed.com/article/subw...curbed.comYour Subway Station May Finally Get an ElevatorAt long last, funds from congestion pricing and a new approach have given the MTA’s efforts a major lift. 0171
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I had not planned to take the BMT while running errands today, but I guess they heard I was coming and put on an Arnine in case 040
Reposted by Christopher BonanosNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Reupping this again — www.curbed.com/article/subw...curbed.comCan We Design Our Way Out of the Subway-Surfing Crisis?New trains make it much harder to climb out and up, and that’s yet another reason to upgrade. 1368
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Trump likes people who win, especially if they start as underdogs, and Mandani did. And I bet he thinks he's commiserating with someone who has been treated unfairly in the press, because on the news sources Trump consumes (Fox etc.) Mamdani has been turned into a supervillain. 140
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 03/11/2025"Exododus": They got so excited about this poll at the Post that they're trembling at the keyboard 072
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Amazing AI work. (Not a word of this is accurate.) 080
Reposted by Christopher Bonanos◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Conservatives want to pitch the White House demolition as YIMBY. This is a bad-faith brain-dead take. You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes. You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.* www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | In defense of the White House ballroomDonald Trump vs. the NIMBYs 832654
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I took a walk around Revolutionary-era New York with Ken Burns, and managed to slip in a Julia Child quote that I had banked. www.curbed.com/article/ken-...curbed.comKen Burns at the BarricadesTalking British New York and PBS cuts with the co-director of The American Revolution. 040
Reposted by Christopher BonanosLindsay Goldwert @lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Well, it's finally a real thing! Our funny, helpful, NOT-just-about-freakin menopause book about getting to get what you want in your 40s and 50s, tentatively titled "Midseason Plot Twist!" (we've been through quite a few changes), will be out in Fall 2026! 4306
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I had an illuminating chat with one of the greatest photographers on earth. www.curbed.com/article/step...curbed.comStephen Shore After SchoolThe master of the American still life revisits the New York photographs he made as a teenager. 030
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 08/08/2025An observation: April Fool's Day fake-news stories, particularly the ones that went viral, do bad things to the AI database. 000
Reposted by Christopher BonanosEdward Russell @byerussell.com · 02/08/2025Call it the East Megawing, Trump's new ballroom is "the most on-the-nose embodiment of let-them-eat-cake Versailles extravagance — just as he throws old people off Medicare and kids off food stamp." via @heybonanos.bsky.socialcurbed.comTrump’s White House Ballroom Is a Neoclassical BludgeonAn overscale, reactionary solution to the question of where to host a big state dinner. 041
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 27/07/2025If you hear explosions of cursing and rage from midtown in the next three or four hours, know that I’m setting up a new printer. 000
Reposted by Christopher BonanosHelen Shaw @helenshaw.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.com 44211
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Watched this during a somewhat stressful trip, and it really was a mood-elevator. To use a Gondelmanian word, I cherished it. 3281
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 09/07/2025From Joseph Heller's (satire!) 'Catch-22': "Then there was the educated Texan…who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means—decent folk—should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk—people without means." 010
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Sightseeing in the cradle of democracy, looking at the ruins. Not at all a metaphor. 092
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 30/06/2025“Sophomoric mischief.” In college. When he was, give or take, an actual sophomore. Clearly he’ll never come back from this hit. 040
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Happy 99th birthday to this great American artist. 426966
Reposted by Christopher BonanosBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/06/2025"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Happy Lottery day to you and yours. 421158345
Reposted by Christopher BonanosNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 26/06/2025@heybonanos.bsky.social spoke to engineers and public officials about how New York City can survive increasingly extreme heat.curbed.comOn New York’s First 110-Degree Summer Day, What Will Break First?Asphalt like molasses, grounded planes at midday, sun-buckled railroad tracks: a sweat-inducing list. 011