Subject: Staten Island

• Letters

  December 7, 2000

• Best Place to Get Organic Veggies

  October 18, 2001

• Studies in Crap Begs Your Help: 1946 School Autograph Book of Charles "Chick" Olsen

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.School Autograph Book of Charles "Chick" OlsenAuthor: The students of PS 30, RichmondDate: 1945-1946Discovered at: 2nd Chance Thrift, 63rd & TroostRepresentative Quote:"Dear Charles,Remember me until you see apples on a banana tree.Your sister grad-u-8Doris Guertler"

  March 5, 2009

• Mystery Solved! The Home of Chick, "The Duck" and Racist Johnny is ...

  Staten Island's PS 30!Just minutes after the most recent Studies in Crap post went up, intrepid reader (and celebrated improv comic) Josh Steinmetz had solved the mystery your Crap Archivist never quite managed to: Where was PS 30, Richmond, the school featured in this 1946 senior autograph book? The answer, as Steinmetz wrote in an e-mail: "Westerleigh School (PS 30) 'HOME OF THE DUCK!!!' 200 Wardwell Avenue Staten Island, Richmond County, NY 10314"Steinmetz used Google Maps to sea

  March 6, 2009

• Art Capsules

  September 11, 2008

• Art Caps

  August 28, 2008

• Art Caps

  August 21, 2008

• At the Nelson, Siah Armajani bridges cultural divides

  August 14, 2008

• Tax Guardians

  Readers come out strong against the Citadel project.

  January 17, 2008

• Bumpkins on Parade

  March 8, 2007

• London Fog

  Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy.

  July 27, 2006

• Doll Parts

  March 9, 2006

• Hip-hop, Year 2 A.J.

  December 29, 2005

• Picks and Pans

  Letters from the week of October 20, 2005

  October 20, 2005

• Heart Attack

  Serving up the best in R-rated breakup songs.

  July 1, 2004

• Ground Zero Hour

  A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on 9/11.

  January 9, 2003

• Do the Math

  The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

  August 8, 2002

• The Songs Remain the Same

  Oscar Sings the blues at Quality Hill Playhouse.

  April 5, 2001

• Pop goes the century

  Science City's PopMania gives viewers a look back to the past -- and perhaps a glimpse into the future.

  May 25, 2000

• Former Missouri Gov. Warren E. Hearnes dead at age 86

  Warren E. Hearnes​Missouri's first two-time governor, Warren E. Hearnes, died Sunday night at his home in Charleston. Hearnes, 86, served as governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1973, during the civil rights era and fought for -- and won -- more money for education and mental health services.More:Prime Buzz: Former Gov. Warren Hearnes dies at 86KMBC Channel 9: Former Missouri Gov. Hearnes dies at 86Southeast Missourian: Friends, foes, remember Hearnes at passingAssociated Press: Obituaries in the

  August 17, 2009

• When the national media was obsessed with Kansas

  ​One of the books on my summer reading list was Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858, by Wichita State University professor Craig Miner. I wanted to study up on area history, and Miner's research was interesting from a journalistic perspective, too.I never knew this, but for a few years in the 1850s, the national media was obsessed with Kansas. "Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials -- 4,500 in the New York Herald alone -- were published about Bleeding Kansas,"

  September 11, 2009