Since I'd been writing lyrics in the NY Times reader-comment section for a while, the Times asked me to write a "parody lyric" on the subject of the ArtsBeat column coming to an end after all these years.
It's at this link, towards the end of the article; you just have to scroll down a bit:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/
Noah Remnick interviewed me briefly for the NY Times' New York Today article Feb. 3 2016
(at the end of the column "And Finally" section)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/nyregion/new-york-today-landmarklimbo.html
It's at this link, towards the end of the article; you just have to scroll down a bit:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/
Noah Remnick interviewed me briefly for the NY Times' New York Today article Feb. 3 2016
(at the end of the column "And Finally" section)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/nyregion/new-york-today-landmarklimbo.html
And many thanks to Lin Manuel Miranda for his very generous shout-out on twitter, which was linked in the above Times items
https://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/669222699361771520