Posts from Seward Park Library

The teens from the Tompkins Square Library are an opinionated and passionate bunch and they made sure that some of their favorite books, music and movies made the Stuff for the Teen Age 2010 List!

Some of their picks:

Adventureland It is not only super funny but a good love story about a boy who meets a girl while working at a second rate amusement park circa 1988. It got a thumbs up from the Kristen Stewart fans as well 

Gleeks Rejoice!

The start of the new batch of episodes of "Glee" starts on April 13th. This is a moment 4 months in the making or 16 weeks or …oh, who am I kidding, I’m a theater geek not a math major and I just know that it has been a very long time since my favorite show was on.

Like me, have you been desperate to fill the "Glee" void? Have you been religiously watching the first half of the season on dvd? Is your ipod filled with the songs from the

Last night I made Orange-Molasses Sticky Pork with Blasted String Beans from Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs. Naturally, I was intrigued by the word blasted. Blasted is nothing but roasted, it turns out. They say even bad advertising works, and the proof is that I still made this dish.

I used salmon instead of pork -- anything that tastes good on pork also tastes good on salmon, friends. See also -- teriyaki, barbecue sauce, any kind of fruit glaze. This might have only to do with the sugar in 

The thing I love about music is how it gets into your DNA and becomes a part of you. Even now, I can remember songs from childhood, high school, college and beyond and know where I was and what I was doing when I heard them. For example, I remember listening to Madonna sing "Borderline" on the radio. I was home sick and bored and I thought that I never heard anyone like her before. Or "Slim Shady" by Eminem--I was working in Harlem, and wherever I went, that song was playing from radios, cars, and bodegas, and the posters for his first album were all over buildings. I