Shmuel Rosner died last Friday night. He was almost a hundred years old. My phone buzzed with the news on Saturday night, when I was in New York en route to Washington, and my instinctive reaction was ...

Even as a writer by trade who came of age in more than a couple of sketchy yet musical Queens basements myself, it is a daunting task for me to attempt to describe the average Rosedale cellar of the ...