Horse’s Mouth Won’t Be Pigeonholed
>>> about the band Members: Tavo Carbone, 27 (voice, guitar); J.J. Beck, 25 (drums, glockenspiel, keys); Matthew Scott, 24 (bass, voice); Heather Sommerlad, 26 (violin, voice); Michael...
View ArticleTurn Cecil Grey’s Williamsburg Bar Party into Your Next House Party
MOVEMENT is a brand new monthly party at Loreley in Williamsburg. Veteran DJs Ayesha Adamo and Cecil Grey are on the decks all night on third Wednesdays. Their mix of Indie Dance, French House and Nu...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s Innovative and Independent Local Economy
At the Brooklyn Night Bazaar in Williamsburg this past weekend I was thrilled to check out all the DIY designs, live music and tasty and inventive snacks on hand (peppermint patty CAKE, omg). They’re...
View ArticleShe Keeps Bees Keeping it Independent in 2013
“Sharon’s pulling in the favors!” Jessica Larrabee jokingly cried over the phone from a Wheaton, Maryland number recently while her bandmate in She Keeps Bees, Andy LaPlant, and I listened. She was...
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Obsessed With Nature, Ryan James MacFarland Among First Artists at Upstate...
“My obsession is just with like, the mechanics of the earth,” the artist Ryan James MacFarland told me recently, standing in his apartment with test prints laid out all around us. “I’m obsessed with...
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Itziar Barrio Captures the Complexities of Authority and Art on Film
“I think a lot,” laughed the artist Itziar Barrio, stationed at the desk in her fifth floor studio at CSV (Clemente Soto Velez) on Suffolk Street in Manhattan. “That’s my job!” We were discussing her...
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An Open Letter to Gilbert Gottfried and the Wall Street Journal on “Brooklyn...
Dear Gilbert Gottfried and Editors of the Wall Street Journal, I’d like to take a minute to reply to your Wall Street Journal article “Brooklyn Before the Hipsters” on July 4th, 2013 – Independence...
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The Grand Bar and Grill is the House that Hardcore Built
“I was just like working as a bike messenger and saved a little money, and Jason was like, ‘I kinda wanna open a bar’ and I was like, ‘that sounds like fun,’” my friend Eric told me recently, adding,...
View ArticleA Lesson On How Sex Work has Gone Literary and Middle-class
Nola squints in the sunlight that has just spilled over the rooftops and illuminated Williamsburg’s McCarren Park in all its dewy spring splendor. Slipping her Chanel sunglasses down over her eyes, she...
View ArticleRent Control From Outer Space
Throughout the five-boroughs, the aliens leveled all apartments, condos, townhouses, brownstones, high-rises, and houses systematically with top-of the line laser death-rays. Afterward, new buildings...
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