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Saturn Returns is Second Puberty, 29.4 Years Now Marks True Adulthood 15 Aug 2013 | 12:27 am
Do you happen to remember, or are you current aware, of how obnoxious, angsty or sad everyone is between the ages of 27 and 30ish? Could it be their Saturn returns phase? It seems like, well, if 70 is...
The Grand Bar and Grill is the House that Hardcore Built 31 Jul 2013 | 04:58 pm
“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, ...
From the New Museum to the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Art is Life is Art 13 Jul 2013 | 12:17 am
Life = art = life. So many people in public view these days do something akin to performance art – from Facebook to the mainstream media – where they enmesh truth in fiction in a supremely ironic way...
An Open Letter to Gilbert Gottfried and the Wall Street Journal on “Brooklyn Before the Hipsters” 6 Jul 2013 | 09:57 pm
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 D...
A Comprehensive Guide to Sort of Stop the Internet From Maybe Knowing Things About You 4 Jul 2013 | 09:03 pm
The nice thing about digital problems is that there is usually a digital solution; you just need to care enough to find it. In the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal some people have asked how I ge...
Kanye West Doesn’t Care About All Women 30 Jun 2013 | 07:47 pm
“I just think he’s an idiot, he’s just a waste, he’s a toolbox. And you know what, he’s getting exactly what he wants right now because people are talking about him.” That is a quote about Kanye West...
NY versus LA Three Point Oh? 20 Jun 2013 | 02:41 am
A treatise on the state of the coastal culture rivalries after a few trips back and forth these last few years. I'm going to get it for this one.
Curators of Creative Control, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is Building an Informal Peer Economy 19 Jun 2013 | 12:09 am
The Brooklyn Filmmaker's Collective, or BFC, was founded by filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine. It's now a five-year-old informal but tightly knit group of about fifty local filmmakers who ...
The NSA Leaks and How the Media We Consume Will Consume Us 14 Jun 2013 | 11:40 pm
“There’s a search box and they own it and we put our dreams in it and they eat them,” said Columbia Law professor Eben Moglen in a lecture called “Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media” at the 2012 r...
From NYU to Silent Barn Radical Women Turn To Discussions of ‘What Now?’ 31 May 2013 | 10:44 pm
On May 29, 2013 there were two back-to-back panel discussions, one in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, which drew two different crowds of artists, feminists and leftists. To my knowledge, only two people a...
