It was an oddly apropos time to be thinking about “high” art and “low” art, which is what artist Doug Young and I discussed at…
Mikey’s Hookup Gets Hooked Up by the Williamsburg Apple Store
It seems silly now to imagine that some of us groused about the opening of a “Mini-Mall” in the Realform Girdle Building– it just seemed…
Kristin Dombek on to How to Write a Book About Narcissists Without Becoming One
Kristin Dombek’s legendary essay “How to Quit,” published in the winter 2013 edition of n+1, garnered heated word of mouth and praise from the likes of Brooklyn Magazine’s…
Nathaniel Kressen Promises You'll Look Cool Reading His New Novel on the Subway
The Craters of the Moon National Park in Idaho is a bleak, desolate landscape that reminds one how ineffectual words can be when describing a…
John Colapinto On the ‘Dangerous’ Literary Sex Novel That Put Him in the Eye of a Tweet Storm
John Colapinto has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008, and is responsible for this brilliant piece on used cooking oil theft, among others.…
Magical Mystery Tour: I Did Record Store Day On a Yellow School Bus
The yellow Blue Bird school bus creakily climbed the ascent of the Williamsburg Bridge, the vinyl seat was hot against my legs, the air from…
Trash Bar Owner Aaron Pierce On His New Bushwick Jazz Joint, The Rosemont
The Rosemont, the new one from Aaron Pierce of bygone Trash Bar, has soft-opened in anticipation of a grand opening in May. For those who remember the Trash Bar…
B+B Premiere: Dig This TAOTSS Video For "Bare Bones," Before their Album Drops at the Gutter
The first email I received about the new video for The Adventures of the Silver Spaceman (TAOTSS) from frontman Zachary James Ellis said something about a…
The 13 People You Meet On St. Marks Place, Per St. Marks Is Dead
Everyone has a St. Marks story — my first was smoking free hash after getting ripped off on bunk X. “And since the middle of the twentieth…
Judah Friedlander On His New Book and His Evolution From World Champ to World Champion
I was sitting in the Olive Tree Cafe, upstairs from the Comedy Cellar, flipping through Judah Friedlander’s new book. Largely single-panel cartoons, the book’s drawings run…