Celebrating Community
Li-Lac Chocolates is an old time chocolate maker, operating in Greenwich Village since 1923. They made a celebrated expansion to Sunset Park’s Industry City a few years ago. I visited them on a rainy Thursday morning in January, in anticipation of their busy season of February 14. When I got there, they were prepping and making chocolate cherry cordials. Master […]
On February 15th, Abby Hertz will be presenting her final LUST event. After three years, she is ending the series that has fused music, fire performance, art history, and eroticism. Begun on Valentine’s Day 2015, it has more of a nod to Meret Oppenheim’s 1959 “Cannibal Feast” than to an erotic party. While guests eat a feast of food off […]
As online streaming becomes the dominant method of listening to music, the sale of physical units has plummeted with one exception: vinyl records. The once nearly abandoned record has made a surprising comeback as the only growth sector for the music industry, and today is a billion-dollar business with 40 million units sold in 2017. While still a niche market […]
The Dr. Who themed space redefines the bar experience with events curated to a nerdy clientele. The Way Station, located in Prospect Heights, certainly offers a healthy variety of traditional bar activities: it’s the Prospect Heights’ venue for Geeks Who Drink, the national trivia company where losers who can’t free up RAM in their brains for more useful knowledge get […]
In late 2017, at 347 Henry Street, construction began on 5 River Park, the first of four planned high-rises by developer Fortis Property Group that will soon loom over the Cobble Hill Historic District. Designed by Romines Architecture, the building’s 15 stories will hold 25 condos, with an average price of $3.15 million per unit. Work will finish on the […]
Julián Castro, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) between 2014 and 2017, declared his presidential candidacy for 2020 on January 12, joining a rapidly growing field of indistinguishable centrist losers who’ll spend the next two years masquerading as bold progressives. His speech made use of Obama-style platitudes (“Brainpower is the new currency of success!”) while highlighting […]
The novelist Rachel Cline wrote the first page of what’s now described as a MeToo novel nine years before Christine Blasey-Ford testified. “At last everyone is seeing how ubiquitous this experience is,” Cline, who was born and raised in Brooklyn Heights, says. “It was a moment that had to happen and needs to continue to happen.” The good, painful, and ambiguous consequences […]
Led by Martin Phillipps, The Chills are one of New Zealand’s best-known indie rock bands and foundation of the famed ‘Dunedin Sound’ (cited as an influence by the likes of Pavement and R.E.M.). Starting-out out in the early 1980s on the Flying Nun label, the band achieved cult status in Europe and on US college radio, before being signed to […]
On February 16th, Colombian composer and sound artist Lucrecia Dalt will be giving her first U.S. performance since 2014 at Issue Project Room, in Downtown Brooklyn. Dalt calls on her training as a former geotechnical engineer to create hypnotic and poetic improvisations, fusing a sense of time and space, earth and breath. Sounding like something between Laurie Anderson and early […]