The New York Times is Idiotic, AGAIN, and It Gives Me an Excuse to Rave About Echo & The Bunnymen
Dear New York Times: Once upon a time, when we wore Adidas, watched Melba Tolliver, were confused by the…
August 20, 2014-
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The Solution to All Our Problems: Not Your Average Goat and Your Average Goat
There is a great beauty in confusion. The seemingly random assembly of events, geometry, words, sounds, forms, colors, and…
August 15, 2014 -
German Art Group Takes Credit for Brooklyn Bridge White Flag Stunt
Two German artists are taking credit for last month’s Brooklyn Bridge flag swap. Heck, it was all a tribute…
August 12, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The City and the City” A Novel by China Miéville
A young woman murdered, her body dumped at the edge of a park in the poor part of town.…
August 8, 2014 -
My Life As A Child News Junkie Climaxed 40 Years Ago Tonight
As children, we are awed and entertained by dinosaurs because they have a scale and size incomprehensible to us,…
August 8, 2014 -
Letter to a Young Alternative Rock Fan
Dear Layne: Most of my personal myth seems to refer to events that took place in the early 1980s. …
August 7, 2014 -
Elizabeth Gaffney, at BHS, Reads, Talks About Bygone Brooklyn Heights
Novelist and Brooklyn Heights resident Elizabeth Gaffney was at the Brooklyn Historical Society yesterday evening to read from her second novel, When the World Was Young, on the date of its publication by Random House. She read two segments of the novel. The first told how a physician forced to give up her career because […]
August 6, 2014
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I Turned Down A Date With Morrissey
There are some artists who announce themselves so forcefully, so brightly, with such power and grace; at these moments,…
August 6, 2014 -
Market Correction
Born of punk rock’s rough and red womb, weaned at the rubbery leatherette teat of punk rock, wiped and…
August 4, 2014 -
Happy Birthday, MTV!…plus, Stoner Metal!
MTV is 33 years old today. If you’re under 30, you likely have no identification of that brand name…
August 1, 2014