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 […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)
There are some artists who announce themselves so forcefully, so brightly, with such power and grace; at these moments,…
August 6, 2014Sometimes – so very rarely – a piece of music journalism is exactly right; it reveals something new about…
August 5, 2014Listen to Episode 40: Get Your Kink On With Bastard Keith (And Constable Teasebottom) Download From iTunes Here In this episode: Bastard Keith and The Bartender get personal about kinks, his sexual journey and awakenings, and the best way to deal with a heckler. Also, we cover “water sports”, creative one-night stands, new ways to describe various sex […]
(via Tell The Bartender)
Born of punk rock’s rough and red womb, weaned at the rubbery leatherette teat of punk rock, wiped and…
August 4, 2014Call me benighted. Not in my secondary schooling, at a New England prep school that had recently gone co-ed,…
August 1, 2014MTV is 33 years old today. If you’re under 30, you likely have no identification of that brand name…
August 1, 2014So what would you do if some creep grabbed you as you walked up the subway stairs? One Redditor recently had that problem and posted her account.
What would you do? Discuss after the jump.
July 31, 2014This past Tuesday was the 100th Birthday of (the still very much alive) Professor Irwin Corey, a true artist,…
July 31, 2014Recently, Tim Broun, whom I’ve known since we were both teenagers, asked me to contribute a playlist to his…
July 30, 2014