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-
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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 -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Vini Reilly
Sometimes – so very rarely – a piece of music journalism is exactly right; it reveals something new about…
August 5, 2014 -
Tell the Bartender Episode 40: Get Your Kink On With Bastard Keith (And Constable Teasebottom)
Listen 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 […]
August 4, 2014
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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 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club, “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville
Call me benighted. Not in my secondary schooling, at a New England prep school that had recently gone co-ed,…
August 1, 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 -
#DepthsofHell: Woman Has Ankle Grabbed by Perv as She Walks Up Subway Stairs
So 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, 2014 -
The Honeymooners, Professor Irwin Corey, and more idiocy at The New York Times — what more could you ask for?
This past Tuesday was the 100th Birthday of (the still very much alive) Professor Irwin Corey, a true artist,…
July 31, 2014