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Summer '08 live music schedules
Celebrate Brooklyn
7/11 Brazilian Girls; 7/12 Beth Orton; 7/19 Enter the Dragon; 8/2 Ezra Jack Keats; 8/3 Africa Fete incl Habib Koite; 8/8 Lila Downs; 8/9 Hal Willner Bill Withers Project
Central Park Summerstage
7/6 U-Roy, Afrika Bambaataa, and Seun Kuti; 7/10 The Harder They Come; 7/12 Julieta Venegas/Plastilina Mosh; 7/20 Santogold/Diplo; 7/ ( Read more... ) -
Returning to the intersection of Union Square + urban disasters
Because clearly we learned NOTHING from the giant ice pop fiasco--some new internet media company decided to give out free money in Union Square yesterday.
"Make it rain!" and "Give me my money!" passersby shouted as the clock ticked down to the scheduled 2:29 p.m.* publicity stunt. And then there was a riot/beatdown/abscontion** with loot ( Read more... ) -
OMG BKNY STFU
Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? People are coming in from all over. In fact, the physical act of moving your possessions from Manhattan to Brooklyn is now the equivalent of a two-year M.F.A. program. When you get to the other side, they hand you three Moleskine notebooks and a copy of “ ( Read more... ) -
boring yet potentially useful
Text of a scam e-mail I got from a friend today:
I am sorry i didn't inform you about my travelling to Africa ( Read more... ) -
Summer Music '07
If anyone was counting on me for this post, apologies for letting you down and stuff. As you may know summer (free) music in NYC is one of my favorite things about living here. This is my catchall post of all the concert series I personally know about.
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Ron Rosenbaum on Tom Junod on Angelina Jolie
The Worst Celebrity Profile Ever Written?
A meretriciousness that reaches a peak in the final column of the story, when we finally get the Angelina Jolie-as-victim theory that at last ties together Angelina, 9/11, the suffering of the wretched of the earth, and the analogous suffering of celebrities. It is a rule of the Celebrity Profile that ( Read more... )