Here’s a peculiar phenomenon to ponder on; a dog aligns itself to the north-south axis with the earths magnetic field while defecating; according to the Frontiers In Zoology. The earths magnetic or geomagnetic field spans between the earths interior and the solar wind. Changes in the magnetic conditions can alter the dogs mood or state,… Read more »
Let’s get some definitions out of the way first: Gentrification is integration that you don’t like. Integration is gentrification that benefits you. Filmmaker Spike Lee made news when he complained about the gentrification of Brooklyn recently, decrying the efforts of white interlopers to “bogart” black cultural enclaves like his native Fort Greene. But Lee suffers… Read more »
Welcome to my vaudeville. A pencil driven farce designed to extract you from the battlefield of routine. (It’s not a pencil, it’s a weapon!) Persistently refusing to confront reality is Patricia Smith as beautifully illustrated in Mapper, her show at the Front Room Gallery in Williamsburg. (Sh-Sh-Shame on you, Brooklyn Zoooooo!!!) She has been wondering the… Read more »
This month marks my 60th year as a New Yorker, and I still find new and interesting things everywhere I go in all five boroughs. To celebrate the city, to thank my friends, this month my storytelling show is free on me. I’m giving away stuff, too. “City Stories: Stoops to Nuts,” Tuesday, March 11… Read more »
WRITE ON NEW YORK Everyone needs a great website. Ladies-of-the-night in the Midwood section of Brooklyn are proud of their pages, thanks to an English professor. I shall call him Spencer. He is sixty-something with distinguished brow and short-cropped gray hair. Tenured at a city university, he comes to Brooklyn to teach the classics. One… Read more »
Strip clubs are like fire houses and auto repair shops. No one wants to live next to one, but everyone is happy one is there when they need it. Here in New York City, strip clubs have been regulated nearly to death, and the bell tolls for many of the survivors today. According to the… Read more »
In the bustle of New York City, tucked away in the charming neighborhood North of Little Italy (Nolita), nestled between the posh boutiques beneath the trees outstretching their limbs over Elizabeth Street is a neat, little storefront with a large sign declaring “Moe’s Meat Market.” Years ago, Moe’s had been a meat market. In fact,… Read more »
Fundamental vs Technical Analysis, two stock-picking methodologies riveting in contrast; yet both parties are pursuing the same objectives, to capitalize on their equity. Fundamental analysis allows us to have an overall long-term perspective of a company’s intrinsic value regardless of its unpredictability; whereas, Technical analysis studies chart activity and other various scenarios based of statistical… Read more »
Last Saturday’s The Art of Hair event turned out to be a great success. Hundreds of people walked through the decorated bodega over the course of the night. It was an ever-changing group of consistently interesting people who all seemed to be engrossed in the spirit of the event. Barbers. led by the Nomad Barber… Read more »
Today was a day. The universe is boundless, therefore everything has happened at least once before, therefore everything is possible. That was my first impression from Out of Hand. This avant-garde plastic show is like philosophical fireworks, a lodestone for geeks and entrepreneurs alike. Witness the digital fabrication of our world. From reality to the… Read more »
