Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bronx, Crime, Crown Heights, Downtown, Manhattan, Prospect Heights, Queens, Sports, The Dodgers, Transportation, politics on May 31st, 2010
Hi. My name if Rutherford B. Trace, and I’m the new editor of this weblog. I beg pardon from the ongoing series Frederick Douglass In Brooklyn, which I will soon continue, to implore, beseech, encourage and even— in some cases— command all ya’ll who can get near Grand Army Plaza Tuesday June 1 to see the Internets [...]
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Posted in Bay Ridge, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Crime, Jazz, Latino, Literature, Music, Poetry, Red Hook, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, Subways, The Dodgers, labor on Sep 20th, 2009
As soon as they got in the door the guy grabbed her ass. Goddamnit, cant youwait, pushing him away. She staggered and leaned against the wall, the guy leaning over her kissing her neck as she yanked open a closet door looking for a bottle, then slammed it shut when no bottle could be found. [...]
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Posted in All-City, Crime, Crown Heights, Downtown, Dumbo, Flatbush, Irish, Manhattan, Navy Yard, Sex, Sports, The Dodgers, The Food Writer, Vinegar Hill on Sep 3rd, 2009
Post-apocalyptic? No. This is an apocalyptic posting! Like the smoldering heap of boundary stones marking novelist Jim Knipfel’s Park Slope Liebestod; like Combat Jack’s review of Brendan I. Koerner’s Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight From Greatest Manhunt of World War II, which sounds a lot more interesting than those rightly wary of [...]
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I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train… Young, good looking, crew cut Ivy [...]
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Posted in All-City, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Flicks, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Park Slope, Poetry, The Dodgers on Jul 14th, 2009
Or, Memoirs of a Shy Nornographer
And poor old Homer blind, blind as a bat
Ear, ear for the sea-surge, murmur of old-men’s voices:
“Let her go back to the ships,
Back among Grecian faces, lest evil come on our own
Evil and further evil, and a curse cursed upon our children
Moves, yes, she moves like a goddess… “
—Ezra Pound, [...]
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This isn’t funny so try not to laugh: Flyers festoon the walls, lampposts, electrical boxes and kiosks of downtown Athens, GA, where the the pollen is also abundant. At first I thought this was a goof— wait, wait, Bandita was stolen?! But that’s because my Spanish is rusty and in fact, bandita is not a [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bed-Stuy, Boro Park, Crime, Flatbush, Flicks, Irish, Manhattan, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Music, Queens, Rockaways, Sex, Subways, The Dodgers, The Food Writer, Transportation, politics on Mar 15th, 2009
Chistine Haughney of the Times recently took the long ride (from pretty much everywhere but Marine Park and Broad Channel) out to Beach 116th Street in Rockaway and found it rather wanting. This is not a surprise. If, for aesthetic reasons, I happen to love that Rockaway isn’t boomtown, there are lots of Radio Days [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Greenpoint, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Poetry, Prospect Heights, Queens, Sex, Sports, The Dodgers, Transportation, West Indian, Williamsburg, hip-hop, politics on Feb 13th, 2009
If someone says to me “You wanna work a good room?” Yes, there are good rooms: the editorial room at DallasPenn.com, Combat Jack’s Today’s Mathematics, Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten New York, Justine Carroll’s Greenpointers (blowing minds at Oasis Roller World in Ridgewood)— those are good rooms, but certainly not the Copa over this, or this, or [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, East Flatbush, East New York, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Jazz, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Music, New Lots, South Brooklyn, The Dodgers, West Indian, graffiti, hip-hop, politics on Dec 27th, 2008
Armond White is a funny guy. That Armond’s excellent sense of humor isn’t often noted when people discuss his criticism doesn’t make his wit any less bracing. Of course, I don’t agree with everything Armond asserts— who could?— but still, it’s always strongly—sometimes strangely— argued, challenging and reverential of a life of the mind. As [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Bronx, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Flicks, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Marine Park, Music, Southern Thing, Sports, Subways, The Dodgers, West Indian, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on Sep 23rd, 2008
OR, EAST NEW YORK TEST MATCH
by Caz Dolowicz. Let’s keep this light, or at least not swerve unto our real feeling about Yankee Stadium (fuck it), George or Hank Steinbrenner (fuck them) or Rudy Giuliani, Mike Bloomberg and most of the City Council— fuck all ya’ll, hard, & without satisfying release for giving away public [...]
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