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Archives for August 2009

A Cure for the Condos

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So the only way to sell condos these days and beat back that impending feeling of Condo Shame (noun; “a toxic combination of desire and repulsion toward reasonably priced postwar creature comforts.”) might be to put sweaty handprints all over the bathroom mirrors, so when the new buyers steam it up for the first time […]

Radiohead: Making Another Record Would "Kill Us"

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From The Guardian “None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again,” he said. “Not straight off … It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill […]

Town Hall Lunatics Getting Even Lunatic-ier

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Evidently, this lunatic is nowhere near where the president will be conducting his town hall address, but he is legally allowed to carry the pistol in New Hampshire. Live Free or Die indeed. Also worth noting: the gun-toting protester was holding a sign referencing the Jefferson quote: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from […]

Sports Bar, Bro

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Shawn Muholland, co-owner of Williamsburg’s lone sports bar Muholland’s, spoke with Gothamist about gettin’ drunk with hipsters, gettin’ drunk on Saturdays in the rain, and the one time he saw a drunk chick shit on a bar. It was packed, I mean you couldn’t move at all, and a female customer took a shit… while […]

Brooklyn's Urban Beekeepers

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from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Sometimes laws are meant to be broken. Meet a passionate crew of illegal urban beekeepers in Brooklyn, New York working on their very first honey harvest for their restaurants. Find out why raising bees on NYC rooftops is important for Mother Earth. And be inspired to get into the illegal “bees”ness […]

Lecture: Forbidden Playgrounds

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Tonight’s free lecture at Pete’s Candy Store is intriguing. From hidden subway tunnels to the tops of bridges, New York City is a playground of epic scale and drama. For the members of a growing class of urban thrill-seekers, the walls and fences that surround these jungle-gyms are as inviting as the velvet ropes outside […]

Bob Dylan Recording Christmas Album

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This can’t be a good idea. He might be the last person you’d expect to pull a stunt like this, but Billboard reports that Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album. The man is currently hard at work in Jackson Browne’s recording studio in Santa Monica, and he’s laid to wax at least four yuletide […]