Celebrating Community
As we embark on the seventh month of living through the coronavirus pandemic, houses of worship have continued to be there for their worshippers through virtual prayer and support. In mid-March, they were forced to physically close across the City, being forced to hold remote services for its congregants, instead. Though services were allowed to take place in person with […]
David Lynch is a problem. A big one. David Lynch is a problem because he doesn’t punish his villains. He’s a problem because he doesn’t explain the motivations of his villains or even so much as resolve his stories. David Lynch is a problem because he won’t tell us what to think of him. Storytellers runs the risk of being […]
In my teens, I remember going to the movie theatre to watch ATL, Rapper TI was at the time, nearing the height of his pop culture presence. I had a crush on Lauren London who played TI’s love interest, Nunu – a standard infatuation for many boys at the time, and now (as she is still fine). ATL was my […]
The biggest surprise about Patrick Higgins’ 2015 record Bachanalia was how straight he played it. Maybe best known as a guitarist for the experimental trance group Zs, Higgins approached a variety of Bach’s works for solo strings and keyboard on their own terms, adapting them to his instrument without trying to repurpose or contextualize. It’s that part of Higgins’ head […]
Frustrated as we are the almost complete irrelevance of our vote in the Presidential race to the ultimate result, the desire of Brownstone Brooklyn voters to at least send a complete up and down the ballot repudiation to the GOP in its entirety has been cleverly frustrated by the Brooklyn GOP’s decision not to run candidates. Local Republicans in my […]