Wacko Jacko Heart Attacko!
Was anyone else miffed this week when the Daily News and Post both decided to miss the opportunity to use the above headline? For rags with absolutely no principles, this was the worst possible time to pretend to have principles. After all, these are the folks who brought us these gems…
It’s been a week. We’ve had some time to reflect on Michael Jackson’s death and how it relates to our lives and childhoods. After a failed karaoke tribute Saturday night, we’re still trying to find some way to reminisce and pay homage to the King of Pop. Here are some of our favorite links:
Jef Castro likes photography, film and comics. He also likes mofongo. Find out what he’s working on and where to check out 27 different kinds of mofongo.
Name: Jef Castro
Occupation: Associate Photo Editor (Entertainment Weekly)/Artist
Borough/Neighborhood: Manhattan/Inwood
It's all cucumbers to me ...
I’ve always been amazed at the words that come out of my four year old, JT’s, mouth and I’m not just talking about words like poop or stupid. Ever since my son, at justh eight months old, looked at my German Shepard and said Dawg I’ve known that this was a critter who would ”want to be a radio when I grow up” just like I did.
Even my babysitter caught on, calling him her Little Publicist; watching as he rode down the street in his stroller greeting everyone he passed in our Carroll Garden’s neighborhood. Jojo (his 16 month old sister) is following in his social footsteps. Just don’t get too close … she doesn’t like people IN her stroller! Still, her favorite word is “Hi!”
It was about a week ago at the grocery store when what came out of JT’s mouth put me into a tailspin.
Tags:child, daughter, Dora The Explorer, grocery shopping, mom, parenting, son, speaking spanish
Welcome to Ashley (WTA) will be performing tonight (June 30th) at The Lit Lounge at 8:30pm.
It’s a great night to see some live music for only $6!
You can check out their music and videos on their MySpace page. Some of our favorite songs are “Nothing But Gray Skies Ahead” and “Thursday Afternoon.”
The Lit Lounge is located at 93 2nd Ave at 5th St in the East Village.
Enjoy!
Tags:East Village Music, Music, New York City, Welcome to Ashley, WTA
I think it must be something to do with the natural opiates that are released when working out, but when doing cardio., I often have these insights that have something to do with molecular biology, physics and human nature. Hope you enjoy them.
Tags:crystaline, culture, freedom, hierarchy, narcicism, revelation, science, self concern, Spirituality, structure, Workout
DIA Art Foundation presents “Tuesdays on the Terrace,” a series of outdoor events at the Hispanic Society of America’s Audubon Terrace
If you visit tonight at 7pm, you can experience, “The Collection of Silence,” a project by Eileen Myles.
The Collection of Silence, a baroque site-specific work around the possibilities of silence as central to the syntax and punctuation of everyday life. A diverse group of poets will present short pieces at various locations on the outdoor plaza of Audubon Terrace, where they will be joined by a group of students from PS4. Also accompanied by dancers, Buddhists, an opera singer, and a life drawing class, this mute and active gathering will demonstrate and celebrate the collective power of silence and the capacity of an unvoiced poem to serve the communal purposes of public life. Participants include poets Charles Bernstein, Stephanie Gray, Tim Liu, Monica De la Torre, and Rachel Zolf, Christine Hou, and Julie Patton, dancer-choreographer Christine Elmo, The Village Zendo, and soprano Juliana Snapper. The silent texts will be available in a bilingual edition at the performance.
Tags:Art, Audubon Terrace, Collection of Silence, DIA, Eileen Myles, Hispanic Society, poetry, PS 4, Tuesdays on the Terrace
Okay, okay. I know what you are thinking. Harper’s Island is a TV show that looks like utter crap and is on air currently, how can it be written up under Friday Night In? Well, hold on to your breeches and hear me out.
Harper’s Island is CBS’s new endeavor to bring slasher films into the world of cheesy pop culture television. And in doing
so CBS has brought back meaning to the words Guilty Pleasure. The show surrounds a group of family and friends who head to a destination wedding off the coast of Seattle. The official website describes the show in their own words as “although they’ve come to laugh and to love, what they don’t know is they’ve also come…to die.” Bloody brilliant. Literally.
If you have yet to check out this great venue in Brooklyn, go this Saturday June 27th, when Winkel and Balktick, the two masterminds of the citiy’s most outlandish underground parties, are throwing a crazy party. They are inviting you to descend upon BKLYN Yard… dressed up like the mutants that must surely live in the nearby waterway.
It will be an afternoon of the great outdoors, picnicking, campfires, trees, swimming pools, music, dancing, performance, art and amour! Several performers will be featured including the Xylopholks and DJs Small Change, Joro Boro, Dhundee, performances by Groovehoops and more entertainment TBA!
It will be a great opportunity to bust out your Halloween costumes –come as an undersea love mutant, or ambassador of humanity’s remaining freak population. Or wear nothing and get bodypainted by friendly mutants.
ALL AGES! Kids with parents are free!
Full cash bar. Please, no outside booze.
2pm - 9pm
FREE before 4pm, $7 after!
Aside from the fashion, food, music, and comedy blogs I follow; I also read personal finance blogs. Frugal Zeitgeist paid off her mortgage for her NYC apartment in SIX years and inspires me to live within my means (my collection of shoes and bags will attest otherwise). She shares some tips and some favorite eats around the city.
Name: Frugal Zeitgeist
Occupation: Shadowy anonymous personal finance blogger
Borough/Neighborhood: Manhattan-wide
