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My Weirdest July Fourth Ever
In October 2012, I was riding with some friends upstate when I rounded a blind curve on a farm-country, tertiary road and my 700 pound…
Hollow Silence from the Benghazi Party
It’s Day 162 of the Coronavirus epidemic in the US. Covid-19 was first diagnosed in the US on Jan 20, 2020 — ironically, exactly one…
The Best Commencement Speech Ever
I’ve followed Victor Wooten‘s career for years, since he began working with the improbably banjo-based jazz fusion band, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. There are…
Smoking hot salsa: Anacaona
Okay, I’m told that technically it’s more timba than salsa. Timba is a Cuban variant. Timba is identified by a few (debatably relevant) attributes like…
The Disappearing Brooklyn Stoop
Brownstoner posted a terrific, in-depth article about something topically relevant to this site. But it’s also something that I’ve noticed all over NYC since the early…
What will $9 million get me in Brooklyn?
What’s the most expensive/least affordable city in America? Most people would answer San Francisco because of all the tech money or Honolulu because, well, who…