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Nuyorican Poetry Slam Finals

In Events, culture, poetry, writers on 2 February 2008 with no comments

The Nuyorican Poetry Cafe is always a good time and a requisite for anyone living in New York City. Its the place where a lot of the best and the brightest of the city have started their careers and its been a dream of mine forever to read on their stage (it will […]

BBC Teaches French

In culture, france, french on 15 January 2008 with 2 comments

So I’m trying to find a cheap and easy way to pick up a little french. It doesn’t have to be conversational as honestly I wonder how conversational you can be after studying a language for 3 months, but I’d like to be at the very least be able to feel like I’m trying. There […]

Reading Too Much Makes the Brain Soft

In culture on 15 January 2008 with no comments

The NY Times has a fantastic article about the times when other forms of media hadn’t been introduced and people worried about the negative effects of reading to much:
We’re not the first generation to invest reading with miraculous powers. But until radio and television dethroned the book, social reformers worried about too much reading, not […]

Mudita and the Pursuit of Happiness

In Events, culture, personal, philosophy, writers on 5 January 2008 with 1 comment

This past week I met a buddhist writer and the founder of a meditation center, named James Baraz. We talked casually about writing with all the distractions from modern technology and he encouraged me to come to a talk he was giving at the NY Insight Center about “Awakening Joy” a course that he […]

One more…

In books, culture on 19 December 2007 with 1 comment

…before I get to work
5Oh7 and I were having a conversation on reading and finding time in to read all the things you want to take on in our hectic overburden with distraction, modern age. She sent me this excerpt and link to a New Yorker article which I greatly enjoyed reading (I do […]

I Pose for Kara Walker

In art, culture, personal on 18 December 2007 with 1 comment

When I was in college at the New School I wrote a paper on Kara Walker, the prolific and controversial artist whose work my teacher took me to see at the Brooklyn Museum. I was deeply fascinated by her images then, as I am now and I recently went to see her new show at […]

Things

In Events, culture on 26 November 2007 with no comments

This weekend, December 1st and 2nd, is the Small Press Book Fair at “The New York Center for Independent Publishing” (formerly the Small Press Center). I went a few years back and hope to go again. Whether I go or not depends on my inherent weekend laziness and how much time I spend with a […]

The Hipster Extravaganza

In Events, Music, culture on 5 October 2007 with no comments

The live artist I tend to enjoy the most are the ones that I happen to stumble upon, somehow, accidentally. Maybe while wandering into a bar for a drink (how I first heard Ryan Scott or Melody Gardot) or as opening acts for other bands.
On Wednesday my friend and I went to Peter Hadar’s “Hipster […]

Understanding "Love Jones"**

In culture, film on 12 September 2007 with 3 comments

Last night a group of my friends, who were slightly older than I, began to talk about the movie “Love Jones” staring Nia Long and Larenz Tate. What struck me as interesting about the conversation was not their love for the movie, which I also love, but the ways in which it shaped their ideas […]