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‘Us V. Them’ and The Battle for Brooklyn’s Indie Scene
In July 2014, I attended a festival hosted by the magazine I was interning for at the time, held at the second iteration of the all-ages event space Secret Project Robot. They called it “The Normcore of Summer Festivals” (were we ever so young?). Trace Mountains opened at noon; Mannequin Pussy took the stage at 3. I fanned myself with…
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LARAAJI’s Days of Radiance in Park Slope
In the remote corner of Gowanus that Public Records’ Sound Room occupies, LARAAJI lurked peacefully stage left while musician and sound healing facilitator Samer Ghadry prepped the crowd. Squished into the north side of the room, we made bird calls, shook our bodies and voices from side to side, and imitated gongs (low) and autoharps (high). “It’s the end of…
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Big Changes are On The Way for Outdoor Dining in NYC
Year-round outdoor dining in New York City appears to be on the verge of a comeback. That’s thanks to a new bill currently being deliberated by City Council that miraculously has the support of both Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The bill, sponsored by the borough’s own councilmember Lincoln Restler, would roll back the Eric Adams-era regulations and…
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The Bill That Could Seize Buildings from The Worst Landlords in NYC
Zohran Mamdani‘s war on negligent landlords is heating up. A few weeks back, the newly elected mayor launched his “Rental Ripoff” hearings to provide a forum for aggrieved tenants to air their most traumatic experiences as renters and direct them towards the appropriate city officials. But he isn’t waiting for the dust to settle to fire his next shot. Mamdani,…
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New Bill Would Set NYC Minimum Wage to Highest in The Country
On January 1, the “new” in New York City did a lot of lifting. It was, of course, the first day on the job for (then) newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s freshly raised minimum wage, courtesy of Governor Kathy Hochul and a statewide 2024 proposal that brought NYC’s lowest hourly rate to $17. The latter was the…
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A Musical Inspired by Luigi Mangione is The Hottest Ticket in NYC This Summer
The story of accused United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is hitting the stage in NYC this summer. And it’s already shaping up to be one of the hottest tickets in town. Aptly and tellingly titled Luigi: The Musical, the production is less inspired by the hard facts of a high-profile case still making its way to trial, and more…
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Seven Years In, The Fly Can Still Spice It Up
It was a grotesque Tuesday evening in the southwest corner of Bed-Stuy, barely March and still mired in the last frigid, visible exhale of Winter. It had been drizzling solidly, miserably all day, which extended into the evening, and dogshit colored ice drifts still clung stubbornly to the curb outside The Fly on the corner of Classon and Fulton, making…
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Open Kitchen: A Conversation with Alan Delgado of Los Burritos Juárez
Open Kitchen is a monthly interview column covering the joys and frustrations of Brooklyn restaurant operation in all its many forms. For March, we spoke to Alan Delgado, the chef and owner of Los Burritos Juárez. I had a religious experience a few months ago. I waited for the initial block-long lines to die down, then finally, on a weekend…
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The Black Rave is Alive and Well at Dweller
Zack Fox is convinced there’s a mass conspiracy to keep Black people from dancing. “If I really put my tin foil hat on,” he tells me over Zoom. “I would be 100% in agreement with a conspiracy theory that said there is a CIA-constructed plan to get Black people to move less, to dance less, to enjoy being outside less.”…
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Sick of The Snow in NYC? Well, Here Comes Some More.
It appears the most brutal New York City winter this side of De Blasio’s first term isn’t quite done dishing out its lashings. Barely dug out from its first blizzard in a decade, NYC is, somehow, expected to receive even more snow by the end of this week. Overnight on Tuesday, a weather system will bring somewhere between a dusting…
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