Author Archives: Julianne

4:59 pm: There is currently a 10-foot-tall speakerbox at the end of my block. The DJ is playing Apache right now, but it’s a mix of contemporary snap music, dancehall, mid-90s R&B and classic hip hop – and just now, … Continue reading →

…so pre-Tanya Harding rich-titch “Natalie” spat at baby-faced and thoroughly crimped dancefloor sirens Shannen Doherty, Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. The trio, mischievous and contrarian, shat on Natalie’s super-sweet-16, in the form of … Continue reading →

Saturday is my block’s annual block party. According to Mister Frazier, my super / the mayor of said block, there will be an inflatable castle, a water slide, a BBQ, a DJ and a baby shower for the kid that … Continue reading →

The reports, the rhetoric, even the reviews linking Lil Wayne / Ja Rule’s alleged gun possession arrests and their music are conjectural and off base, and when you think about it – generally play on the same premise that fuel … Continue reading →

How a NYC make-up hub explains the demise of magazines: free shit. So I was in Sephora today (full disclosure: I felt stanky and was seeking a spritz) (Stella in Two: Amber – because I love a fragrance with an … Continue reading →

Ok, open-air bong hits might not be the best look when you’ve been scoped out and felt up by a cop on a steed. But seriously. Police were waiting to pounce. weez last nite at beacon. thanks to tiffany shepard … Continue reading →

holy fucking fucktown I accidentally left my alarm on this morning and hot 97 played this remix f. tallahassee pain which is how i woke up to r kelly transforming himself into “snappin jackson” claiming one more rung on the … Continue reading →

well, this was scary. exactly eight blocks away from the office. we walked calmly down all five flights. the whole block standing outside, the smoke was pluming up. people outside, yelling : run! run! run! a whole gang of folks … Continue reading →

Saltines crumbling, that is, not white people humping. Or maybe white people humping, too. Thinkin bout Will C’s all-country, all-the-time dictum, I downloaded some sex-love-and-aching-heart classics by that H-Town stunna, Barbara Mandrell (vague early ’80s memory: my tia Luce used … Continue reading →

= basically the only word I know in German. It’s phonetic, and it’s functional. Gotten me through some hard times on Berlin vacations. Not sure if “Floss” by German cirque du soleil rocksemble Mia (not MIA!) is a direct translation. … Continue reading →