Urban Honking

If anyone wants to take over a HUGE 2-bedroom apt in park slope aug 15 or sept 1, 2 blcks from subway, 1 bl. from prospect park, $1800/mo, email julianneshepherd@yahoo.com. we are moving out and our landlord and neighbors are SO SO nice that we would like for someone to just take it over, rather […]

ebenezer. still in germany. still emailing. AND AS OF TONIGHT! every thursday, he is hosting a new world up-related Afrobeat house night: Tesao, a Movida, 28 7th ave south, w/ DJ Sid L’Vaga and DJ Sabo and Nappy G. while in berlin, eben SNAPPED A PHOTO OF THE O.G. COWBOYZ ‘N’ POODLES!, where jessica and […]

BROOKLYN, NY—Hold on to your hate, because the hottest friendship of the summer is about to hit your blogscreen… and it’s going on tour! Everyone’s been talking about two South Brooklyn authors, Marisa M. and Julianne S. They’ve been spotted calling each other several times a day “just to break from whatever they’re working on,” […]

So, I’ve been out of the blogging swing for a little while, but for a couple of good reasons. This week, it’s been the leadup and last minute scrambling to prep for PDX Pop Now! 2005. The festival starts tomorrow (I’ll be there at noon to decorate, but music won’t actually be played until 6:30pm) […]

MOBILE TIME: New York Civil Liberties Union rally against Pataki’s potential veto against emergency contraception, Thurs Aug 4, 5 pm, Third ave bt 40/41 in front of dude’s office. I mean, really, FILE UNDER WHAT THE Fing CRAP: In a conservative-appeasing, “I want to run for prez” complete 180 on past stance, Gov Pataki announced […]

The unsteady ramp from “’80s nuclear paranoia” to “Clintonian ‘new covenant’” is totally my shit right now. It is my shit in song form. It is my shit in real time. It is so my shit, in fact, that I have maybe become marginally insane. So 12,000 words at 18-pt type “times new roman” double […]

OMFG, if you are in the ST LOUIS MO area, please give Becky Smith, superstar of the next issue of Hit it Or Quit It, a job. She is funny and skeptical, but not necessarily cynical, and can write like a hurricane, and lives amazing lives and goes to pro-choice activism workshops. Those are her […]

Or–may we defer to Joan on this one?: “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again. […]