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NYC
Hockey Night in Brooklyn
Last Friday, I went with some friends to Floyd Bennett Field to watch Brooklyn’s New York Aviators take to the ice against the Long Island Stingrays. I’m going to rely on Wikipedia’s entry on the North East Professional Hockey League — to which the Aviators are/were affiliated — to explain some of the context here:
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NYC
The Morning Bell
These days, my cellphone serves as my primary alarm clock. (It’s one of three, down from a peak of four alarm clocks a few years ago.) Lately, I’ve been trying to change up the sound that the alarm feature plays. The results have been surreal, and I thought I’d share some of them here. So: [...]
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Music, NYC, The Thursday Agitation
The Thursday Agitation: Tracy Wilson
One of the highlights, for me, of my zine-editor days came when I found myself in the basement of Brownies circa 2000, moderating a conversation between Tracy Wilson and Caithlin De Marrais. At the time, De Marrais was making music as one-third of Rainer Maria, while Wilson’s band Souvenir had begun playing shows around [...]
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Music, NYC
recommended music writing: 23 march 2009
1. For Tiny Mix Tapes: Emilie Friedlander on Rhys Chatham. More specifically, the piece concerns a revival of Chatham’s collaboration with choreographer Karole Armitage, Drastic Classicism, and takes a tone that’s alternately historical, analytical, and occasionally bewildered:
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Music, NYC
notes on press coverage + leaks
02.27.09 | Permalink | 7 CommentsFollowing today’s earlier J.T. Ramsay shout-out, I’m once again linking his site, this time regarding his most recent post on release dates and press coverage, in which he argues for coverage more centered around an album’s leak date. More specifically, I’m responding to this section:
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NYC, People
Holidays in the Outer Boroughs
We had the first snowfall of any significance in Brooklyn late last week. I spent most of the latter part of last week as well as this weekend holed up in my apartmen, under the weather and trying to wrap up a few long-term projects before heading back to the ancestral home in central Jersey [...]
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NYC, People
pre-thanksgiving reading: 1
In which the Washington Square News interviews the esteemed Heather Muse on the culture of celebrity gossip.
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Live, Music, NYC, Review, Uncategorized
Live: Frida Hyvönen; Church of Sweden, 11.12.08
Attendance, the flyer said, would be capped at 90. I’d guess that the chapel in New York’s Church of Sweden — on 48th Street just off Fifth Avenue, unobtrusive among financial offices and gleaming glass hotels — seated 75 at most, and a few songs into her set, Frida Hyvönen suggested that those standing come [...]
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NYC, Politics
post-election: north brooklyn election night arrests
I’ve been meaning to post something here about the post-election arrests, which included a friend of mine, in northern Brooklyn since yesterday, but haven’t really been sure of what to say. Gothamist’s coverage has been solid, and their update on it today is well worth a read. (Also worth reading on the subject: New York [...]
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NYC, Politics
voting: greenpoint, brooklyn; november 4, 2008
I’ve voted in four Presidential elections now. The first of those — 1996 — occurred when I was in college, and I cast my vote via absentee ballot. I’ve voted in the three since then in the same polling place in Greenpoint, which is where I arrived today at a little before 8 am.
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NYC
notes on urban spaces
This weekend, I finally took advantage of Open House New York, visiting both Marble Cemeteries along with my friends Molly and Jake. Each of them was a small rectangle of green, occupying roughly the footprint of a small tenement building. And each of them felt (appropriately) quiet — a marked contrast to the busier [...]
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NYC, People
upstate, this weekend
Watching good friends get married in a lakefront town that I’d (oddly enough) gotten lost in during a road trip to Montreal five years before. Beautiful scenery and amazing people; can’t really argue with that as as way to spend a weekend.
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Live, Music, NYC, Review
live: becky stark, harper simon, human highway; cake shop, 09.15.08
So hey, Cake Shop. Tropical wallpaper stretching for a dozen feet as you approach the stage, hanging red garlands and tiny white lights dangling amidst soundproofing foam. It’s become one of my favorite places to see shows in New York — actually, given that I once saw Daphne Brooks read from her book on Jeff [...]
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Live, Music, NYC, Review, Uncategorized
live: pigeons, air bombay, pretty & nice; pianos; 09.05.08
Pianos on a Friday night is a strange place to be. The bar portion, which one has to traverse in order to get to the venue in the back, was on this particular night full of well-dressed, well-off types making loud conversation. The actual performance space, which had added a bar since the last time [...]
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Food, NYC, brooklyn
brooklyn eating: eat records
On Saturday, I went along with friends to Greenpoint’s Eat Records. A friend of mine recently took over running their kitchen, and I was curious to see what the new setup was like. The last time I’d been there, the balance between cafe and record store was much more significantly in favor of the latter. [...]
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Tobias Carroll lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has covered music and books for a number of publications, and his fiction has appeared in THE2NDHAND, 3:AM, Word Riot, and as part of Featherproof Books' "Light Reading" series. He is presently working on multiple projects of varying lengths.
