It’s an opportunity for individuals and organizations and people of all walks of life to draw a line in the sand and say no” to more offshore oil drilling. Now is the time to start taking control of our energy future and not leaving it to the oil industry to decide it for us.” ~Rauschkolb, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Acclaimed Black filmmaker/director Spike Lee has teamed up with Absolute vodka to design their latest limited edition bottle. The bottle depicts a Brooklyn brownstone with the number from Lee’s childhood home in Cobble Hill along with his name. The vodka is apple and ginger flavored. That and the fancy packaging will cost you about Be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A low response rate could have very serious consequences for our city – for each person who is not counted in the census, the city loses about $3,000 in federal aid every year, money that could be spent on services our communities all want and need.†~NYC mayor Mayor Bloomberg Less than 50% of Brooklyn […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Supa Nova Slom has recently released a new book called The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body If the name sounds familiar maybe it’s because this Brooklynite’s mother is the holistic health practitioner Queen Afua and best-selling author of Sacred Woman and Heal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: “5th Avenue” by Tracy Collins The jobless rate in the United States for October has hit 10.2%. For some reason people are only just now deciding to calculate the number of unemployed persons working part time jobs who would rather be working fulltime jobs and those who have given up on looking for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gigi Bio’s “PRISMS ON BUSHWICK” From the album: “PHOTO JUXTAPOSITIONS”< reminds me of my environment, the city I love. The hard angles remind me of the urban landscape while the curve and flow flow recall the dynamic and energy of the city that never sleeps. Gotta love the graffiti too. As a Black person from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Untitled (2005), photo on russian baltic birch multi-ply plywood, 72″x48″, corporate headquarters, Vitamin Water. I got the opportunity to throw some questions out at artist Josh Goldstein about his art, his love of New York City and a major theme in his work, NYC’s local convenience stores- bodegas. Madam Toussaint: The economy is effecting our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
