Category Archives: NEW YORK

GRAY VINYL LP RELEASE PARTY

January 18, 2013 – 1:29 pm

In 1979 New York was an open city for artists and the greatest rising star of the downtown scene was Jean-Michel Basquiat. The iconic grafittist branched out from painting to form GRAY, a noise band with friends Shannon Dawson, Michael Holman, Nick Taylor, Wayne Clifford and Vincent Gallo. They played at Max’s, Tier 3, CBGB, […]

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Chance Encounters of a Presidential Kind

January 17, 2013 – 12:46 pm

Presidents run in high circles with world leaders, government officials, senators, financiers. Most Americans will never meet their President. The layers of security are supposedly impenetrable with a phalanx of Secret Service agents preventing any unauthorized encounters, but the screen around Barack Obama failed at a state dinner in 2009, when two party-crashers gained access […]

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Wabbits Of The NYPD

January 16, 2013 – 2:54 pm

A secret organization in the USA government is in pursuit of an escaped mutant rabbit. They finally corral the beast in a suburban woods, but it’s impossible to catch him, because he’s so fast. The intelligence organization sends out an offer of $10,000,000 bounty for its capture. Within hours the CIA, FBI, and NYPD show […]

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The Truth About Whores

January 6, 2013 – 6:44 pm

“Beware of whores that don’t want money. The Hell they don’t. What they mean is that they want more money.” William Burroughs. Several years ago I had occasion to visit the Elk Gallery on Crosby Street. Jocko Weyland was curating a photography exhibition of lurid bloody vistas of wild Italian youth. Punk, guns, and drugs […]

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THE REUNION OF BAD BOYS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2013 – 10:38 am

Two years ago I passed a long Thursday at the diamond exchange. Manny was worried about money and Richie Boy showed up late and shikkah or drunk. His father checked his watch. It was a little before noon. They argued the rest of the day about business and family. I stayed out of it and […]

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