March 2010
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The Originals | Telfar Clemens - T Magazine Blog -... →
Red Hook-based designer makes use of the nabe’s “urban pirate” feel
February 2010
3 posts
The Brooklyn Paper: Call it the War of the Rosé!... →
It’s all-out wine war in Red Hook!
In a neighborhood once known only for bulletproof liquor stores, a just-opened upscale wine and spirits shop is attempting to sabotage the opening of a second high-end shop only two blocks away.
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PS I Love You, or How to Know When Urine Love
(I wrote this piece of juvenilia for a Bad Poetry Contest Reading I entered in college, which I won, which kind of defeated the point. At any rate, I was reminded of it recently and thought perhaps it was appropriate for Valentine’s Day.)
I thought of you while I was urinating As all those beers I’d drunk were evacuating And I heard the sounds of grunts and grating From a nearby boy...
The Arrangement | Flower Lessons in Red Hook - T... →
Sarah Ryhanen and Nicolette Owen discovered each other the way everyone does these days: online. Ryhanen owns Saipua, a flower shop in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where she also sells beautifully packaged soap made by her mother. (“Saipua” is Finnish for “soap.”) Owen runs her own Williamsburg-based flower biz focusing on private events
December 2009
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12 Tips For Holiday Book Buying: Give that... →
November 2009
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Incoming Concrete Plant Brings Dust Storm To Red... →
October 2009
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July 2009
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March 2009
4 posts
Six-Word Reviews of 1,302 SXSW Mp3s →
In anticipation of the South by Southwest music festival, which begins today in Austin, Texas, more than a thousand acts—almost twice as many as last year—offered an mp3 to showcase their sound. Once again, PAUL FORD listened to them all.
this is fantastic. well done, morning news!
this, from the houston chronicle. (probably came out of their book review budget.)
best moment: “if you want to meet a roper, you have to know what a horse looks like.” “HORSE.”
glenn beck, do you rock the eco-tote?
September 2008
19 posts