The New York City Health Department is hosting a design contest for condom packaging. Entries are due January 22nd.
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This year’s NYC Santacon is coming up - Saturday December 12. I’m actually considering taking part in the holiday spirit this year. It does sound fun.
Today, two master-butchers will be carving up a pig at the New Amsterdam Market at the site of the old Fulton Fish Market. For more on the growing popularity of learning the butchering trade as a hobby, check out this piece from this weekend’s NY TImes.
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke debuted his musical side project this weekend in LA. The band’s members include Nigel Godrich (long time Radiohead Producer) and bassist extraordinaire from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea. In addition to performing songs from his solo album, The Eraser, Yorke also shared some brand new material. See videos from the shows here.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank’s photo collection America. Images from the book, which is an iconic document of the nation in the 1950s will be on display until January 3.
I adore both Brooklyn and spicy foods. So why not celebrate both? The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Chili Pepper Fiesta takes place October 3 from noon to 6pm.
Nine Inch Nails have long been one of my very favorite bands. When it was announced that they would be playing a show at the Bowery Ballroom to a capacity crowd of 600, I had to find a way in. So I did. Having never done anything like this in my life, I have no idea what came over me when I crowd surfed during Head Like A Hole and landed on the stage. Unfortunately, this video misses that moment but it does capture the intensity that I experienced way up at the front during the whole show this past Saturday night. It was completely exhilarating to be able to take part in such a rare musical moment.
The message is in the music and the music is in the message. Brooklyn is a particularly special place in it that people from so many different places and walks of life live together here in real harmony. Nowhere could this be more obvious than at last night’s Burning Spear show at the Prospect Park bandshell. Also performing was Daptone Record’s Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens. The evening had me feeling so irie that I just had to say so.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Prince & The Revolution’s seminal album, Purple Rain. To celebrate this milestone a sing-along to the film inspired by the album will be held as part of the annual Celebrate Brooklyn summer concert series - Auguest 6, 7:30PM.
Dumpster-diving has a whole new connotation. An NYC based real estate developer is experimenting with how to utilize unused space in the city. He has rented a land plot adjacent to my neighborhood and outfitted it with a few swimming pools made from converted industrial dumpsters.
Jack White’s new project is called The Dead Weather. While White spends plenty of time singing alongside of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills), he also plays the role of drummer in this outfit. The band just released their first official music video for the single Treat Me Like Your Mother which was directed by modern day auteur, Jonathan Glazer. The band will be in NYC this week, where I will see them play to a sold out crowd at Terminal 5 on Friday evening. Get to know the band. Here they are in their own words participating in one of the most ridiculous music interviews ever.
For those creative folks that are concerned with making the world a better place, there is an upcoming conference for you called The Feast (Oct. 1st).
Perhaps you are ambivalent about social media networks. At the annual TED conference, Clay Shirky gave an interesting talk about how twitter and other social platforms have been utilized to overcome censorship and break news.
A retrospective of Francis Bacon’s work is currently on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 16. The show includes 130 works from worldwide collections.
Tomorrow marks the official opening of the first section to New York’s High Line Park. The project which has taken a long time to come to life, sees a large stretch of defunct raised subway tracks on Manhattan’s west side transformed into a one of a kind park.
Stephen Colbert will be guest editing the June 8th issue of Newsweek. This kind of reminds me of the time that Jon Stewart went onto Crossfire to tell the “journalists” that they were hurting our country (this event spelled the end of the program) or the fact that ex-SNL funny man Al Franken is still embattled over a Senatorial seat in Minnesota. Perhaps comedians have some of the best perspectives on news and politics because they also have a sense of humor.
The line-up for the 2009 Celebrate Brooklyn concert series at the Prospect Park Bandshell has be announced. This year’s free shows will include performances by Blonde Redhead, Burning Spear, and Big Daddy Kane. The season opening performance will feature David Byrne - Monday June 8 @ 8PM.
The BKLYN Yard on the Gowanus Canal is kicking off their season opening with an event today called Parked. Several of the cities best food truck vendors will be present. Earlier in the week. I eyed up the gourmet ice-cream truck and it looked rather fantastic. And I know for sure that the huarache vendor is drool worthy.
Though I’ve never attended the OFFF events, I really applaud the opening credit sequences that have been commissioned for the annual series. Here is work created for last year’s conference in NYC and here are the 09 Portugal titles. Also, these titles for F5 conference by Dvein are pretty cool too.
Casey Anderson is an environmentalist who raised a grizzly bear named Brutus from an infant to an 800 pound adult. Sunday May 5th, National Geographic will air a program that documents their year long expedition together to follow lives of grizzly bears in Yellowstone. Below is a picture of Brutus celebrating Thanksgiving with his family. See more remarkable images of Casey and Brutus here.
