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McCarren Park, Brooklyn, August 2006.

The Dawn Of Luxury

A short film about rock and real estate featuring Dan Deacon, Parts and Labor, Sightings, Necking, Vaz, Owl, Limousine and the staff of Main Drag Music. Headphones recommended.


Coney Island, 2007.

Coney Island Swan Song

This summer, we lost the batting cages and the go-kart park. By next summer, Astroland’s dreamspace — now owned by a developer with time-shares on his mind — may be just a memory. JB Reed shoots a swan song.


Road from Tan Tan to Laayoune, Western Sahara, 2005

Territorial Pissings

“When I was an alien, cultures weren’t opinions.”
A dispatch from Tan Tan, Morocco, gateway to the Western Sahara.


The Architect

A portrait of Greenpoint’s landed anarchist.


Elisa

It’s A Wrong New York

Elisa Ambrogio of the Magik Markers debunks the city’s myths.


5 Questions Kent Barwick

Kent Barwick

When Kent Barwick steps down as president of the Municipal Art Society next year, he will have held some top job at the nonprofit for the better part of four decades. We sat down to talk with him about the Society’s current exhibition on Jane Jacobs and what New Yorkers in this age of explosive development can learn from her simple call to watch and learn from the living city.


Boys Don't Cry

Excepter is a defiantly weird band that sounds like no one else in New York City. We invited them over for dinner one evening and engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about movies, music and Paris Hilton.