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Bushwick: A Latin American Buffet

[Editor's note: The following six paragraphs were from the writer's original edit of this Bushwick Daily article - which were not...

Bushwick's Moto Spirits Distills Rice Whisky and Jabuka

Asked if there had been any notable disasters or setbacks in the few years she and her partner, Hagai Yardeny, had been operating the...

Local Activist to Create Music Label For Incarcerated Artists

For Brooklyn activist Fury Young, Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” proved...

An Intro to Jazz & Classical For Plebians

Somewhere along the road of our musical acculturation, we were set upon by various forces, both sinister and benign. They told us what...

Gianluca Vacchi Creates a Masterpiece of Cringeworthy Narcissism

Italian pop is huge in Italy, but only occasionally reaches the shores of America, gaining a foothold for a time, only to lose it. Even...

Blick Bassy: Musician, Cultural Attache

Blick Bassy's new album, named for the year a key figure in Cameroon's struggle to cast off the colonial yoke was murdered, reminds us...

Latin America's 36th Best Restaurant is the beauty to Guadalajara's beast

Escamoles, or ant eggs, on a puree of cauliflower and parsnip, course four at Alcalde Without a doubt the jewel piercing the otherwise...

Book Review: John A. Chakeres' First Flight

Courtesy of © Daylight Community Arts Foundation I’ve often thought that, of all the things which can be glimpsed by our eyeballs across...

Is Timothy Swischuk making America's most interesting sandwiches?

Disclaimer: This food review is blatantly partisan: the writer is acquainted with the owner/chef of the restaurant under discussion, and...

A Year On, Ai Wei Wei's Human Flow Is More Relevant Than Ever

Last week, on a gusty afternoon of spotless blue skies, the global refugee crisis arrived on the Upper East Side, roosting beneath the...

Farewell Tour: Sam's Burgers, Swan Oyster Depot & Zuni's Chicken

The list I had made was long and I was short on time and tight with money. The Tonga Room, Red’s Java, The Buena Vista, Farallon, The Old...

Sex, Death and Butterflies in Michoacan

The migration of the North American monarch butterfly between Mexico and Canada is a journey of life, death and rebirth, a testament to...

Book Review: The American Fraternity, An Illustrated Ritual Manual

Courtesy of © Andrew Moisey Have you heard of Diane Fossey? She was a pioneering primatologist who spent years studying packs of...

Book Review: Mirror Mirror

Ryan McGinley’s book, a companion piece to his show “Mirror, Mirror,” is, plainly put, a collection of nude selfies taken by people in...

Memory Connection and Loss: The Work of Hope Herman Wurmfeld

Courtesy of © Hope Herman Wurmfeld When photographer Hope Herman Wurmfeld moved from New York City to Rome in early 1964, post-war...