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Bushwick Distilleries: A Guide

Compared to beer and wine-making, distillation is a violent process. Where the former substances gently bubble away under fermentation’s...

Your Guide to $1 Oyster Happy Hours

For centuries in New York the slippery, opalescent oyster dominated the shores, their bone white shell fragments crunching underfoot....

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...

New York Cinema & Popular Music: A Holy Union

While it isn't the first art form to bind itself to music, cinema has arguably achieved the closest symbiosis therein. Because while...

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...

Book Review: Recovered Memory

Courtesy of © Daylight Records To be birthed and reared in one of the world’s great cities is both a boon and a misfortune. A boon...

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...

Exhibition Review: Eugene Richards' The Run-on of Time

Courtesy of © Eugene Richards In the arts, context plays various roles, be it to make sense of a work, enhance and deepen its meaning -...

Exhibition Review: The Whitney's Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again

The Whitney’s new exhibit, “Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again,” comes no closer than any previous endeavor in shattering the...

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...

Exhibition Review: Gordon Parks

Our fascination with beginnings, with the nascent in art, music, literature, history, etc., is bound up with our obsession with what...

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...

Murder in Paris Park Highlights Shortcomings of Prostitution Law

Back in the dog days of mid-August, 36-year-old Vanessa Campos was murdered in Paris’ Bois de Boulogne park. Her death came a...

Samadhi Cafe: Haven for the beer-obsessed teutonophile

When your first opportunity to eat currywurst is inside a massive, drafty suburban shopping mall in Guadalajara, Mexico, you may found...

Oaxaca's radical street artists won't be muzzled

A typically pointed work by Oaxaca artist Yescka “Oh that’s pretty. What a nice combination of colors.” That is Yescka, a prominent...

Diamonds in the rough: Street art in Guadalajara

Work by artists Peque vrs and Pwoz Mac, calle Morelos and Roja Gonzalez In case you hadn’t heard, art imitates life, which is no less...

The tattoo artist as healer

Sitting in the sun-lit office of Chapultepec-adjacent tattoo shop Chamuca at three in the afternoon, owner and artist Rodrigo Ruiz...

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