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Underground world of lawless fighting.

You probably don't know about this, but deep in the city there is an underground bastion that has been gaining ground and with ferocious...

The Man I wish I was. An interview with Kharis Kennedy.

Invited to come along last Thursday to Kharis Kennedy's curated show - 'The man I wish I was,' at the A.I.R gallery in Brooklyn...

Craisglist Job Respondent points out things we never knew.

If one is to begin to understand the happenstance of a society one is obliged to peruse the deluge offered and acted upon in...

The etiquette of ‘text’ dating.

Dating has always been a perfected ‘game pitch.’ Before the cluster arrival of cell phones, facebook, the internet, twitter one would actually go out meet people and...

Learning to love the ‘hipster.’

Hipsters exist in abundant sources. They can be found milling derelict streets that only they can enjoy, Pabst strewn dance floors, Euro- centric cafe/brasseries...

A history of the world’s worst room mates.

It's a rite of passage- room mates. Some of us have been fortunate to have room mates whom they have become the best of...

The New Decade: The haves vs the have nots?

For some reason or another most people in Western society are brought up with the idea that even if they don't come from...

How I learned to love the needle.

A violent account of heroin addiction: How I came to love the needle. Stories of infection, dope sickness, overdose and mental illness. ##Editor Update: since...

The etiquette of walking- a primer for the uninitiated.

What a lovely day it is. No humidity. Not a cloud in the sky. A nice cool fifteen-degree breeze. Let’s not...

Conversations with a dope user.

Conversations with a dope user: The author's account and conversations with heroin users, hooked and desperate as they struggled with addiction. Somewhere in Bushwick,...

Observations on the G train.

The G train is akin to a slinky rattlesnake making its way through a Western shoot out with a myriad of characters languishing on...

Payola- How Women play Men.

Pay for play or payola is a common term in the music industry. Paying people to play your music on radio stations is an...

Celebrity, the new preferred religion.

Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Kabbalah, and now Celebrity-ism? In the day and age where the 9 o'clock news reports on celebrity scandals rather than...

Kate Squillace- The Ultimate Bad Girl…

There are a lot of things that go on in reality TV that you never find out about, that is until you become a...

Google, Censorship, and the First Lady.

The search engine Google has found itself in an extremely delicate situation this week surrounding an offensive image of Michelle Obama, and has taken...