Sk8boarding is the new baseball

Skateboarding seems to be the new official American pastime. We’re literally seeing guys on skateboards everywhere: Harlem, Lower Eastside, Nolita, Bedstuy, you name it. And we’ve seen all types: Euros, hipster dudes, little Puerto Rican kids, thugs, and so on. We came home yesterday to find a gang of little dudes videotaping themselves do tricks [...]

Posted: July 18th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: 1 comment#

On today’s playlist, 4th of July style

“Deeper Waters,” by Recloose featuring Joe Dukie

This song has nothing to do with America, patriotism or the colors red, white and blue. It doesn’t talk about democracy, politics or war. It’s simply a swinging, lazy, summer cookout jam with a beat that’s constant enough to do a slow, two-step to as you stand in line [...]

Posted: July 4th, 2008  Category: Life, Sounds  Comments: 1 comment#

A random Memorial Day rant

Where have all of my friends gone? Today is a beautiful one with sun, not-too-hot temperatures and a slight breeze. And I’m realizing that all of my friends are in stages of life that don’t allow for Memorial Day spontaneity. They’re either living elsewhere, married, permanently attached at the hip to their lovers, or minding their kids.

Posted: May 26th, 2008  Category: Life, Musings  Comments: No comments#

15 minutes with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Orange Prize winner and author of “Half Of A Yellow Sun” on art vs. qualifiers
by Kenya Hunt

MUSE: You studied medicine at the University of Nigeria and then shifted to communication at Drexel, political science at Eastern Connecticut State and then creative writing at John Hopkins University. What led you to finally deciding to study [...]

Posted: May 15th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: No comments#

LIFE: R.I.P. Mildred Loving

Mildred Loving, an often overlooked and accidental civil rights pioneer who was banned from Virginia after marrying a white man (she was black), passed away on May 2 at age 68. You may have read her backstory in a history class or two in school (depending on where you’re from): she married Richard Loving [...]

Posted: May 6th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: No comments#

LIFE: Exposed double standards

Today’s Sunday Times features an interesting article that reveals that John McCain has a Jeremiah Wright of his own and explores the double standards that surround the controversy.

Posted: May 4th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: No comments#

LIFE: Risk-taking can be good

How inspiring was Barack Obama’s speech today? The idea of race in America is an incredibly complicated and loaded one. But we love that he tackled it so directly and honestly. His speech felt like a definitive political and cultural moment. And we’re not just saying that because of the gang of emails and text [...]

Posted: March 18th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: 1 comment#

LIFE: On our to-do list this week

Friends tell us the Whitney Biennial is “underwhelming” this year. But we’re going to check it out anyway. But we’re even more excited about heading downtown to Deitch Projects afterward to make like Mos Def and Jack Black in “Be Kind/Rewind” and film our own boot-leg movie. While the idea of using an art [...]

Posted: March 6th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: No comments#

More fashion week recovery

We’re totally craving sweets right now. Lemon italian ice will suffice for now. But tomorrow we’re hitting up How Sweet It Is, a new pastry bakery owned by two women

Posted: February 9th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: No comments#

LIFE: Disturbing Super Tuesday moment of the day

Setting: #2 train headed downtown. A middle-aged Jewish mother explaining politics to her son and daughter who looked to be about 10 and 5 years-old.
Mom: “Here’s the thing, if the race ends up being between Obama and McCain the Republicans will win. There’s no way Obama can beat McCain.”
Son: “Why?”
Mom: “Because you just have [...]

Posted: February 5th, 2008  Category: Life  Comments: 1 comment#