Another new blog: Five Boroughs Television
A video-centric look at NYC’s past and present.
New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn from Liberty Island.
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
from Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse (2004)
Prime Retail Location (by Eric M-ortensen)
Saw Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Frasier’s Beauty and The Beast tonight at Abron’s Arts Center. It was great fun. Muz never lets me down.
Beauty and the Beast is an innovative collaboration between British TV actor and disability arts celebrity Mat Fraser and New York downtown art queen Julie Atlas Muz. Together they have developed a moving, sexy, wanton, intelligent, and thought-provoking show as Fraser and Muz reveal their fantasy world and perform beastly acts for you. As the Beast, Fraser uses his physical deformity to demonize the desires of humankind. Muz plays Beauty, revealing the unconscious obstinacy with which girls are brainwashed by the old fairy tales. Fraser’s social activism and anti-PC humor, coupled with Muz’s feminist glamour and sexuality, create the apex of inclusive (meaning disabled and non-disabled artists) performance art theater, where the message of accessibility is integrated in a charged and truly joyful play.
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Filling in the City Holes with Legos.
via chelsaskees
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I saw the one on W31st & 7th yesterday and it brought joy to my day
There are 50 businesses on this three block strip. All are locally (local to either the neighborhood or the city) owned. Only one is a giant corporate bank. It is also the only one that hasn’t shovelled the sidewalk.
The perfect demonstration of Wall Street’s disinterest in Main Street?
