Must See: Don’t-Stop-Non-Stop Gogol Bordello

Daily Oddities: July 17, 2009

It’s another day in the neighborhood, and Oddities are all around us. In fact, I’d say it’s a banner week for weird.
Brooklyn:
Despite preliminary approval for the city’s first Wal-Mart, Brooklynites are still fighting the man, while the Man uncovers coaching documents for Chinese immigrants seeking asylum in the United States. Classic Man-hating gutter punks (so familiar [...]

Daily Oddities: Monday World Edition

There’s a lot to talk about in the World today, so lets jump right into it. You know about Tehran and you know about Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech, so we’re skipping that and getting straight down into the stuff you didn’t hear.

GLOBE:
More than a billion people go hungry, says the World  Food Program. That’s about as [...]

Daily Oddities, June 9th/10th

We’re starting this round of Daily Oddities with something everybody wants–a job! Today’s odd job listings include counting bees in New York City and catelouging controlled substances for the NYPD. Awesome much?
Now that you’re gainfully employed, lets take a quick gander around the globe.
GLOBE: Things are getting ridiculous in Russia, where the racing collapse of [...]

EASTSIDE UPDATE—LAT scoops 2000 word expose on controversy it invented

Hello! It’s time again to visit the good ship LAT,  where we take you deep deep inside the west coast’s only major newspaper as it struggles for relevance and the $$$ to stay alfloat while draining the youth out of a small but significant generation of would be career reporters. For a fantastic chronicle of [...]

Did I mention? Brooklyn Hacks

“I have customers who used to work in the offices around here,” said Aamir Ajaz, the perpetually smiling face behind the counter at Lahore Deli, a closet-sized SoHo eatery with a loyal following of taxi drivers. “Now they come in and they’re driving cabs.”

Did I mention–Adios Puebla York

Check out my most recent article at The Brooklyn Ink , Adios Brooklyn, about Mexican immigrants leaving New York

The Unbreakable New York Yellow

In a time of unprecedented belt-tightening, there is one industry that never stumbles—and no, it’s not foreclosure agents and short-sellers. It’s taxi service. Yes, hard-hit New Yorkers and those no longer commuting downtown to work every day are likely to scale back their yellow cab consumption, but as long as there are credit-card readers in [...]

Terrorist, moi? Why the Maya Arulpragasam LTTE-drama is NYT Tiger-shit

The fact that it takes an emphatically pregnant young rapper who samples Bollywood and AK47s, writes songs about Bird Flu and does Day-Glo animal-print schizophrenia as an ethos rapping with Jay-Z on her due date to make us stand up and take notice of a conflict an order of magnitude more deadly than the one in Gaza should say something about us, not her.

News You Need to be Reading, part 1

Dear Readers,
There is so much going on! First the inauguration, then the Clinton confirmation and Caroline Kennedy’s graceful departure from the NY Senate contest. Israel once again departed the Gaza Strip.  One might almost forget there was a whole EARTH out there full of other shit going on.
Since all you’ve been reading about is a) [...]