Urban Martial Arts was just nominated for an About.com Reader's Choice Award for Best Martial Arts Twitter Account! […]

This is from the Freechild Movement which is about students around the globe taking control of their education. Intro The Freechild Project has found that young people across the nation are leading their communities in activism for social change. Point to Ponder “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the […]

There are many Presidents who have left their fair stamp on our great city. You can pay respects to Ulysses S. Grant at his magnificent mausoleum – Grant’s Tomb, the […]

Kudos to videographer and blogger Aaron Fulks for creating this most awesome cooking video of me in my Brooklyn kitchen. I made a winter pizza with my csa goods. You can see the full recipe on his website: www.cookingminute.com […]

Now that you all are hopefully recovered from a packed weekend of amazing shows — including Friday’s awesome grass clippings winter warm up and Southpaw’s four-night Americana Pie 2 festival — it’s time … to do it all again. There may not be as much on the docket this week, but a definite must on […]

So it's been exactly one year and two days since the last post. In the time since I've been e-gone, I have been busy with these things: -Going to Norway for seven weeks -Learning Norwegian -Internship at Scribner -Finishing my undergraduate thesis -Finishing my undergraduate degree -Starting aerial acrobatic classes -Reading Scribner's about-t […]

We have been on a continuous Star Trek binge all winter. One of the many things in the show’s plot lines that have intrigued us are the “Ferengi Rules of Acquisition” which are a set of philosophies run by the ultra-capitalist society of the same name seen on Deep Space Nine. These rules are constantly […]

If your best friend is cheating on a test and you know it, what should you do? You don't want to tell on her and get her in trouble, but it's also not right. […]

Dear Fire Marshall, The grass clippings winter warm up, the first ever grass clippings event, more than doubled the maximum occupancy of Brooklyn’s Bar4 on Friday night. In the midst of a few whiskeys and some uncontained dancing, we actually even (accidentally) broke the maximum occupancy sign, but its back up now. While we are […]

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I’ve been really loving sewing lately. Those wedding napkins were like a gateway drug to more hard-core projects. And now that I have a fancy new machine thanks to my parents, I’ve been a sewing fiend. A few weeks ago, … Continue reading → […]

With just a few days to go before Southpaw – one of the first hipster-friendly spots to pop up on Fifth Ave in Park Slope in 2002 and a hallowed place for Americana fans in Brooklyn – closes its doors, there is a fantastic lineup of tunes to hear as its decade of existence comes […]

My submission for the Uncover Church Avenue has been accepted. The image of Roger Maris’s famous swing, painted with the Bonnie Youth Club colors will be up by early spring. The project is an attempt to turn unused, or shuttered store fronts to give a more aesthetic appearance to the avenue. A crew of experience muralists […]

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