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...This Brooklyn band released its debut without money--or tinkering--from a record label, and you can hear the absence of both. From Alec Ounsworth's thin, David Byrne-like vocals to the miles of ether between the pop hooks, the album is not exactly market friendly, but abstraction has its rewards. They include the floating ecstasy of the break-up song Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) ("Now where's the woolen sweater/ You mentioned in the letter?/ Imply/ The other guy") and the partial fingerprints of Joy Division and R.E.M. on Upon This Tidal Wave of Young...
...cooking world; in Decatur, Ga. Lewis, who grew up on a farm and influenced chefs across the country with her insistence on simple recipes with pure ingredients, held chef positions at such high-profile eateries as Cafe Nicholson, New York City's 1950s celebrity haunt, and the Brooklyn chophouse Gage & Tollner. Her now classic 1976 cookbook, The Taste of Country Cooking, helped revive Southern cuisine...
Cublunk gives an example: a concert at the Middle East featuring Brooklyn hardcore rap legends M.O.P. Instead of presenting their beat-heavy street tales, the hip-hop duo, at the request and advice of the promoters, brought a rock band to the concert in order to appeal to the college crowd. The mixture didn’t work...
When Steve Hindy and Tom Potter founded the Brooklyn Brewery in 1987, the rest of America was drowning in Bud Light and loving it. There were only 33 other microbrewers in the U.S., and few people knew or cared why a 100% malted-barley lager might taste better than the King of Beers. The pair rarely thought about getting rich. "Mostly the motivation was not going broke," Potter says. At one point, they worked in an unheated warehouse, wearing fingerless gloves while filling out invoices...
...decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch...