Author: Nicole Brydson
July 31, 2013 / / Food

The Grand Bar and Grill is the House that Hardcore Built

Eric Austin is the punk rock proprietor of Williamsburg establishments The Grand Bar and Grill, Second Chance Saloon and the venue The Acheron. If there’s something that Eric loves, it’s telling stories, and he’s got a lot of great ones – many of them not fit to print here, though we tried.

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July 12, 2013 / / Community

From the New Museum to the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Art is Life is Art

July 6, 2013 / / Community

An Open Letter to Gilbert Gottfried and the Wall Street Journal on “Brooklyn Before the Hipsters”

July 4, 2013 / / Community

A Comprehensive Guide to Sort of Stop the Internet From Maybe Knowing Things About You

In the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal a lot of my friends keep asking how I get around the walls and watchers that the internet has installed all around us in Web 2.0 land. There are no surefire ways to be completely anonymous, and most of the time I’m not, but there are definitely ways to mediate who knows what about your personal preferences and search habits. Here is a comprehensive guide to bypassing the people who want to watch you.

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June 30, 2013 / / Music

Kanye West Doesn’t Care About All Women

June 19, 2013 / / Community

NY versus LA Three Point Oh?

June 18, 2013 / / Film

Curators of Creative Control, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective is Building an Informal Peer Economy

June 14, 2013 / / Community

The NSA Leaks and How the Media We Consume Will Consume Us

“There’s a search box and they own it and we put our dreams in it and they eat them,” said Columbia Law professor Eben Moglen in a lecture called “Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media” at the 2012 re:publica conference in Berlin. His was not a new revelation, even then.

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May 31, 2013 / / Music

From NYU to Silent Barn Radical Women Turn To Discussions of ‘What Now?’

On May 29, 2013 there were two back-to-back panel discussions, one in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, which drew two different crowds of artists, feminists and leftists. To my knowledge, only two people attended both: myself and the journalist and author Sara Marcus. Listen right here, or click through to read more, listen to audio and see video of a live performance of Habibi.

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May 16, 2013 / / Film

Itziar Barrio Captures the Complexities of Authority and Art on Film