Mast Brothers Chocolate will be opening a chocolaterie and laboratory this fall. Brothers Rick and Michael Mast make their chocolate by hand in Brooklyn using family recipes. They are New York City’s sole bean-to-bar chocolate makers, sourcing the highest quality cacao from Venezuela, Ecuador and Dominican Republic. They only use Fair Trade and Certified Organic farmers, [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Midnight Cowboy
July 8, 2008 – 11:58 pm
I was put onto this clip of director John Schlesinger‘s 1969 film, Midnight Cowboy, by a friend who is an avid fan of all things psychedelic, and particularly light art. The images in Midnight Cowboy‘s infamous ‘party scene,’ are fantastic references for anyone interested in live projection or light shows – particularly those inspired by [...]
Sommernachtstraum at the Schaubühne
July 8, 2008 – 11:39 pm
Ah the Schaubühne! If the only there was an American theatre like it. Thomas Ostermeier brought Hedda Gabler to New York last year making Cate Blanchett’s production look super dusty. I don’t get to the Schaubühne that often but I watch all the trailers on their YouTube page. Here is Sommernachtstraum (of course). There’s nothing [...]
Worth the Hype
July 7, 2008 – 12:01 pm
Sometimes I put off reading the books that everyone is reading just because I’m envious. For example: Nell Freudenberger’s Lucky Girls, all of Jonathan Safran Foer, etc. Jhumpa Lahiri was also on that list. However, due to several smart people, I decided to actually buy Lahiri’s new collection, Unaccustomed Earth. I read the whole thing [...]
Suffragette City
July 6, 2008 – 1:10 pm
Pinpoint by Kate Terry Suffragette City is actually in Bow, East London. On the same street where Sylvia Pankhurst set up her Suffragette Shop in 1912, Bow Road. It is no coincidence that the newest show from artist-led initiative The Spare Room Project is an exhibition of the work of six female artists. Not one [...]
Visionaire and Lacoste
July 2, 2008 – 10:31 pm
While Monday everyone was still busy talking about last week’s Demolition Party, (where yes, Jude Law participated in the destruction of a French hotel, and no I was in Corsica and didn’t go) tomorrow no doubt everyone will be talking about last night’s Lacoste-Visionaire party, held on the Paquebot on the River Seine. The party [...]
Do You Like Music?
July 1, 2008 – 4:58 pm
The Feelies play the 4th of July with Sonic Youth at Battery Park. The show is sold out unfortunately, but you can stay home and watch these videos over and over and over… and keep feeling like it’s 1987. This Sonic Youth video was directed by Richard Kern and it’s maybe one of my favorite [...]
