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Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn-bred novelist, artist and philosopher Henry Miller was likewise disparaged and lauded for his alternative moral code. Judgments to which he responded, in his 1934 novel Tropic of Capricorn, “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” In his attempt to “live,” Miller [...]

Antibalas @ The Knitting Factory 12.17.09

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the Antibalas show last Thursday at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn was catching a post-pubescent Haley Joel Osment in the crowd, wearing a duck-billed fisherman’s hat and dancing awkwardly with a bottle of Coors in his hand, struggling to keep his date from passing out completely. It’s hard to [...]