The ‘dust-kicker’: Artist Timothy Goodman is having a moment
Timothy Goodman went from a tough childhood in Ohio to painting houses for a living, before painting major murals in Williamsburg and working with huge brands like Apple and Uniqlo. Now, he’s designed...
View ArticlePhilanthropy and social justice: Jocelynne Rainey of the BCF
Since its founding in 2009, the Brooklyn Community Foundation has helped provide more than $90 million in grants to exclusively Brooklyn nonprofits. Which is important because even though Brooklyn is...
View ArticleAlana Casanova-Burgess and the music of “La Brega”
Hosted and co-created by award-winning journalist Alana Casanova-Burgess, “La Brega” is a podcast that has won best-of accolades for its reportage into various aspects of under-examined life in Puerto...
View ArticleGbenga Akinnagbe: 'Wire' star and activist
Actor, writer, activist and Brooklynite Gbenga Akinnagbe joins us to discuss his career and his latest offscreen role: Working to save a 140-year-old living landmark in Bed-Stuy, a magnolia tree that...
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen, Mr. Binky Griptite!
For two decades, Binky Griptite was the guitarist, emcee and hype man for the Dap-Kings, backing the mighty Sharon Jones. These days he’s leading his own band. The Binky Griptite Orchestra is an old...
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen, Mr. Binky Griptite!
For two decades, Binky Griptite was the guitarist, emcee and hype man for the Dap-Kings, backing the mighty Sharon Jones. These days he’s leading his own band. The Binky Griptite Orchestra is an old...
View ArticleJennifer Mills and the news that's barely fit to print
For 21 years Jennifer Mills has published Jennifer Mills News online, a banal-as-it-gets weekly compendium of her daily life, told in classic newspaper style. It’s understated and quietly very funny...
View ArticleJohnny Cirillo is watching New York
Since 2016 Johnny Cirillo has stationed himself on street corners in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where he’s lived for over 20 years, and snapped thousands of photos of fabulously attired New Yorkers....
View ArticleThe criminal mind of Gersh Kuntzman
If you are a driver of a certain delinquent orientation, you might not think every law pertains to you. You might, for example, tamper with your license plate in order to avoid detection by toll, speed...
View ArticleMistress Marley, financial dominatrix
This week's guest is Mistress Marley, who is a financial dominatrix, which is exactly what it sounds like. Her clients, almost all white men, are financial submissives — "finsubs" in the industry...
View ArticleMorgan Monaco on the latest news from Prospect Park
There is a lot going on in Prospect Park these days. The Vale of Cashmere is undergoing a massive, multimillion dollar redesign process. The two-mile section of the park’s loop known as East Drive is...
View ArticleHari Kondabolu, vacation daddy
Hari Kondabolu is a very funny stand-up comic, an astute observer on race and racial politics, a writer and filmmaker, a Brooklynite and, most recently a dad. His latest special is out this week on...
View ArticleThe 'unapologetic quest' of Council Member Crystal Hudson
Hudson, a third-generation Brooklynite from Prospect Heights who represents her own neighborhood plus Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights and part of Bed-Stuy, is one of first openly gay Black...
View ArticleChristine Whelan, the doyenne of Sahadi’s
Whelan joins us to discuss the past, present and future of Sahadi’s, the legendary Middle Eastern market founded by her great-grand-uncle 128 years ago. Known for its spices, roasted nuts roasted,...
View ArticleGeorge Motz, the burger king
Motz is the pre-eminent expert on the history of the American hamburger and a scholar of different regional burger styles and their cultural significance. His 2004 documentary “Hamburger America” was...
View ArticleA Hollywood writers’ strike comes to New York
For two weeks now, Writers Guild of America members on both coasts have been picketing for fair compensation in the brave new streaming world. Strikers have shut down production of shows like...
View ArticleHere's rye in your eye
Fort Hamilton Distillery was born out of a desire to revive the classic pre-Prohibition New York-style rye and has since become a destination for connoisseurs of cocktails as well as cocktail and...
View ArticleHere's rye in your eye
Fort Hamilton Distillery was born out of a desire to revive the classic pre-Prohibition New York-style rye and has since become a destination for connoisseurs of cocktails as well as cocktail and...
View ArticleTalking about talking (and writing and tennis) with Touré
Touré is an omnivorous pop culture critic, an astute political analyst and a thoughtful voice on race and Blackness. Over the course of his career he has hosted shows on MSNBC, Fuse, BET and MTV. He...
View ArticleEating righteously with Jaeki Cho
If you’re looking for a place to eat that’s a little off the beaten path, most likely not in your neighborhood and definitely delicious, you could do worse than follow Righteous Eats on TikTok or...
View ArticleRomance writer Sarah MacLean: 'Happiness is terrifying to tyranny'
You or someone you love probably reads a lot of romance fiction. Which means that you or someone you love has probably read a book by Sarah MacLean, a New York Times best seller with 19 novels and...
View ArticleStacey Mei Yan Fong is Ms. American Pie
The question of home is a driving force of Stacey Mei Yan Fong's new book “50 Pies, 50 States,” out this week. The book is also, as the title suggests, a pie cookbook — an ingenious one at that. In...
View ArticleMan on Man love to love and love to rock
Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman are a couple of regular guys with regular dad bods. And they’re a couple. As Man on Man, they make music that tackles themes of love, intimacy, sex, queer culture and...
View ArticleThe rent is still too damn high
Leah Goodridge is a tenants’ rights attorney who serves on the New York City Planning Commission, where she is the first and only tenants’ rights attorney. Born and raised in Brownsville, she lives in...
View ArticleMs. Marcia Griffiths
This week we are joined by a legend, an empress, an icon of reggae. In an industry dominated by male voices, Marcia Griffiths is about to enter her 60th year as a trailblazing vocalist, songwriter,...
View ArticleTiny Desk in the big bandshell
Two weeks ago NPR’s Tiny Desk online video series broke the internet with a bombastic performance by New Orleans rapper Juvenile. The man who produced that viral segment is NPR Music's Bobby Carter. If...
View ArticleEli “Paperboy” Reed delivers the musical news
Singer, songwriter, DJ and producer Eli “Paperboy” Reed has spent a lifetime mining the deep vein of Americana — from soul to country to gospel. He has put out eight albums of his own over the past 20...
View ArticleA quarter century of Tanoreen
Now in its 25th year, Tanoreen is a James Beard nominee and a Michelin Bib Gourmand-winning restaurant. It has spawned two excellent cookbooks. It has been featured on the Food Network's "Best Thing I...
View ArticleState Senator Zellnor Myrie
State Senator Zellnor Myrie is the first generation American son of Costa Rican immigrants and a native Brooklynite who represents the district that includes Prospect Lefferts Gardens — where he grew...
View ArticleHow and why Clive Thompson biked across the country
In April, journalist and author Clive Thompson set out to bicycle across the entire country — 4,150 miles total — as part of the reporting for his next book on “micromobility.” He documented his trip...
View ArticleKendra Morris is who you were waiting for
For someone who professes not to be special on her new album, “I Am What I’m Waiting For,” Kendra Morris is … pretty special. Morris is a Greenpoint-based soul singer-songwriter and visual artist who...
View ArticleConfessions of a former NYC landmarks preservationist
We have granted anonymity to this week’s guest in order for her to speak candidly about her years as a preservationist for the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission. We’ll get into the inner...
View ArticleBrooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez
Eric Gonzalez made history in November 2017 when he became the first Latino district attorney elected in New York State. And with a promise to helm “the most progressive D.A.’s office in the country,”...
View ArticleFran Lebowitz (still) doesn't care what you think
Fran Lebowitz started her career writing a column for Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, Mademoiselle and others. She published two very funny collections of her essays, "Metropolitan Life" in 1978 and...
View ArticleKaren Blondel: 'The Fearless Princess of Red Hook'
If you live and work in Red Hook you’ve probably come across housing and climate activist Karen Blondel. Last month Blondel received new, city-wide recognition when she was one of five New Yorkers...
View ArticleGowanus Open Studios: The show goes on
Last month, Arts Gowanus was dealt a devastating blow when the storms that blew through the borough completely swamped the entire neighborhood. But their annual tentpole Open Studios weekend is...
View ArticleThe unbearable creepiness of 'Mr. Organ'
David Farrier is a New Zealand journalist who has a knack for finding stories in the nooks of culture, bizarre phenomena hidden in plain sight. His new movie, "Mr. Organ," is about a sociopathic...
View ArticleRamblin’ Jack Elliott: ‘Destined to be a traveler’
The word “legend” gets tossed around a lot. But if anyone is worthy of the designation it would be singer-songwriter and cowboy poet Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Born Elliott Charles Adnopoz in Brooklyn in...
View ArticleRestoring justice with Erika Sasson
The American criminal justice system is built on a punitive ideology — an ideology that in practice doesn’t always deliver its desired results. There is another way. Restorative justice is an...
View ArticleSay She She? C’est so chic!
Say She She is coming off a big, big year. The trio of discodelic sirens released their double album “Silver” late September just shy of one year after their debut “Prism.” They had their national TV...
View ArticleAn oral history of the girl group sound
“But Will You Love Me Tomorrow” is a comprehensive new oral history of the era of girl groups — the first wave of music by and for teenagers — told by the women who forged the sounds. The book, by...
View ArticleODB: 20 years gone
A founding member of Wu Tang Clan and one of hip hop’s most explosive characters, ODB was a showman, a stage crasher, a comedian, a father, a husband, a literal hero. He was also flawed. ODB struggled...
View ArticleJesse David Fox wrote the book on comedy
If you like comedy, have we got a book for you. It’s called “Comedy Book.” And it’s by Jesse David Fox. Actually, the full title is “Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture — And the Magic that Makes...
View ArticleSipping prosecco with Ashlie Atkinson of 'The Gilded Age'
If you’ve watched TV or movies with any regularity over the past 20 years, you’ve probably seen Ashlie Atkinson. If you’ve gone to bars with any regularity in Central or South Brooklyn over the past 20...
View ArticleFran Lebowitz (still) doesn't care what you think — repeat
Back in October the writer and professional opinion-haver Fran Lebowitz swung through the borough to appear at Kings Theatre in conversation with writer Marlon James. Ahead of that appearance, she...
View ArticleScott Lynch eats Brooklyn
The ridiculously prolific Scott Lynch covers food for Brooklyn Magazine: restaurant openings, news and pop-ups. He also shoots highly photogenic events like the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge, Bike...
View ArticleMLK in NYC [repeat]
[Originally aired 2021] For Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, we look at the ways in which New Yorkers have advocated, agitated, and exercised their power to shape the discussion around civil rights. MLK...
View ArticleBrooklyn Botanic Garden’s Adrian Benepe
The city’s 34 Cultural Institutions Groups — organizations including The Brooklyn Museum, BAM, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and more — depend on funding from the department of cultural affairs. It is a...
View ArticleAnnaleigh Ashford and Joe Tapper
Today we’re talking with a theatrical power couple: Joe Tapper stars in the Off Broadway dark comedy “The White Chip,” opening February 1 and co-produced by his wife, the Tony-winning actor Annaleigh...
View Article'Reacher' co-star Maria Sten
The hit Amazon series “Reacher" just wrapped its second season and has been re-upped for a third — and coming back with it is the character Frances Neagley, played by Maria Sten. Neagley is Jack...
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