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Loosies, and the Mid-Atlantic Nicotine Underground

By joabj On April 14, 2012 · 1 Comment

Curious thing we’ve noticed in our travels up and down the Mid-Altantic: Cigarettes are much more more expensive in Bushwick, compared to, say, their cost in Virginia, proud home of the largest U.S. tobacco conglomerate, the former Philip Morris*.

We learned this fact at a convenience store conveniently located off an exit of of I-95, near Fredericksburg, […]

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We Are The Wilderness: New Music

By Whispers On April 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

When you name your musical duo “We Are The Wilderness,” you might encounter people wondering to whom the “We” in the name refers. Is the “We” just the two band members, in some private wilderness of their own devising? Or is the We an more all-inclusive […]

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Midnight Taco Truck

Midnight Taco Truck

By Whispers On April 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So we heard a tip from someone who lives over on Beaver street about an excellent taco wagon usually parking  itself on Broadway and Stuyvesant, near the JMZ Myrtle stop.  The festively bright yellow Antojitos Mexicos, as its called, is usually parked somewhere not too far from Moar →

Bedford is for Tools: Bushwick Hipster Haiku

By Whispers On April 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

When the Student is ready, the Master appears, as the old hippie Zen disciples liked to impart. Why, just this afternoon, we were lamenting how we didn’t see any Twitter-sprung verse about life in Brooklyn’s always poetic 83rd District.  Before Twitter, there was Moar →

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Elotes on Knickerbocker

By joabj On April 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Today we enjoyed some Mexican Street Corn*, in the rain, from a cart on Knickerbocker and Starr. A steaming cob of corn is unwrapped from the husk, pushed onto a stick, gently slathered with mayonnaise, rolled around and dusted with parmesan cheese and then sprinkled judiciously with hot chili pepper…

Must be tried to be […]

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