John Holmstrom talks about founding and editing 'Punk,' the chronicle of late-'70s New York:
John Holmstrom, founding editor of 'Punk' magazine, which is the subject of a brand new book, discusses being "in the right place at the right time" to document the late-'70s punk explosion in New York.
Bio: Jed Lipinski is a writer living in New York City. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and Fast Company.
Tubs full of children’s book became floating vessels and then capsized. Wooden IKEA shelves turned buoyant and crashed into merchandise racks and event tables, spilling stationary, tote bags and event copies into the flood. The ADT system, DVR player and store computer all shorted out.
Then, as the floodwaters receded, the pressure exploded the glass front door, dragging waterlogged books and postcards out of the store toward the Hudson River.
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on November 2nd, 2012 12:17pmEquipment ruined, power out and basements flooded, the only thing to do with all the food was to hold a major barbecue for the neighbors. Today, the assessments begin. More
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on November 1st, 2012 12:20pmShortly after dawn, Carnivale heard helicopter propellors chopping the air overhead, and managed to flag one down by waving the green vest out of the hole in the roof. The New York Police Department’s Scuba Team pulled Carnivale out of the attic, squeezed her into a metal basket dangling from a helicopter, and set her aloft. (Burr, too heavy for an airlift, was placed in an NYPD rowboat and rowed to safety.) “When I was up there in that basket, I got a view of my whole neighborhood,” Carnivale said. “It looked like those pictures of Katrina, where you could only see the tips of the houses for blocks and blocks. Like they were set in the middle of a lake.” More
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on November 1st, 2012 11:32am"Sandy is exactly the kind of storm people have been saying is likely to happen. Here’s another way of saying it: How much of a believer in coincidence do you have to be to have this storm happen during the warmest year in American history; when summer starts in March with the weirdest, most statistically anomalous heat wave we’ve ever seen.... You’ve got to be working pretty hard to convince yourself that’s a coincidence." More
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on October 30th, 2012 11:15amAt the tender age of 29, playwright David West Read is about to have his Broadway debut. It's only the second play he's ever written, and it's really, really dirty. More
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on October 25th, 2012 6:15pmince the late ‘90s, the Yes Men have pulled off dozens of stunts that demonstrate their gift for building media attention around cases of geopolitical corruption. Their enduring popularity suggests that, if nothing else, their actions are in sync with the sentiments of a large and left-leaning portion of the country. So far, Vamos and his coconspirator Jacques Servin, a.k.a. Andy Bichlbaum have impersonated spokesmen for Dow Chemical, Halliburton, McDonald’s, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The amusing fallout of these spoofs has a tendency to wind up on the websites of CNN, the Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal. More
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on October 25th, 2012 12:41pm“Justus is wonderfully charming and ebullient,” Moschetta said. “But I think the best part about him is his naïveté. Not many people would actually think to do this.” Since Moschetta joined the team, Times Square Art Square has established partnerships with Tumblr, the art blogazine Hyperallergic, and Behance, on online platform for showcasing and discovering creative work. The Brooklyn Brothers ad agency created the campaign’s Kickstarter video. More
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on October 19th, 2012 5:00pm“This is typical of Santos,” said Robert Gordon, 21, a writer for the website Elite Daily, subtitled “The Voice of Generation Y.” “It’s never a good time,” Gordon went on. “It’s like that one girl that you regrettably have sex with but you just keep going back. And you immediately regret it.” How many times had he come to Santos Party House? “I don’t like counting,” he said. “It makes me depressed.” More
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on October 18th, 2012 2:20pmA few months ago, tech guy Sean Auriti noticed a triangular fenced-in parking lot around the corner from the Graham Avenue L stop. Before long, he was sending emails to friends on hackerspace email lists announcing his plan to buy the lot and construct a fully operational hacker ecosystem. More
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on October 17th, 2012 11:25amFrom time to time we take a look at cool-looking local projects still trying to make it on Kickstarter. If a customizable watch band can get $10,266,846 in 30 days, surely these guys can pull through, right? More
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on October 11th, 2012 3:27pm
