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.
The Associated Press wondered whether the film got them thinking about, you know, something bigger for the band? "We've been thinking about all sorts of things," Plant said. "We just can't remember what they were. Schmuck." More
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on October 10th, 2012 10:24amThe premise makes for some riveting television. In the first episode, “Courier to Kingpin,” a K-9 rips open a bag containing three bricks of crystal meth; a nervous man from Guyana is caught trying to smuggle 4 kilos of pure cocaine inside his carry-on; and a Dominican teenager gets his stomach X-rayed on the suspicion that he’s swallowed pellets filled with liquid heroin. (The results are negative, and the teen, with no money or luggage and only a T-shirt on his back on a frigid winter night, is released.) More
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on October 9th, 2012 11:05amThe building, originally commissioned by the New York merchant John Jacob Astor as a public library in 1854, now features a louvered glass canopy, a refurbished lobby, a mezzanine lounge with Italian leather seating, and a spacious exterior staircase that, according to the Architect’s Statement, provides a “dignified entry experience.” More
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on October 8th, 2012 2:39pmDeidre Schoo, who directed the film with Michael Beach Nichols, said in a phone interview that the article may have been the first to truly validate flexing as a dance form. “A number of flex dancers are on tour with Madonna and have performed on shows like 'America’s Best Dance Crew,'” she said. Jonathan George, a.k.a. Jay Donn, is currently touring with Big Bad University, the artist and songwriter collective launched by Sky Blu of the band LMFAO. “But flex is still pretty underground." Schoo said. "It was great to see it acknowledged by a dance critic for the Times.” More
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on October 3rd, 2012 1:24pm“You can buy an 8- to 10-inch alligator for about $100 or $125 at any of the reptile shows in Pennsylvania,” said Lewis Gaudio, who has owned the Exotic Pet Warehouse in Yonkers for 30 years. “I mean, you can’t sell primates in New York either, but people still have monkeys at their place.” “It’s like drugs,” Gaudio added. “People find ways to get ‘em.” More
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on October 2nd, 2012 2:07pmWhat’s interesting in all this is that he appears to have really liked The Carter. When I spoke with people close to the case in 2009, they told me he screened it regularly on his bus and burned copies for friends. The director, Adam Bhala Lough, said that he shot only what Carter wanted him to shoot. “He’d invite us to film a show in Atlanta, or inside his hotel room in Amsterdam,” Lough said in 2009. “He’d ask us not to shoot certain things, and we complied. So to be told it was slanderous? I thought they’d made a mistake.” More
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on October 2nd, 2012 10:42am“I really never leave the block,” he confessed. “When people see me on Atlantic Avenue, a few streets away, they call out: “What are you doing so far from home? It’s dangerous out here!” Interestingly, Boerum Hill reminds him less of the Left Bank than of Cairo or Alexandria. “In Paris, everything is clean, flat, like a museum,” he said. “Brooklyn is chaos everywhere. There is garbage outside in the street, for instance, and it smells when it’s hot at night. In Cairo you have that same smell. Also there is dust on the trees here, which you find in Cairo but not in Paris. I love that." More
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on September 28th, 2012 11:30amAt 4 p.m. yesterday, a thoroughly tattooed employee was standing before one of the restaurant’s two green chalkboards, carefully filling in letters of the menu with blue and yellow chalk. Long desks stocked with fresh crayons and Playskool Draw and Story Pad faced the kitchen at the front of the room. On the wall a photo of the Montreal Canadiens circa 1963 hung below portraits of PS1’s graduating classes of 1947 and 1954, the students from ’54 looking noticeably less happy than those from ‘47. Folk Implosion’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop the Flow” played on the stereo. Eccentrically dressed people were drawing in the books and talking about Berlin. More
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on September 28th, 2012 11:19amFriedman on Nelson: "Before I ran for governor of Texas in 2005, Willie told me: 'If you’re going to have sex with an animal, always make it a horse. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you’ll always have a ride home.' That has served me very well in politics and in life." More
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on September 26th, 2012 12:52pmFor Andy Greenberg, author of the new book This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileaks, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information, Julian Assange is only one aspect of the larger story he’s interested in telling. That story is the history of information leaking, from the Pentagon Papers to the dozens of “leak”-named organizations that have sprung up in the wake of Wikileaks, including Britileaks, Indoleaks, Frenchleaks, and Porn Wikileaks. Greenberg, a staff writer for Forbes who conducted one of the earliest in-person interviews with Assange, delves into the life and motivations of the mercurial white-haired Australian. More
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on September 11th, 2012 12:46pm
