In case you missed it: This weekend The New York Times posted a photo essay documenting some of NYC’s most gorgeously inked yoga practitioners, proving once again that, yes, NYC […]
Get ready, because today is the first of this year’s dual Manhattanhenge occurrences. Of course, this would be insanely awesome if I could actually get my head around what Manhattanhenge is. From Gothamist: The visually stunning event occurs twice a year, when the sun sets in perfect alignment with Manhattan’s […]
Ahhh… the flash mob. It seems like only yesterday I was reading about Improv Everywhere’s 2008 Grand Central action. People freezing. Guards freaking out. A radical art happening in one of the world’s most active transit hubs post-911! Remember that? Remember that “this is genius” feeling? Well, we’ve come a […]
Every few months I teach a course called “Start Yr Own Religion” at Brooklyn’s ever-expanding creative arts facility 3rd Ward. In addition to getting to know the world’s religions (and cults) through visuals and documentary footage, students are asked to create deities, symbols, core tenets (beliefs), rituals, and propaganda. Always […]
So-called hipster Christianity as a thing in and of itself is a fairly new phenomenon. However, read as a rhizomatic strand of the larger “Emerging Christianity” movement—a decentered spiritual fun-house of post-everything—it’s been around in some form or another since the early 00s. Most recently in the literary world, there’s […]
This weekend I heard a lot of this “those people are idiots” type talk with regards to Raptureists, and I must admit, it’s kinda bumming me out. It seems ever since Harold Camping amped up his May 21st bid for Rapture-gate 2011 everyone’s become this expresive über-above-it-all-cynic who just can’t […]
Here’s my weekly list of stories I didn’t get to spin yarns about: “Rabbi” Abraham Abraham, best known for being that ripped old guy who made Coney Island and the just-above-freezing waters of the Atlantic his home, died on May 18 of bone cancer. End of an era. Cyclists in […]
Welp, tomorrow is the big day. Either you’ll be here reading this blog—that is, left behind in your own personal hell—or you’ll be one of the few that gets whipped up in a whirlwind of merciful godly love and carried away, saved from the next five months of stupid Earth […]
Not New York has started hearing from a number of wee lil’ birdies about a yoga-inspired Reality TV Show that’s in the works. Here’s what I kinda don’t totally know for sure but can add to the rumor mill’s soon to be well-kindled fire: Possibility No. 1 The reality TV […]
Reading this pleasant lil’ piece on New York Shitty about a weird ole advertisement from the past… …showing up in front of its former home… …got the ole curiosity box up in my skull thinking once again about that Warhol statue in Union Square and re-sacrilized space. But, what it […]
Some days you wake up without a piece in the hopper, and the past week’s been kinda slim pickin’s as far as mystic Manhattan goes, and so you open up […]
Kali Ma Has a New Home in Queens There’s rumors of a new Kali temple having popped up behind the long-standing Ganesh temple out in Flushing, Queens. The new home to She with Disheveled Hair does not have a website and is said to be run by a man who […]
Not sure if you caught this a few days ago: The Brooklyn Jewish newspaper, Der Zeitung, was caught erasing both Hillary Clinton and an unnamed female White House staffer from the now famous Situation Room photo capturing the moments when White House peeps were reacting to Osama bin Laden’s (supposed) […]
This past weekend I had the pleasure of hobnobbing it up at the Observatory in Gowanus, Brooklyn where I got to check out “Alchemically Yours,” a new (and absolutely fantastic!) art exhibit curated by the mystically-inclined Pam Grossman, best known for her work as Phantasmaphile, the specter of all that […]
For the Western practitioner, part of what it means to be a “spiritual person” means having your snail-mailbox filled with an insane amount of we-sold-our-mailing-list-and-consequently-your-name-to-another-company spiritual pooh-pooh. That’s how a trip to Kripalu gets you a mystery subscription to pooh-pooh Yoga Journal. Which is how you get on the Omega […]
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