Am I sounding like a broken record yet? Once again Phantasmaphile has hipped me to a happening we should all be clamoring to attend. Elizabeth Street Fine Arts’ (209 Elizabeth St.) latest exhibit “Ethiopian Magic Scrolls: Talismanic Art of Ethiopia” (ending June 30th) is where you wanna be to get […]
Today is my second-to-last full day in Boulder, CO, and the Niwot curse is beginning to wear off. I’ve pretty much done all the stuff I wanted to, today sealing my trip with a jaunt up to arguably my favorite place on earth, the small town of Nederland, home of […]
The Niwot Curse, laid down by Chief Niwot of the Southern Arapahoe people, states that “People seeing the beauty of [Boulder valley] will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty.” Now, people who know me understand that I have been truly cursed, as I […]
This call for participants was posted over at the very lovely Phantasmaphile who received it in an email and thought it interesting enough to put up. Obviously, this fits right in with my little humble blog: SUBJECT: TV company looking for participants interested in a doing a Ouija-board session: Have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is just a quick note to alert all y’all about a talk tonight on mesmerism at the Observatory Room located at Proteus Gowanus in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. This event begins at 8pm and will cost you a total of $9.00. It is being put on by the […]
This newly completed 44′ tall head is the work of Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and resides in the very-pleasant-on-a-cool-Spring-day Madison Square Park lawn. The sculpture is said to portray a girl in a dream state and was influenced by an actual 9-year-old girl and the Greek nymph Echo. Echo is […]
Last week sassy cheerleader for universal Oneness, Margaret Nichols, got in touch with me about wanting to write an article for Not New York based on her experience at last […]
“[Recuperation] also happens irrespective of the startling content of the style: punk clothing and insignia could be bought mail-order by the summer of 1977, and in September of that year, Cosmopolitan ran a review of Zandra Rhodes‘ latest collection of couture follies which consisted entirely of variations on the punk […]
On the heels of the recent “voodoo fire” in Brooklyn, but hopefully in light of our recent coverage of the actual tradition and practice of vodou in Brooklyn, comes this tragic story from Reuters: “An elderly woman was sentenced on Wednesday to up to three years in prison for failing […]
There’s something particularly great watching Jiddu in the first part of this video. He’s so young! While you can hear his “pathless path” ideas starting to form, he’s still very stiff. He’s definitely assured of his message, very much so for such a young buck, but the whole thing is […]
The first Vodou party I ever attended was a Gede party for a new Priestess, in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. I didn’t know who or what Gede was. I […]
Haven’t been able to to get much info on this new-looking purveyor of the psychic arts located at 280 Mulberry St., but from what I can tell it’s taking the high road as far as decor is concerned. This new establishment, let’s call it “Psychic Visions” from the sign on […]
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