From Failed Messaih: “More than 40 community activist groups say hasidic developers are reserving apartments [in the “Brooklyn Triangle”] for fellow hasidim and excluding non-Jews, especially Latinos and Blacks…. The apartments […]
The Pope is coming! The pope is Coming! That’s right, ladies. Hold onto your panties. The pope everyone loves to love is coming to Gotham City this September. According to […]
Came across a really interesting six-minute documentary on the very rebellious Failed Messiah website, which focuses on day laborers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who are often hired by people within the […]
Thanks to one of NNY’s readers for passing along this link to a Religious News Service article discussing the ethics behind a few spiritually and politically motivated “dumpster divers,” otherwise […]
By The Nice Jewish Girl A Jewish-American peace activist once told me that her experience coming out as a Lesbian was far easier than coming out as a supporter of […]
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, […]
I know a lot of you are already “over winter,” but first, just calm down. It’s winter, goddamit. Thank Jah we actually still have one. God just happens to be […]
According to the NY Post, last week the world’s second biggest belieber to Anne Frank (and hottest lesbian), Justin Beiber, was out and about looking for a NYC swimming pool […]
Thanks to Gothamist (via Ephemeral NY) on this one. Just when you thought this local thing was gonna fizzle (wait…someone thinks “local” is gonna fizzle?), it turns out NYC has […]
So, I recently started massage therapy school, or as we like to call it “Manual Therapy” school. As such, it’s been a little on the difficult side this first week […]
Taking that symbol of cathartic hope and making it a symbol of the event itself has got a new cheerleader this week: Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) said he’s pushing for […]
About ten years ago I was living in Boulder, CO and reading a lot of spiritual books. Now, it’d be great if I could say spiritual “texts,” but really we […]
For as many years as I’ve been coming up to The Abode of the Message (say, about six), there has always been bread, butter, and jelly left out on the table in the eating hall. At any hour of the night I have felt safe knowing that if I had […]
Over the next few days I will be reporting from here… The Abode of the Message, covering this week’s Vanishing Art Festival featuring Peter Lamborn Wilson… Carolee Schneemann… and many more…. What the hell is Vanishing Art, you ask? Check out this communique from Wilson on the first Vanishing Art […]
Lately, whenever I sit in front of my altar in The Place of Peace, I find myself irresistibly drawn to contemplating a small corroding image I picked up a while […]
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