Hello, and welcome to today, Akshaya Tritiya, a most auspicious day in the Hindu calendar when buying gold is said to be of great benefit. It is also, according to Hindu mythology, the day Veda Vyasa began to dictate to Ganesh the Mahabharata, a text so large and important, it […]
Man, cyclists are getting it from all sides these days. The Brooklyn Paper reported yesterday on an alleged scuffle between some in the Hasidic community and a Brooklyn cyclist: A bus driver…trapped cyclist Christine Sandoval against a parked car near Flushing Avenue as she was commuting to work on April […]
What else is there to say this week other than that Osama bin Laden, perhaps in reality, is dead and that a number of New Yorkers are super psyched to hear that this particular Public Enemy no. 1 is finally no more. Unfortunately, this is not the last we will […]
One of Not New York’s wonderful readers sent in this pic of a hopeful street preacher spreading the Good News around Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn this weekend. I’ve been tracking date-setter and president of Family Radio, Harold Camping‘s, latest Judgment Day prediction of May 21st for a few months now. […]
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 […]
Behold, as my odes, manifold on your rhymes Two MC’s can’t occupy the same space at the same time. It’s against the laws of Physics. —The Fugees, Lauren Hill at her most i-rific Look whose weekend just got awesome. Yours did! I mean seriously, is New York Town ready for […]
Since the attack, there’s a lot of talk and questions flying around. What exactly did the attackers want? Were the attackers originally provoked at an earlier date by the people from inside the temple? How did the attackers even get in? According to Gothamist, there were cops stationed outside and […]
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man. A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down. And he heard again his mother’s words: “Don’t take your guns to town, son. Leave […]
The idea that the East River could be as sacred to me as, say, the Ganga is to Hindus, Mount Arafat is to Muslims, the Bodhi Tree is to Buddhists, Skull Mountain (Golgotha) is to Christians, is probably one of the most important possibilities to me. As a spiritual exile—one […]
There’s so much to talk about when looking into the history of Easter. First, there’s its proximity to Passover. Than, there’s the Christian story of Jesus rising from the dead. Than there’s the pagan tradition of Oestre. Than there’s the whole Jesus-as-Sun-God Easter-is-astrological reading. Than there’s the New York City […]
For many people, the thought of traveling on two four-and-a-half hour bus rides in as many days to play a twenty-minute set at a punk show sounds like a veritable hell on Earth. But, this is what I do now and again, and try to get into the trip itself […]
As a result of New Jersey Catholics not really doing the Jewish thing, when I was a kid Jews were a complete mystery to me. I didn’t know even Jews did the Jewish thing until I went to college and met, and subsequently made out with, one young lass, and […]
Been traveling a bit this weekend, and haven’t had a chance to write anything amazing and wonderful, so I thought I’d post a few things I came across while doing the web. Brooklyn-centric bloggers, Brooklyn Based, have a got a nice piece on local “placentophagy,” or the practice of eating […]
You’ve got four days left to sign up for my “Start Yr Own Religion” class at 3rd Ward located in the quaint village of Bushwick deep within the greater hamlet of Brooklyn. It’s fun for the whole family and will allow you to finally organize into one cohesive faith all […]
