Photo: Tamara Hellgren
13th Annual Kent Street Festival [AscensionChurch]
Feel of old Havana’s La Floridita coming to Rose Live Music [hotindienews]
Archives for September 2009
The Daily Photo: Wythe Ave in 1940, Sept 23, 2009
South 1st Street west to Wythe Avenue showing Fulton Bag Cotton Mills Building, 1940, photo by brooklynpix.com
Kent Bike Lane Causing Williamsburg Truck Trauma [Gothamist]
Bean there: Cafe Grumpy is roasting its own coffee now [BrooklynPaper]
The Daily Photo + Links
Photo: visual-archeology.com
Nada Surf leads effort to make old Engine 212 a cultural center [DailyNews]
Genuine Motorworks
195 N 14th Street
Greenpoint
718.486.6971
www.genuinemotorworks.com/
Store hours: Mon-Sun, 12pm-8pm
By Jennifer Ching
The book “Chopper Shaman,” about the life and Legacy of Indian Larry, is on sale at the store, $24.95.
Art Magazine Reviews
WG reads a few local art magazines. All are available at Spoonbill & Sugartown in Williamsburg and at bookstores throughout Manhattan.
the journal
Entry No 26, quarterly, $15
Compact and glossy, the journal holds like a soft-cover novel but with the vibrant pages of a coffee-table book. This publication is like nothing else out there. Yes, it has interviews and photo spreads, but much of the content farts in the face of convention.
A case in point would be the exquisite-corpse drawings in the Salon XXVI section, in which artists Jack Pierson, Dan McCarthy, and Anton and Linus Kern team up to concoct freaky, incongruent humanoids. Equally confounding is a segment with Caroline Polachek, of the band Chairlift, commenting on cartoony drawings by music editor Andrew Kuo—in lieu of a straightforward Q & A.
The best part of the journal, however, has to be the supplemental artist’s booklet, this time featuring Beat Generation artist George Herms, whose collages and assemblages seem to carry mystical powers. In an accompanying interview between Herms and editor-in-chief Michael Nevin, the artist rambles eloquently about life as a creative person in McCarthy-era Los Angeles, D.H. Lawrence’s poetry, Futurism, and his stint as a PTA president in Topanga Canyon. The interview ends with Nevin and Herms exchanging I-love-yous.