Photo: McCarren Park Pool
When Festivals Collide and Freethinkers Meet [NYT]
Greenpoint Guy Has ‘Grown To Love Scaring People’ [BrooklynEagle]
Archives for September 2009
DJ Small Change, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
$mall ¢hange, Hardest Working Mofo DJ in Williamsburg
(“Won’t Stop, Can’t Stop,” be his motto)
On the scene since the early 90s, world-renowned DJ $mall ¢hange, 37, has a crazy amount of energy. He does weddings, corporate and public events, and alternative dance parties at undisclosed locations. He was featured in the New York Times with his huge collection of 40,000 vinyls, and has a long-running weekly show Monday nights from 11pm – 2am on WFMU. $mall ¢hange is also on East Village Radio on Wednesdays from 4-6pm His tastes run the gamut from house to 70s disco to variations of Michael Jackson in different languages, dub, and funk. I like him because he isn’t just one thing.
Newtown Creek Narratives Make Pollution Personal
The Toll of Contamination
By Athena Ponushis, Photo by Maria Howell
Laura Hoffman grew tomatoes in her backyard. She made sauce. She fed her six children. But every morning, when the stay-at-home mom would walk out to her Greenpoint garden, she would see her tomatoes were grey – yes, grey – as if someone had dumped an ashtray on her red fruit. This was the mid-‘80s. Laura simply picked up her hose and washed the ash off her food.
Televangelize This! The Revolution Church in Williamsburg
By Ethan Pettit (With portions contributed by Amelia Blanquera)
Photos by William Hereford
What is surprising about pastor Jay Bakker is not only that he is covered in tattoos, wears a lip ring, and preaches Galatians on Sundays at a bar in Greenpoint. And not only that his ministry, the Revolution Church, which he shares with a dapper Lutheran from Fresno named Vince Anderson, is gay affirming.
