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Fette Sau in Williamsburg is the kind of restaurant that always ends up being more expensive than you thought it would be.  Part of this is because of the restaurant’s style - you wait in line for your food, it’s carved onto a piece of paper, you sit on benches - and part of it [...]

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Going out on a limb here: Suckers will break out in 2009.  I feel so-so about saying these things, making these irresponsible predictions, but I think it just might happen.  They have the perfect sound for our terrifying times: weird orchestral howls, a singer who sings like the guy from Wolf Parade.  Slightly menacing pop.  [...]

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You get what you pay for.  That’s what I’ve been told, and I never had any reason to disagree until I left college and started getting cool shit for free.  Sure, there was a college pub/venue that didn’t cost anything, but I always felt that my staggering tuition was an advance payment for, say, Enon [...]

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Went to a party on Friday night.  An n+1 party.  Yeah.
n+1 parties, it turns out, are precisely what you’d expect.  The veneer of enlightenment - of serious, critical theory - is mostly manifested through name-dropping and job-dropping and school-dropping (speaking of which, I ran into a couple Carleton people, which was what it was), and [...]

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What a shame - this concert had so much potential, unfortunately unrealized, and it ended up a disappointment.  As for the bands: I only saw Amazing Baby and Violens, so I can’t comment on Chairlift -  easily the most hyped band of the night - but the two bands I did see are also leading [...]

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It’s time again to discuss my favorite gut-busting subject.  I haven’t had any new burritos of late, but I returned to Taco Chulo, Yola’s, and Tacobite.  In brief:
Taco Chulo’s burritos are terrifying and massive.  I forget what I got but it was just way too much food, and I believe it contributed to nearly a [...]

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That’s the question I have every time I walk down Metropolitan Avenue, in Williamsburg. Why? Because the land under the BQE is like an untapped oil field, or if that’s a little too much for you, like a wind turbine that’s yet to be raised: pure potential.
Dead zones around expressways aren’t unprecedented in New York: [...]

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A great, underpopulated show, featuring a completely glammed out Emily Haines singing backup on a few songs with Tall Firs.  Haines has a great voice and is a totally arresting presence, and Tall Firs play wonderfully atmospheric rock - kinda like a more accessible Six Organs of Admittance - even if they can’t sing to [...]

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[Pictures coming soon, possibly by Sunday.  Whenever I can head down to Lee Avenue and discreetly snap some photos.
The first thing I noticed last Sunday as I walked around Lee Avenue?  The children’s footwear.  Crocs of all colors, green and teal and black and white, strapped to the feet of young pais-bearing boys and ankle-dressed [...]

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One of the coolest parts of the Lee Avenue rise is Hasidic fashion, which is way different from average, white-bread fashion we all deal with in this boring, fashion-backwards sticksville known as New York City.  When I talk about the Lee Avenue rise, I’m making up a term; here’s what I’m actually talking about:

I often head down [...]

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