Last fall, Chiwan Choi invited me to guest-edit this issue of Cultural Weekly. What’s the theme? Open. Format? Open. Sure, I said. I knew I wanted to ask people to share stories about “gentrification,” but I also knew I wanted to avoid the word, gentrification. I’ve come to realize the power of the word itself …
1. Playing House In my building (A), there were four Mexican families raising their kids in cramped apartments, mine included. There was also one Middle Eastern family where my friend Farhana lived. Her world was always the most intriguing to me for countless reasons, including that I could look into her home through our windows …
“How are you finding the area?” a wolf asks me as he pokes his head through my bedroom door. All I can muster is a mumbled combination of affirmative words tied into a simple grunt. My generally enthusiastic and positive demeanor has taken a back seat for this encounter, this is not the first wolf …
On the first Monday of 2016, an event post on Facebook caught my eye. A small, unknown gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where I live, announced it would be kicking off a year-long search for the neighborhood’s 200 most influential people across categories that included art, nightlife, bars, restaurants and real estate with an event the …
“If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you do not see.” -James Baldwin *** My name is Anthony Rosado. I am a Queer Boricua Cis-Gendered Man. I was raised between Bushwick and Brownsville, New York City, during the transition from their plights against effects of federally planted drugs, guns, …
How do we define culture when it comes to food and drink? In 2013, my city was excited to see a new addition to our lively food and drink milieu. 10 Barrel Brewing was set to open in a high profile location downtown. The brewery had originally opened in Bend, Oregon, with a level of …
Craft Breweries and Local Culture: What’s in a Name? Read More »
Clearly, income disparity is a central plank in Bernie’s campaign. He rants about the “Billionaire class” and excoriates Hillary for being “a tool of Wall Street” in accepting their tainted money. He will have none of it. His campaign is totally financed by individual contributions. Is this political chicanery in an attempt to gain attention or …
Last week I read an article in the New York Times, Souping is the New Juicing, and was intrigued. Serendipitously the following evening I attended a class by “soup guru” Elina Fuhrman at Unplug Meditation. She was introduced by Unplug founder Suze Yalof Schwartz, who guided the eating meditation, which included the mindful tasting of …
Street, Square, Housing and Walkway: the poetics of an “urban set piece” In Montreal East End, diagonally across half a dozen blocs of an old industrial and residential neighborhood, an abandoned railroad right of way has been transformed into a pedestrian walkway, flanked by new residential development and anchored by a new square, at a …
The American family comes in for a drubbing in two productions—The New Group’s revival of Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner Buried Child and the Broadway transfer of Stephen Karam’s The Humans, which could well win the same award for 2016. Both plays tear apart the idealized view of the nuclear clan exposing the disillusionment and …
The American Family Dissected in Buried Child and The Humans Read More »
On February 16, 2016, the National Endowment for the Arts released its new report on the arts and economic growth. No surprise: They are intrinsically linked. Following is the NEA’s press release along with their findings in infographic form. Today’s creative economy gets a big boost from the arts, according to new data from the …
$704 Billion. That's what the arts contribute to our economy Read More »
“A man does not uproot himself from life, and cast his self away; Unconsciously he dreams some part of him will stay…Nor from his cast-off body does he depart enough and free himself.” – Lucretius *** There was a hurricane today, in Los Angeles. Trees falling on freeways, stopping traffic. Winds moving the downpour of rain …
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