10 12 / 2015
Sonny and the Sunsets: Antenna to the Afterworld
This came out in 2013, but was the record I listened to the most this year.
10 12 / 2015
Jim O'Rourke - Friends With Benefits
Really enjoying the new Jim O'Rourke - Friends With Benefits
10 12 / 2015
The U.S. Has A Mass Shooting Epidemic, But No Government Database On Gun Violence
Three years ago, in July 2012, journalist Mark Follman heard about the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting rampage that left 12 people dead and felt compelled to learn more — not just about that incident, but about all the mass shootings that were occurring in America.
Follman, the national affairs editor of Mother Jones Magazine, began looking for information online, but it soon became evident that no good databases about the subject existed.
“I found a couple of perfunctory timelines that highlighted a couple of major attacks over the years, but that was it,” Follman explains to Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “My response to that was just to think, ‘This is crazy. How could there not be more information on this?’ ”
So Follman gathered a team of colleagues and began building his own database that would collect information such as how often mass shootings occur, who the perpetrators are and what weapons are being used.
Among his findings is the fact that 80 percent of the perpetrators in these attacks have used legally obtained firearms, and that a copycat effect often plays a big part in mass shootings.
Follman notes that the Columbine shooters, who shot up their high school in 1999, have a cult following, “The tragedy that they perpetrated became so seared into the public consciousness that it’s created this whole culture online where you can go and there’s people who obsess over their words and their images, and a lot of the people who have carried out these attacks since then … have cited them as an inspiration.”
Photo: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images
22 5 / 2011
Smorgasburg Debuts Saturday On The Williamsburg Waterfront
image via NY Times
via Brooklyn Flea:
Starting May 21, we’re launching an all-food bonanza called “Smorgasburg”—every Saturday at the new Williamsburg site from 9am to 5pm….
20 5 / 2011
Self-Proclaimed Hipster Sets up “Hipster Church” in New York’s Least Hip Neighborhood
Listen all you godless heathens, your gig is up. Reverand Gage Jung, has gone and set up a church for you. A hip church. Where they hand out Hipster Church wristbands on the street, read…
17 5 / 2011
Metropolitan Ave. Bagelsmith Location Opens!
Bagel lovers: rejoice! Bagelsmith has opened a Lorimer Street/Metropolitan Avenue location of their popular shop which offers a large variety of bagels, spreads, sandwich meats, and…
16 5 / 2011
Woodkid – Iron
Best video of the year so far?
Woodkid – Iron from WOODKID on Vimeo.
What a breath of fresh air after drowning in a avalanche of found footage music videos. Not a bad jam either.