Taste-Maker Mark Mangan on the Relaunch of Flavorpill
This was 1999, the end of an era, and, as Mark put it, “the nuclear winter of the first .com meltdown. We couldn’t raise any more money, we were a couple months behind rent, just looking down the...
View ArticleYoga and the Pelvic Floor
There are a bunch of muscles [in the pelvic floor] and some have big complicated names, but there are a few simple images that open many doors to understanding.
View ArticleThree Cuts Above the Rest at barbershop salons
As a man looking for a haircut in Brooklyn, one faces a quandary: barber or salon? Barbers have been the go-to choice for men’s haircuts since Ancient Rome, and in the Middle Ages, barbers performed...
View ArticleWho Knew Anyone Reads? Bookstores: 0 Before, 2 Now. Where? Bushwick
From zero bookstores in the past decade or longer, Bushwick now has two of them opening within a week of each other.
View ArticleA Tale of Two Brownfields (reprinted from City Limits)
Even as a city program for cleaning up contaminated sites shows promise, two tainted areas in Brooklyn reflect different challenges that remediation can face – like pricetags and politics.
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