Last year a native New Yorker told me about Long Island’s best kept secret in East Marion—Lavender by the Bay—but I was unable to go during the peak season. I knew I had to make the trip this summer, so I decided to trek eastward to…
“Abstraction lies at the very heart of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Because the brush mark, in addition to performing a descriptive or semantic role, has always been recognized as a record of the artist’s hand, both painting and calligraphy have been valued for their abstract…
Alright, I’m not one to get all apocalyptic on everyone, but I do think it’s somewhat strange that over the past couple of years both the weather and various natural phenomenon have been particularly intense. Like the hurricane that hit New York, the earthquake in New York,…
Just how much are all of those rocks floating around, traveling at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour in space worth? Well, more than you might think. And at an auction in New York City funded on by Dallas-based organization Heritage Auctions, some of the…
I love me some classic disco. And if you’re one of those that doesn’t mind admitting you too enjoy the upbeat sounds of the 70’s, look no further than the Brooklyn-based group Escort. Turning on Escort’s 2012 debut full-length album is like popping a can…
“The moment when somebody designs an imaginary device, there is a problem of putting the raw idea into practice. That’s why any discovery made this way has lack of details, and usually it is inferior… My method is a different one.” – Nikola Tesla In the…
Not that kind, but we hadn’t heard a good ‘new’ album in what seems like forever, then we heard Real Estate—the band. Their harmonic lyrics like, “all those wasted miles/ all those aimless drives/ our careless lifestyle/ it was not so unwise/ no,” threaded with the…