Curious thing we’ve noticed in our travels up and down the Mid-Altantic: Cigarettes are much more more expensive in Bushwick, compared to, say, their cost in Virginia, proud home of the largest U.S. tobacco conglomerate, the former Philip Morris*.
We learned this fact at a convenience store conveniently located off an exit of of I-95, near Fredericksburg, […]
When you name your musical duo “We Are The Wilderness,” you might encounter people wondering to whom the “We” in the name refers. Is the “We” just the two band members, in some private wilderness of their own devising? Or is the We an more all-inclusive […]
So we heard a tip from someone who lives over on Beaver street about an excellent taco wagon usually parking itself on Broadway and Stuyvesant, near the JMZ Myrtle stop. The festively bright yellow Antojitos Mexicos, as its called, is usually parked somewhere not too far from Moar →
When the Student is ready, the Master appears, as the old hippie Zen disciples liked to impart. Why, just this afternoon, we were lamenting how we didn’t see any Twitter-sprung verse about life in Brooklyn’s always poetic 83rd District. Before Twitter, there was Moar →
Today we enjoyed some Mexican Street Corn*, in the rain, from a cart on Knickerbocker and Starr. A steaming cob of corn is unwrapped from the husk, pushed onto a stick, gently slathered with mayonnaise, rolled around and dusted with parmesan cheese and then sprinkled judiciously with hot chili pepper…
Must be tried to be […]
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