Monthly Archives: May 2013

Food and Drink, Lifestyle

Brother Jimmy’s BBQ Announces New Desserts and Boozy Beverages

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Brother Jimmys Dessert Menu
Menu from Dessert Tasting Event (Above Photo By Gail, All Food Photos By Anne Raso)

No matter how full I am from eating a meal, 90% of the time, I want to also have dessert. Because that is how roll.

Apple Crumb Pies Etc
Red Velvet Cake (Top Tier) and Apple Crumb Pie (Lower Tier)

Brother Jimmy’s BBQ is a place that will likely leave you feeling very satisfied after a meal of their ribs, chicken and other specialties – because their food is amazing. But on future visits you might have a more challenging time saying no to one of their home baked sweet treats, because they have just created a New Dessert Menu on which every pie, cake and ice cream creation is delicious. I know, because I tasted everything. Continue reading Brother Jimmy’s BBQ Announces New Desserts and Boozy Beverages →

Music, Pop Culture

Free Download, Modern Machines’ Welcome To The Machine Vol 1

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Modern Machines Welcome

Check out the latest mix by Modern Machines, the New York based electro-duo consisting of Dimitry Mak and Kapla. The pair has been fine-tuning their production chops and are now welcoming fans to the machine with volume one of their latest mix series. Continue reading Free Download, Modern Machines’ Welcome To The Machine Vol 1 →

Music, Pop Culture

Top Ten Reasons Why The Hangover Part III Is Not as Horrible as You Might Expect

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Hangover 3 Movie Poster

10. Knowing there won’t be a Hangover 4.

9. That Big House in Mexico with the Infinity Pool: I want to live there.

8. Danzig’s “Mother 93” on the soundtrack. Appropriate.

7. “Cut the Grey Wire.”

6. Two Words: Pig Masks.

5. Giraffe Scene, Pre-decapitation.

4. Coke-fueled orgy in a hotel suite sound tracked by Black Sabbath: Yes.

3. “Because of the Ink…that went inside you.”

2. Melissa McCarthy as Cassie the Pawn Shop employee. Priceless.

1. Bradley Cooper: Gorgeous for Days.

Arts and Culture

White Snow By Paul McCarthy

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White Snow Sculpture By Paul McCarthy
Photo By Gail

This massive, black walnut wood carved sculpture of what appears to be a mirrored image likeness of Snow White stands about 14 feet tall and can currently be seen on display as part of Paul McCarthy’s Sculptures exhibit at Hauser and Wirth’s cavernous new 18th Street space. However, McCarthy calls this character White Snow, since he is riffing on the classic German fairy tale and also the Disney adaption from the late thirties. If you think this is wild, you should see what he does with the dwarves…

Sculptures By Paul McCarthy will be on Exhibit Through June 1st, 2013 at Hauser and Wirth, Located at 511 West 18th Street in the Chelsea Gallery District.

Music, Pop Culture

Recommended Listening: Kurt Vile, Wakin’ On a Pretty Daze

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Kurt Vile Wakin On A Pretty Daze CD Cover
Album Cover Art By Steve Powers!

When it comes to modern music, not much impresses me these days. If you look back over the past few years at any Top 10 Albums list I might have compiled – in those years where I was even able to cobble together such a list at all – you’ll see it’s comprised partly of comeback records by classic rockers, greatest hits packages or tribute albums that revisit the material of a legendary artist. That’s rather pathetic, I know, for a writer who once embraced the tagline ‘Rock Critic at Large,’ but it is what it is. I don’t apologize for being unable to shake the feeling that the best years for popular music are, for the most part, 30 – or even 40 – years behind us. Continue reading Recommended Listening: Kurt Vile, Wakin’ On a Pretty Daze →