Published , guide_brookly
Cover photo by Ed Zipco
 JEFF JENSEN HAS LIVED HERE FOREVER
Jeff Jensen isn’t the original Williamsburg goon, but he’s been living in the neighborhood for so long that just thinking about it is giving us beards. Unlike 95 percent of the 35-and-under population, Jeff’s been kicking around the area since the 90s when the...Read more |
  A BRIEF HISTORY OF BROOKLYN CURIOSITIES
THE GREAT MONK-PARROT SHOWDOWN OF 1973
Since at least 1971, but possibly as early as 1967, Brooklyn has had a native monk-parrot population. Most expert ornithological sources agree the parrots most likely flew the coop upon landing at JFK while en...Read more |
 KINGS HIGHWAY TO HELL
Recently, Vice made me spend a Sunday afternoon on a quest of sexual perversion and depravity, to a place so disgusting it may have changed my fundamental views on sex forever. Nearly at the edge of Brooklyn, the Kings Highway Cinema isn’t your ordinary multip...Read more |
 THE MOST INTERESTING HOMES I COULD FIND IN BROOKLYN
If you’re new to Brooklyn you might assume that it’s an overpriced ex-industrial wasteland that a whole bunch of grimy bars sprung out of, all of them blasting “Children of the Grave” to the point where you are no longer aware it’s playing. You might assume th...Read more |
 BROOKLYN BUTCHERS
Maybe you’ve noticed that everybody is really into eating pig flesh again. Lamb, too. Also duck, elk, quail, and even bunny. This stuff is all over new menus in Brooklyn right now. In general it seems the anemic felchers behind the veggie and raw-food movement...Read more |
 BROOKLYN WATERING HOLES
Myself and esteemed lensman Sterling Caraway were given the task of reviewing Brooklyn’s watering holes. We decided it would be impossible to review them all, so we made a list of our absolute favorites and set off on bicycles to have a drink at each one....Read more |
 NOSH YOURSELF TO NIRVANA
If you don’t eat, you don’t shit, and if you don’t shit, you die. And if you die who knows what’ll happen? Some say you’ll come back again but in a different incarnation, like the form of a fish or a chicken. Others think that when you die you just die, lights...Read more |
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