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    • Athom Café: I Just Got a Baguette on Broadway!

      July 3rd, 2009


      Athom Café on Broadway at Dodworth, across from Goodbye Blue Monday. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

      One day about a month or two ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a café opened on Broadway and Dodworth. There was no…

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    • Bushwick Glamorous?: Beauty Bar Hits Broadway

      June 1st, 2009


      A whirl of activity at newly-opened Beauty Bar on Broadway. — Photo by Diego Cupolo

      Is there anything hipsters like less than being told that they’re hipsters? A few months back, in my hometown of San Francisco, an…

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    • Tackling Difficult Urban Issues Through Mini-Golf

      May 18th, 2009


      Possible location for The Putting Lot. — Photo courtesy of The Putting Lot website.

      Vacant lots are, in some ways, the purest, most tragic form of urban blight. Some time back, in rougher days, someone — be it…

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    • Tacos La Hacienda: True to Its Own Self

      April 7th, 2009


      Tacos La Hacienda at DeKalb and Wyckoff. — Photos by Willy Staley

      Call me petty, but one of my least favorite things about New York is how obnoxiously named so many businesses are. This is especially apparent in…

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    • ‘Bushwick Day’ 90s Mixtape

      March 2nd, 2009

      Though he made the name famous, Bushwick Bill is certainly not the only rapper to come out of this fair section of Brooklyn. Wake Your Daughter Up has recently posted a mixtape called “Bushwick Day.”…

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    • Bosna Express: Sarajevo to Ridgewood

      February 24th, 2009


      Bosna Express under the Forest M. — Photo by Willy Staley

      Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official tourism site calls the Balkan nation “The Heart Shaped Land.” While that is a nice sentiment — the nation really looks like an…

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    • Bushwick: The Man and the Hood Have Changed

      February 11th, 2009

      In New York, rappers are inseparable from their neighborhoods. Biggie and Bed-Stuy; Nas and Queensbridge; Cam’ron and Harlem; 50 Cent and Connecticut. The list goes on. But what does it say about your neighborhood when it shares a name…

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