Issue 35
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Emergency Exit: 5 Things You Should Know If You Need An Ambulance

There are 410 ambulances stationed strategically throughout NYC, nine in Greenpoint and Williamsburg that can reach you in about six minutes. Although an accident might knock your body for a loop, you have more control over your fate than you think. Here are some ways to make the best of a bad situation.

Hollywood Boulevard by Janyce Stefan-Cole Unbridled Books, April 10, 2012: Is the story of a successful actress who walked away, and her deeply personal journey to make sense of success, a journey that takes her to L.A.’s dark side, into noirish intrigue.

“Hollywood Boulevard” excerpt from debut novel

“Hollywood Boulevard” a brand new debut novel by Williamsburg resident Janyce Stefan-Cole, in the noire tradition.
Available at WORD Bookstore
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
wordbrooklyn.com

Revelers toast at One Stop Beer Shop.  Photo by Benjamin Lozovsky

Hoppy Hour—Craft Beer Explodes onto the Scene

The baby boomers had their revolution—civil rights, women’s rights, anti-war, anti-poverty—and now their children are having their own: the craft beer revolution….

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Time to Hit the Dirt: Starting from Seed

By Kimberly Sevilla
Owner, Rose Red & Lavender

I love seeds. I like looking at the catalogs, reading the descriptions, trying the varieties, saving them, collecting them, and trading them. I enjoy talking to seed growers and sellers and getting all nerdy about the different cultivators and reminiscing.

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Grape and Cacao—wine and chocolate pairings at BOE

It used to be a simpler world for chocolate and wine, a world made up mostly of port and a lot less top-tier dark chocolate. As the chocolate industry shifted toward more artisanal producers that feature single-origin bars and unique infusions, the options for pairing table wines greatly increased.

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Alex Melamid, Artist Healer-in-Residence

Melamid split from Komar in 2004. At 66 years old, his work leans so far to the edge of irony that it makes Duchamp look conservative. These days, Melamid is concerned with reaching a greater public beyond the walls of museums…

Installation view of Charles Atlas’s video projections “Plato’s Alley,” 2008 (left), and “Painting by Numbers,” 2011. Photo courtesy Luhring Augustine Bushwick

Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—March 2012

What makes these works most magical is Altas’s power to turn six boring numerals into things of grace and near limitless capacity. If Luhring Augustine keeps mounting exhibitions as good as this one, we should hope they stick around Bushwick for a long time


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