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Black Helmet, After Poems and Fake Book Reviews

Black Helmet is a DJ who knows how to make people move. All I can say is he spins records that have a ton of soul, and that he makes me think of a passionate chemist having an excellent time…

Great Copy

Go out into the country.

The spring days which come in mid-winter are among the best of the year. They never fail to appear in January or early February.

Go into the country now.

Do not wait for Easter. It

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8/26: Poems and Fake Book Reviews Party in Brooklyn

Come celebrate the release of Poems and Fake Book Reviews at Veronica People’s Club in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Thursday, August 26. Come around 7 p.m. for the good drink deals, as happy hour ends at 8. The DJ comes on…

Fake Book Review 17

Professional Bowling in Hollywood: A Novel in 16 Acts Radfried Honeysuckle. M.M. Farrow Books, $22 (236p) 000-0-000-00001-8

Honeysuckle has become synonymous with drugstore noir, and writing for him is a walk in the park— he comes out with a novel…

We Can Now Eat Canned Shark

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Down in Chinatown

After seeing Yundi perform Chopin at Carnegie Hall last night, we headed to Chinatown for a snack before going to the bar. One pointed to the Fen Yang Corporation, on 107 Eldridge Street. “They have good cheap pork noodle soup,”…

Hefner, Hollywood . . . and Chicago Review

From this week’s New Yorker:

Last week, the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based organization of “underdevelopers,” announced that it had raised $12.5 million to buy Cahuenga Peak, a hundred and thirty-eight acres of unspoiled ridgeline that extends to

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Honest Questions Corner

It’s been around for a little while, so now’s a little late to be bringing this up, but anyway I’m curious for the DE-pinion: Surely I’m not the only one baffled by the fact that Dunkin’ Donuts offers…