Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! It is no hyperbole to say that if anyone had a leading role in defining the visual culture of hip-hop it was Cey Adams. The early days of Run-D.M.C.? Cey Adams was there. The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Slick Rick? Cey Adams designed some of their most iconic album covers. Public Enemy, Biggie, DMX, Jay-Z? Them too. Usher, Mary J. Blige? Cey Adams was there. Born and raised in New Yo ..read more

 Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! There’s a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln that seems apropos to today, broadly speaking: “I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.” I’m thinking of it because my guests “Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast” this week have been mining humor from our contemporary political landscape since 2011, when they crashed an Occupy Wall Street demonstration dressed as bankers i ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Dan Perlman is a comedian, writer and director in Brooklyn. He is perhaps best known as the co-creator, writer and star of Showtime’s critically-acclaimed comedy series, “Flatbush Misdemeanors,” which was sadly not renewed after its much lauded and pitch-perfect two season run. Don’t count Dan out though. He’s still making things — short things, for now. Much as “Flatbush Misdemeanors ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Erick Elliott, better known as Erick the Architect, is a rapper, singer, artist, producer and, since 2010, one-third of the beloved Brooklyn hip-hop group, the Flatbush Zombies. In February, he dropped his first full-length solo album, “I’ve Never Been Here Before,” which features collaborations with a range of artists from Lalah Hathaway to James Blake, to Joey Bada$$, to George Clin ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! What makes a story a New York story? Maybe it’s seeing a drag queen emerge from a manhole cover on Canal Street in a full look at 6:30 a.m. Or it could be a woman carrying a bag with a rambunctious live eel in it onto the subway to the shock of absolutely no one. The thing is, you know a New York story when you’ve got one. “It’s very tempting to sort of use that old Justice Potter quo ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Most New Yorkers don’t need an introduction to Veselka. The beloved restaurant at 144 Second Avenue in the East Village has been a linchpin of the Ukrainian expat community since Wolodymyr Darmochwal opened it up as a corner store in 1954. These days it’s known for its comfort food — its borscht, its pierogis — and its comfortable, welcoming vibe. One of the last of many Slavic restau ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! It’s a good time in New York — even just Brooklyn — to take in some live comedy. Union Hall, The Bell House and Littlefield are just three clubs clustered in the center of the borough that have some of the most exciting regular live comedy offerings in the country. UCB — the Upright Citizen’s Brigade — will be returning to the city in a brand new theater in Manhattan. And The Second C ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! If you think about stuffed crust pizza at all — and why wouldn’t you? — chances are you associate it with Pizza Hut, which rolled out its game-changing product 29 years ago with a star studded ad campaign that featured everyone from Ringo Starr to John McEnroe to Donald Trump. Of course someone had to have the idea to stick cheese inside the crust before baking the pie, which in retro ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Jack Reacher is a mountain of a man. A former U.S. Army Military Police major with extensive investigative and combat experience who now lives — to use his word — as a “hobo.” He is a drifter, traveling from town to town across the United States, occasionally finding himself in trouble, occasionally seeking it out — as.was the case in Season 2 of the Amazon Prime series “Reacher,” a s ..read more

Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Often, for alcoholics, there really isn’t such a thing as a rock bottom, so much as a series of bottoms, a downward cascade like those cartoon characters that fall off a cliff and bounce from a ledge to a tree limb to another ledge. There’s always something lower and more painful after the last part of the fall. In “The White Chip,” Sean Daniels’ autobiographical dark comedy, the fall ..read more