September 2009
8 posts
Good Vibrations, Awesome Vistas
Portland-based artist Chris Johanson makes deceptively naive work whose honesty and exuberance draws from folk and street art, and the punk DIY ethic. For his next project, a limited-edition, vinyl-only record label called Awesome Vistas, he’s bringing friends together to create art and music in the same spirit of community, collaboration and “good vibes.”
Why a record label?
I always...
New York: Eastside Theory
More than 8 million people live in New York City. Of that, nearly 2.5 million live in Brooklyn, the city’s largest borough. If Brooklyn were it’s own city, it would be America’s fourth largest. Where Manhattan is skyscrapers and glamour and The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island are still largely working class and family neighborhoods, Brooklyn is a little bit of it all. It’s neighborhoods are rich...
Louis Terline at Oak
Oak, the big white box on Williamsburg’s North 8th St. is not an exclusive club, insists Louis Terline. The 3-year-old clothing store, which stocks everything from 3.1 phillip lim to Cheap Monday to the sculpturally elaborate New York label Harmon, is simply a place he and partner Jeff Madalena put things they like. It’s an open admissions society for those with “fashionable dreams,”...
Tha Pumpsta
“I don’t know any other rapper-painters that are doing styling for Ralph Lauren,” says Jeremy Parker, a Southern white boy whose perhaps unfortunately named “Kill Whitie” dance parties led one of America’s largest newspapers, The Washington Post, to call him a racist. The Brooklyn resident is currently finishing a new album under the name Tha Pumpsta in between making art and creating looks for a...
Dedicated ass shakers used to head into Manhattan for a good dance party. Lately though, the best sweaty, attitude-free dance floors are in Brooklyn. In the past year, Justice, the Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco and Chromeo have all packed Studio B, a massive venue in the heart of Brooklyn’s up-and-coming Greenpoint neighborhood. And over in Park Slope, DJ collective The Rub has thrown the city’s...
New federal welfare law could take a toll on N.H.
Sunday, April 30, 2006 The Keene Sentinel
Nika Carlson Sentinel Staff
Come October, New Hampshire must put hundreds more welfare recipients back to work, putting pressure not only on the state, but on support networks for those new workers.
Under the new requirements, part of the federal Deficit Reduction Act, half of eligible recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families must spend 30...
People everywhere got to have Free
The hot Freecycle Web site isn’t just a good place to find goods and services, it’s become a community of friends
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
The Oregonian
Nika Carlson
Through the Web site Freecycle, people give and take — literally, freely, liberally. People post a request or offer, hoping someone has what they want or wants what they have. Ask for a woodstove, get it for...