Books and Music

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Greenlight Bookstore in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, N.Y. was recently the setting for a new music video called “Good Kisser” from the group Lake Street Dive.

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Wild Books

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”                                                               Virginia Woolf 

 

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Sign, sign everywhere a sign

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Mean Streets of Dublin

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Red Light District

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

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Put A Ring On It

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

© Josema Cutillas

To celebrate the Concéntrico International Festival of Architecture and Design, the Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique encircled the Instituo Esudios Riojanos in Logroño, Spain, with a gigantic faux gold ring. Unfortunately, RINGdeLUXE will only be in place through May.

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Be More Pirate

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

First-time author San Conniff Allende’s new book Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win is all about audacity and risk taking. To prove that he walks the walk, Allende, disguised as a contractor, plastered an eight-meter-long pink fluorescent advertising banner for the book across the facade of the London headquarters of his publisher, Penguin Random House. No word yet on the response to the guerrilla marketing campaign from the publishers.

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Save America’s Oldest Bookstore

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

 

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New York Secrets

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

If you can’t live in New York City, or even visit whenever you want, the next best thing may be this brand new periodical about NYC life. Civilization,  which is co-edited by Richard Turley, Mia Kerin, and Lucas Mascetello, is a magazine in a broadsheet newspaper format, with a decidedly old-school layout and design aesthetic.

The aim of Civilization is to provide an antidote to disposable digital media, while exploring the nitty gritty realities of New York City life in the 21st century. Issue #1 features stories about the music scene, shopping, eating, drugs, terrorism, sex, shoplifting, dancing, and much more. If you can’t get a copy in person, it’s possible to buy one online.

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The Kind of Books They Read

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

William Carlos Williams

 

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