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Astro Poets Find Meaning in the Stars, One Tweet at a Time
Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov only fight about one topic: the moon landing. Whether it actually happened is a topic of frequent debate among the New York poets, also known as the Astro Poets, the duo behind the popular, cult-favorite Twitter account @PoetAstrologers. “As poets, the moon is always this really important thing,” says Lasky, […]
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Pazz & Jop: Outsiders, Punks, and Poets Raise Their Voices
This past year — the year of mainstream reckoning with toxic masculinity; the year a racist with a history of sexual assault took office — demanded we pay closer attention to the outsiders, punks, and poets who’ve long been holding a microscope to all sorts of societally empowered men: cops, politicians, bosses, bandmates. In some […]
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Making Sense Of Restorative Justice, Community Response, And The PWR BTTM Fallout
Last Thursday, as social media posts began circulating calling PWR BTTM’s Ben Hopkins a “known sexual predator” and accusing the singer and guitarist of alleged sexual assault, the band tried to head off the backlash with a post on Facebook. “To address this matter head on, we have set up an email address through which a survivor […]
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Brooklyn’s Modern Love Brings Vegan Punk Ethos to the Table
Isa Chandra Moskowitz describes the menu of Modern Love, her recently opened Williamsburg restaurant, as “swanky vegan comfort food,” but mostly it’s just inspired by the food she ate growing up here in the city. “When people think comfort food, they might think Southern, but I just look at all different types of food that […]
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The Julie Ruin
In 1997, feminist punk icon Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill retreated to her bedroom to create an excellent home-recorded solo album titled Julie Ruin. Six years later, this past June, Hanna’s vision for the project expanded into a full-band affair with a fast and fierce punk song “Oh Come On.” It’s from their forthcoming full […]