Diamond Girl: How Mae West Brought ‘Sex’ and Scandal to Broadway
PODCAST Mae West (star of I’m No Angel and She Done Him Wrong) would come to revolutionize the idea of American sexuality,
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Bushwick
Ungentrified: Brooklyn in the 1970s
The new Bowery Boys podcast that comes out this Friday will be about Brooklyn. So let’s get in the mood
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Haunted Hipsters: Four Ghost Stories of Brooklyn
Dark skies over the Brooklyn Bridge, from a 1905 postcard (courtesy MCNY) PODCAST Brooklyn is the setting for this quartet
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Notes from the podcast: (#141) New York Beer History
Year-Round Brews: This calendar from 1895 celebrates the Harlem breweries of James Everard. An older Everard brewery building on W. 28th
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On The House: A history of New York City beer brewing
Behold the lager: A German variety of beer revolutionized American drinking, inspiring a new kind of drinking establishment (Courtesy the
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Blackout ’77! Still frightening, thirty-five years later
Here’s a few images — many of them quite well-known — of the New York City blackout, which occurred 35
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Watch out for those naked Brooklyn lady ghosts!
Above: The unusual weather this weekend left my pumpkin with an unfortunate new hairstyle. We hope you all have a
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Notes from the Podcast (#130) Haunted Histories of NYC
We had a terrific time recording this year’s ghost-story show — Haunted Histories of New York. Here’s some extra details
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