New year, same shit?
Many issues remain heading into 2018: homelessness, climate change, a widening wage gap, a burgeoning police state, and the still-surreal problem of an orange-skinned, Fox and Friends fiend...
January 5, 2018/
Delirium and solidarity at the 2018 NYC Women’s March (against Trump)
Staying politically conscious in the Trump era has felt disorientating--like some frightening dissociative psychedelic that came on way stronger and quicker than anticipated....
January 23, 2018/
What does NYC do on 911’s anniversary?
For 9/11's 17-year anniversary, I walked all over Lower Manhattan. This is what I saw....
September 12, 2018/
Harold Hunter 12 years later–navigating skate culture and sobriety
Harold Hunter was an influential NYC skater who died from an overdose in his LES apartment. His story reflects a struggle well-known in the skate community....
June 16, 2018/
December
Juxtaposed against the city that never sleeps is the spontaneous magic of love in NYC....
December 26, 2017/
Blood, sweat and piss on the streets of NYC
Photographer Nolan Trowe shares some local views from the 2017 New York City Marathon....
December 26, 2017/
Acts of kindness
Whether it's someone giving up their seat for me on a crowded subway, or simply picking up my cane if I drop it on the icy ground, it's the small things that count the most....
January 23, 2018/
On selfies
A hermeneutic examination of the philosophic relationship between selfies and identity...
March 28, 2018/
My cathartic exchange over soldier exploitation
Soldiers are exploited by things they’ve been convinced they shouldn’t bother thinking about....
June 6, 2018/
Getting off the hedonic treadmill–words of wisdom from Terence Mckenna
Life itself is hijacked when all experience becomes a chore list...
May 6, 2018/
Cessation as revolutionary—the morbid reality of tobacco-use disparities
The most profound realizations shrink against the fundamental reasons people cope with addictive behaviors in the first place....
January 30, 2018/