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Apartment Creeper Interview #1 – Are you sh#ting me? A – No, this is every bit as real and messed up as it seems

I still remember the first Walker Evans show I went to. It was nine years ago at the Museum of Modern Art, and it was endless galleries of beautiful black and white prints—stark, solemn, and striking. Evans was providing a visual history lesson, and I was listening. The duality of photography as both expression and [...]

Here’s the thing about water: You can add stuff to it and make it taste really good. We’re not talking Crystal Light or Kool-Aid here, we’re talkin’ turning water into a meal. What? Water into a meal, are you crazy, you ask. I’m not crazy, but I am old school and being old school means [...]

Stencil1 Crafty Book Launch, Saturday, December 5, 2009, 4-6pm, The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. For more information, go here. Ed Roth is one of those artistic do it alls. He’s a graphic artist, stencil maker, animator, and former gallerist. He’s like a design compass that is continually pointing toward the next trend. [...]

Once my sourdough starter was bubbly and sour I was ready to bake—or so I thought. I still needed a few added kitchen tools for my bread endeavor. First off, I wanted to buy a mixer, otherwise I was going to have to mix this bread by hand. I went the hand mixer route because [...]

It seems as though after a long week of work all I want to do is make something comforting on a Sunday. This past week was busy with social and work dinners, and I wanted to assemble a dish that took little preparation time, but was still hearty. Wishing the weather was a bit more [...]

When you’re low on funds and can’t afford premium cable, you still have options. Fill the cable void by watching old DVDs, borrow rom-coms and slasher flicks from friends or do what all the tech savvy dirties do, rip and burn TV shows.  (I’m not sayin’ we do that in our household…I’m just sayin’) Our [...]

After reading Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food (see last week’s post), I’m trying to eliminate processed foods from my diet. It’s hard and weird and not so easy when you’re starving and all you want is macaroni and cheese. But I’m trying, and I realize that until I move off the grid, it might [...]

In just one short/long week we’re having a baby! My husband + I live in Bkln…in a charming little 650sf “open space” (aka studio). Yes, we have a basement + a big backyard, but the real “livable” space is itty bitty…which has worked for us thus far ’cause we’re kind of itty bitty ourselves. But [...]

When I moved to New York, one of the first culture “shocks” I felt, or rather that my shoulders and back felt, was the fact that I had to carry everything myself. I no longer had a car to stash and transport gym clothes, groceries or laundry. I bought a little granny cart for the [...]