Revel in New York is a city and culture guide for curious travelers and locals alike. Through our original videos we introduce you to interesting New Yorkers that range from established artists, chefs, and musicians to the equally charismatic characters operating outside the margins of ...
Revel in New York is a city and culture guide for curious travelers and locals alike. Through our original videos we introduce you to interesting New Yorkers that range from established artists, chefs, and musicians to the equally charismatic characters operating outside the margins of popular culture. All of our videos are presented with our subject's personal recommendations about their favorite things to do in New York City as well as their suggestions on books, music, films and the cultural interests that have shaped their tastes. It is true that our character selection is subjective based upon people we like, but we hope you'll like them too, or at least find them interesting.
Show allCorduroy. So cool in the summer. So warm in the ...
Corduroy. So cool in the summer. So warm in the winter. If denim is the fabric of the working man, corduroy is that of the thinking man. Almost as comfortable as sweat pants and with the right shirt, it can be worn at even the chicest of parties.Miles Rohan is the founder of the Corduroy Appreciation Club, a members-only social club for people who feel just this way about the fabric."Emulating old, secret societies and social clubs, the Corduroy Appreciation Club seeks to create a community and, in turn, a sense of fellowship rooted in the historic and culturally significant fabric known as Corduroy. As a social club, the CAC has membership cards, traditions, by laws, strange rituals, a secret handshake and meetings."Meetings at Brooklyn's Montauk Club have been attended by cord-aficionados like Jonathan Ames and Lord Whimsy, while awards have honored "exemplary usage of corduroy" by the likes of Betsy Franjola (Manager of Fabrics at Karl Lagerfeld), Chris Lindland (Inventor of Cordarounds), and Vahram Mateosian (Tailor of the corduroy suits for The Royal Tenenbaums).Visit revelinnewyork.com for Miles' fashion picks and NYC recommendations.
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The Slits are probably the single most important all-girl punk ...
The Slits are probably the single most important all-girl punk band in the history of music. A bold statement, we know, but certainly not a controversial one. As a 14 year old, Ari Up served as the band's flamboyant front woman and helped develop The Slits' pioneering punky reggae sound. She grew up in England surrounded by punk royalty. Her mother, who is married to John Lydon of the Sex Pistols, ran a sort of punk house, where it wasn't uncommon to have people like The Clash and Jimi Hendrix roll through.After the demise of The Slits, Ari went on to form the New Age Steppers with Nenah Cherry and Mark Stewart of The Pop Group. She moved to Brooklyn in the eighties and later to Belize, where she lived naked in the jungles to escape the yuppie culture that the decade embraced. Recently, Ari recreated The Slits to pick up the band's unfinished mission to fight for musical expression, women, and cultural freedom. She splits her time between Flatbush, Brooklyn and Jamaica and can be visited at Ari Up.com.
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As the Senior Editor of High Times Magazine, David Bienenstock ...
As the Senior Editor of High Times Magazine, David Bienenstock has traveled the world writing about marijuana. He has interviewed everyone from growers to dealers to prisoners to politicians, which means he knows just about everything there is to know about pot.David is the author of The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook featuring 420 Things to Do When You're Stoned, the director of the best selling cultivation DVD, Jorge Cervantes' Ultimate Grow, and a frequent judge of The Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Anything else you want to know about him can probably be found on his website.
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The site-specific performances and installations directed by choreographer Noémie Lafrance ...
The site-specific performances and installations directed by choreographer Noémie Lafrance explore human movements in man-made landscapes, creating a performance language that interacts with the environment and the audience. Each creation uses an existing indoors/outdoors public site or piece of urban architecture as the setting and inspiration for the performance. The choreography constructs narratives through the movement of people in their real surroundings.The material is choreographed and rehearsed on site with the participation of large casts of performers and collaborating artists. The creation process pursues the intrinsic meaning of place for its historical, symbolic and energetic values and explores how places are marked by the "life" of people and objects and vice versa. The final product is imbued with the atmosphere of the space and reflects on the enhanced possibilities of live work performed outside of the black-box theater. Between stage and reality, the performance unfolds as an intimate and unpredictable voyage for traveling viewers.Sens Productions
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Dessert wizard Johnny Iuzzini, takes us backstage at New York's ...
Dessert wizard Johnny Iuzzini, takes us backstage at New York's celebrated Jean Georges restaurant to demonstrate what it takes to create some of the world’s most sought after sweets. Johnny Iuzzini is arguably one of the best pastry chefs in America. As head pastry chef for the celebrated Jean Georges restaurant, he's required to turn out some of the world's most sought after sweets on a daily basis. Iuzzini's career has taken him inside some of the best kitchens in world from the Laduree in Paris to the River Cafe in Brooklyn. Somewhere in between, he became the right hand man to Francois Payard at the famed Daniel. A former club kid, who often worked the door at the Palladium, Johnny is a self-proclaimed tattoo and motorcycle enthusiast, who's ocassionally been spotted moonlighting behind the bar at a few of the city's underground watering holes.Johnny's cookbook, Dessert FourPlay, is now available through Clarkson Potter.
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Growing up in a Christian household in Texas, Trenton Doyle ...
Growing up in a Christian household in Texas, Trenton Doyle Hancock was immersed in the myths and narratives that he found while reading The Bible. Couple these narratives with his love of comic books, toys and the Masters of the Universe series and one is able to see the pool of imagery and ideologies that helped shape Hancock's own mythical world."If you look at the grouping of the stories and belief systems that I learned from growing up, I wanted to take them apply them to my own art project based around a series of myths and symbols."Through his prints, drawings, painting, collages and even ballet, Hancock has created an ongoing narrative involving a group of mythical creatures that live and die in the Tolkienesque underworld that he created. Within his universe, there are Vegans - small ant-like creatures that live in the underworld and militantly hate meat. There are Mounds - hairy mountainous creatures that are rooted in the Earth. There's a handful of supporting character's like Torpedo Boy, Painter and Lloyd, who frequently appear to help drive the story of good guys vs. evil forward. And, like any epic saga, there are plots and subplots that involve murder, drama and changing ideologies that evolve with the artist's work."I feel it's important to have this narrative coupled with paintings because it's something I haven't really seen before in the fine art world. I mean painters throughout history used narratives, even the abstract expressionists did, but I wanted to take it to a different place. I want to tell explicit stories and have them be major components of the work in order to create a new hybrid conversation."Trenton was recently commissioned as one of the artists to do mural work in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. His work is part of the collection at many museums, including The Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney. He was part of the PBS Series Art 21 and is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York.
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From setting himself on fire to eating dirt, New York ...
From setting himself on fire to eating dirt, New York based photographer Fred Cray's self portraits demonstrate his curiosity to fully explore one's self. Here, Fred takes us on a tour of Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods to photograph the chaos around him.
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In the early eighties, Brad Hirschfield moved from the suburbs ...
In the early eighties, Brad Hirschfield moved from the suburbs of Chicago to the West Bank city of Hebron to join a fanatical Israeli sect determined to reclaim the Jewish state within it's Biblical boundaries.Nearly three decades later, Brad has backed away from Hebron and turned his back on the violence imposed by religious extremism in efforts to create a worldwide multi-faith conflict resolution initiative he refers to as "Bridge Building". Hirschfield is the author of "You Dont Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanatacism", the Co-Host of Hirschfiled & Kula: Intelligent Talk Radio and President of The National Jewish Center for Leadership and Learning.
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For nearly three decades, Al Sharpton has been perennially in ...
For nearly three decades, Al Sharpton has been perennially in New York City's public eye. He's a reverend, a civil rights activist, a radio show host, and a one time presidential candidate that's been arrested, jailed, and stabbed.Rev. Al supports gay rights and animal rights and was, at one time, James Brown's manager, a man he considers a surrogate father. Brownsville's own has risen to be among this city's long-standing, polarizing, elder statesmen that's both revered and despised, but seldom ignored.
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