Scenes From The Final Days Of Peep World
Good reporting highlights the salient details:
Posted: March 27th, 2012 | Filed under: There Goes The NeighborhoodAll Peep World DVDs were being sold for $5, except bestiality DVDs — those were $10.
Commissioner Clinton Kelly Will School You On What Not To Wear
Muted colors please, and something that doesn’t hide that cute butt of yours:
Posted: March 26th, 2012 | Filed under: Law & OrderMen of color said cops don’t bother them as long as they are dressed in a suit or in work clothes.
“It matters what you wear, just don’t look like a hoodlum,” said [. . .] a 23-year-old black man, explaining that a cop stopped him on S. Ninth St. after a nearby shooting asking what he knew about it.
[The man], then a Pathmark cashier in full uniform, said a second officer let him go.
“He said, ‘Leave him alone. He’s going to work,'” Kinard said. “Maybe if we dress nicer, they will leave us alone.”
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“I had a bright pink shirt on that day,” [another man who had been frisked] said. “I was an easy target.”
New Orleans In April (Read: Jazz Fest!!!!!)
Posted: March 23rd, 2012 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Law & OrderIn April 2008, an undercover NYPD officer traveled to New Orleans to attend the People’s Summit, a gathering of liberal groups organized around their shared opposition to U.S. economic policy and the effect of trade agreements between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
When the undercover effort was summarized for supervisors, it identified groups opposed to U.S. immigration policy, labor laws and racial profiling. Two activists — Jordan Flaherty, a journalist, and Marisa Franco, a labor organizer for housekeepers and nannies — were mentioned by name in one of the police intelligence reports obtained by the AP.
“One workshop was led by Jordan Flaherty, former member of the International Solidarity Movement Chapter in New York City,” officers wrote in an April 25, 2008, memo to David Cohen, the NYPD’s top intelligence officer. “Mr. Flaherty is an editor and journalist of the Left Turn Magazine and was one of the main organizers of the conference. Mr. Flaherty held a discussion calling for the increase of the divestment campaign of Israel and mentioned two events related to Palestine.”
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Flaherty, who also writes for The Huffington Post, said he was not an organizer of the summit, as police wrote in the NYPD report. He said the event described by police actually was a film festival in New Orleans that same week, suggesting that the undercover officer’s duties were more widespread than described in the report.
Flaherty said he recalls introducing a film about Palestinians but spoke only briefly and does not understand why that landed him a reference in police files.
“The only threat was the threat of ideas,” he said. “I think this idea of secret police following you around is terrifying. It really has an effect of spreading fear and squashing dissent.”
The Carp, Dripping Wet, Gingerly Steps Out Of The Bathtub And Makes His Way Across The Hall To The Steamroom, Followed By A Relaxing Turn In The Jacuzzi Whirlpool Bath
Artisanal Brooklyn strikes again! You’ve read about the burgeoning “condimovement” there and $40 mayonnaise. Now here’s $20 gefilte fish:
Posted: March 22nd, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Things That Make You Go "Oy"Three foodies are peddling a gourmet and gluten-free recipe for gefilte that they say blows the traditional Passover fish dish most Jews love to hate right out of the water.
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The company’s 24-ounce gefilte loaf sells for $20. A 12-ounce loaf is just $12.
My Open Bar Mitzvah
Brooklyn Daily reveals the scourge of “shul-hopping”:
Posted: March 22nd, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Need To KnowTeenagers all over the country experiment with alcohol, but kids in Orthodox Midwood are doing it at their local synagogue.
It’s known as “shul-hopping”: boys in their early teens spend their Friday nights going from temple to temple attending Shalom Zocher parties — where men come together to celebrate a newborn boy’s birth — and get drunk on free booze.
But these teens aren’t just sipping wine: some of them have gotten so drunk at these parties that they’ve been rushed to the hospital — prompting a handful of Midwood synagogues to change their party policies when teenagers are involved.
