New york — I covered a poetry reading last night at Silvana, a Middle Eastern bar in Harlem. Rachida Madani, a Moroccan poet, was making the first stop on her American book tour for her collection Tales of a Sev...
New york — Picture-taking was technically prohibited— I couldn’t help myself. The point of “Funky Turns 40” was to celebrate all the realistic, positive black characters that revolutionized Saturday morning ca...
New york — Red Rocket Tattoo is on the third floor of a walkup building on West 37th, right in the armpit of New York. The stairwell walls are covered in framed tattoo templates: skulls, geishas, stereos, storm ...
Skulking around at a tattoo parlor.
Saw a feminist Moroccan poet give a reading in Harlem.
Unwinding with coffee after an interview. Someone asked if my video camera case was a dog carrier.
A box of pasta abandoned in the cookbook section of Eataly.
Visiting "Funky Turns 40" exhibit, from the Museum of UnCut Funk.