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Dreamland Roller Rink πŸ¦„

Dreamland Roller Rink is a pop-up roller skating rink in Brooklyn that hosts some pretty amazing themed nights. But my silly heart skipped a beat when I saw that there would be a 90’s Grunge vs. 80’s Hair Metal Night… when my fellow hair metal kid/90’s young adult side kick Read more…


Visiting Brooklyn

My home in Brooklyn feels like it’s in another state. With my best gal back in Brooklyn for the holidays, I visited its other parts, stamping my Brooklyn passport with its best… views of Manhattan. Grey day on the East River River cruising for $2.25. Waterfront walking Ferry ridin’ fools Read more…


Terms of Endearment, Brooklyn

A reoccurring topic of conversation at family get-togethers is the state of film today. How the young have swiftly diminishing means of experiencing depth and quality, the depth and quality that marked our upbringing, the endless pool of movie references we speak like a language. I bring this up because Read more…


A.T.M. Vegan Deli

Though vegan food is popping up everywhere, I am most excited about high quality (emphasis added) vegan food popping up. Please don’t cite recent additions of fast food restaurants offering vegan options as progress. A.T.M. Vegan Deli, a counter at the event space Kinfolk 90 in Williamsburg, is all-vegan and Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 10:
Renegades of Sunset vs. Gradient BK

I am pleased to present to you Battle 10! And to its victor–an enthusiastic welcome to the Championship Round, the last Battle of The Vegan Victuals Fried Chicken Showdown. It has been a spectacular run. Reviewing the brackets, I am confident that the final battle has two of the bests Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 9:
Superiority Burger vs. Chickpea & Olive

Here it is! The battle that decides which tofu-based vegan fried chicken would move into the Finals. The Finals!! I’ve said a lot about both Superiority Burger and Chickpea & Olive in previous posts, so I’m going to jump right in and let them go at it. Superiority Burger, East Read more…


The Brooklyn Firefly
Vegan Pizza in Bay Ridge

…with housemade vegan cheese?! Yup, The Brooklyn Firefly has a vegan section on their menu with five delicious pizza selections. Add GrubHub for easy ordering and delivery and this is a straight-up dangerous discovery. I got the Shore Road. To represent as a Ridger. It had tomato sauce, their house-made Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 8:
Gradient vs. Orchard Grocer

With this Battle 8, the semi-finals are officially set! Are you as excited as I am? I feel really great about the state of these brackets, but I don’t look forward having to ultimately eliminate 3 of the 4 semi-finalist fried chicken sandwiches. But let me slow my roll. Battle Read more…


More Angel Hunting in the 5 Boroughs (Brooklyn) Angel Olsen

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I’m getting a jump on my angel hunting, beginning with Angel Olsen at Brooklyn Steel last night, opening up a broader interpretation of this I’ve decided annual series. It is hard to resist. I am extremely choosy with who I see live these days. If you would tell the teenager Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 6 ½:
Hartbreakers vs. Gradient BK

With an ever-growing field of vegan fried chicken at my fingertips, I made an addition to my brackets. I had to. After hearing the vegan fried chicken sandwich at Bushwick’s new all-vegan bar and event space Gradient was house made, I told my friend to meet me there… because unless Read more…


In Brooklyn

Hand in hand with widespread gentrification of the borough, Brooklyn has been losing its grit for many decades now. The once much more expansive decay of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is now undergoing a billion dollar make-over. But there is still some overgrowth and neglect to capture before shiny new Read more…


Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.
(photo purge)

Airport knees. Because I still sit like a 10 year old. The tail end. Good for them! I like my tables etched with love. She’s clockin’ my Banh Me Salad at Black Mountain Wine House. Or the wine. I love my “new” hutch. Having to get it in two trips Read more…


A Vegan in Brooklyn’s Wegmans

Wegmans arrived in Brooklyn with a lot of hullabaloo–lots of press and devotee sound bites. So I knew my visit would be first thing in the morning. I wanted to put the vegan perspective of this grand and anticipated opening of the beloved Wegmans out there to the world. So Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 6:
Chickpea & Olive vs. Petisco Vegano

Moving swiftly towards a vegan fried chicken crown, I give you Battle 6! The formidable Chickpea and Olive faces off versus new jack Petisco Vegano, a new lower east side all-vegan spot who, like Honeybee’s, were placed in Round 2 without a previous win, yes (like Hartbreakers), but also without Read more…


Portrait Day at Green-Wood Cemetery

After some errands I decided the light was too perfect to resist going to Green-Wood Cemetery. This being only the second time photographing the cemetery using manual settings, I gave myself the assignment of taking lady portraits. Close up and intimate on their grief. The cemetery was far too busy Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 5:
Modern Love vs. Renegades of Sunset

Since I began this competition, vegan fried chicken is definitely having its moment. With the β€œfirst” vegan chicken shop now open in Los Angeles (says VegNews, to which I say: Hartbreakers), vegan chicken debuting at Kentucky Fried Chicken, and vegan fried chicken on Shark Tank, seems it’s the new β€œit” Read more…


Yet Another Stephen Espo Powers Post

Kinda love this guy, like all fanboy-like. But more so, I suppose, I like what he creates. So I finally got my butt out to his space in Downtown Brooklyn during one of his free screen print events! And the design is my most favorite of his sentiments. First, outside. Read more…


Sweet Adelina’s
Italian in Greenpoint

With a friend in from Los Angeles who had a show to catch at the Warsaw, it’d be dinner in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Adelina’s, I thought! I suppose if I have a favorite Italian restaurant, it’d be Adelina’s. Everything I’ve ever had here is absolutely dreamy. With these thoughtful and delicious Read more…


Vegan Fried Chicken Outtakes 🍿

As I move into Round 2 of the Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown, I need to purge some chicken-y visits… and make the, I swear, final adjustment to the official brackets. Before creating my brackets, I did some preliminary research. Then, I hastily made half battle visits… visits I can no Read more…


The V.V. Vegan Fried Chicken Showdown 🍿, Battle 4:
Urban Vegan Kitchen vs. Renegades of Sunset *Revision*

Urban Vegan Kitchen, West VillageChick-un & Waffles I remember the first time I went to Urban Vegan Kitchen very crisply though it was in January 2017. I fled opportunistically from a teacher professional development class at the The Met because it was a disorganized shit show. It felt good to Read more…


πŸ‘οΈ Out To See

The Warby Parker store opening in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has Stephen Powers all over it. ❀️ Bask within it while I am overwhelmed by September as I usually am. To Fall… and to Getting Up.


Cemetery Season is Coming!

Back to School means Back to Green-Wood Cemetery. But this season, my 200 mm telephoto lens. Now my zoom can reach the pained expressions close to the heavens—a world of difference from my previous shoots in auto focus. What a fool I was! Camera confident now, I was bummed to Read more…


Real Veg Dim Sum in Brooklyn! πŸ₯Ÿ πŸ₯’

I have friends of all ages. But I find it amusing that an older friend pressured me to download and often utilizes her personal emoji, Bitmoji, in her text messages. Like a lot. So I made one mostly for her amusement. But now I’m hooked on utilizing it when appropriate. Read more…


G.O.A.T. Vegan Sandwich at Renegades of Sunset

Renegades of Sunset have a new Wednesday special that is off the charts. The last time I ate this sandwich I called it The Best Vegan Fried Chicken Sandwich. Now I am going to call it the Best Vegan Sandwich, in general. You just think on that while you look Read more…


Just a Slither Left

The end of summer is a heartbreaker for teachers. So I squeezed in some commiseration with a couple of my favorite teachers in Brooklyn and Staten Island. We ate, drank and mourned the end of our total freedom. Williamsburg’s Modern Love has these mozzarella sticks that are mind blowing, just Read more…


Vegan Wonders of Brooklyn:
Bad Gyal Vegan & Baba Cool

Just look! This vegan fried chicken from Bad Gyal Vegan in Bed-Sty is mind-blowing. The breading is everything as some say. Though this visit was an locationally opportunistic one in advance of their battle in the fried chicken showdown, I just needed to share it now. I mean! Have you Read more…