Buy Or Don’t Buy

Consider the timeline of The Wedding Present, morphing into Cinerama, morphing back to The Wedding Present. From the initial George Best album in ’87, to Cinerama’s late 90’s prolific discog, including Torino, to TWP’s return with Take Fountain and the Search for Paradise comp, the group has always rocked—hard. Though Gedge has a penchant for [...]

This is going to sound really morbid, but, hey! Brooklyn’s hipster capital is finally regaining some of its lost street cred.
Just when you thought the entire nabe had been sold to the whims of developers, and the toughest choice residents had to make was deciding between a 6th floor 2 bedroom with a parking space, [...]

Because it’s Monday, and I’m tired, let’s talk about coffee. Here’s a brief history of coffee, as I know it.
Coffee was the thing to drink as a beatnik. The hotter and the blacker the better. But times changed and little coffee shops were put to the test when Starbucks opened their doors nationwide. Starbucks made it [...]

Who said face-to-facing people you meet online is a bad idea? Meetup’s mission is to draw like-minded people out from under the dark cover of cyberspace and into real-time friends and colleagues. So people create profiles, search for groups they are interested in, and make dates to meet at the steps near the B. Dalton [...]

I can’t wait for shit to hit the fan with this one
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two ridiculously named banks that got wrapped up in the whole subprime mortgage lending crisis. For the past 5 years, banks have been lessening their standards and providing finance for people who wouldn’t have normally qualified for [...]

We all know what comes out next week. It’s dunna nanna nanana nanana BATMAN! And the reason why we all know of this comic/action movie as opposed to the (at least) 4 others that came (or are coming out) this summer is because 1. Batman rocks, 2. I was told that this Batman movie is [...]

Your guide to Buy or Don’t Buy.
You know when you really like something, agree with something, or understand something? You can call it “digging”, “getting behind”, or “McLovin’”, I call it “buying” when I completely support a person, place, concept, thought, movie, song, or really anything.

Yes, I am aware that the term “buy” has plenty [...]