Dorcas Meyers was a vendor at our first block party in 2017. She has a wonderful beauty product company called “Roc-A-Natural“. We stayed in touch, and were recently talking, and she was telling me how she was trying to put together a free movie night in her community of Stapleton. Her hope was to motivate…
Every photo of me from the latter half of my high school years features short, moussed-up hair, big earrings, some retro skirt or clamdiggers, and an off-the-shoulder sweatshirt. Hail, Belinda, I wanted to be in the Go-Go’s. Wanna feel old? Beauty and the Beat, the pop album put out by I.R.S. (which smashed the vinyl…
You’ve heard time and again: music soothes the savage beast. I’ve said it many times myself. Guess what? That’s not exactly how it goes. The original phrase is “Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak…”. It’s from a poem written in 1697 by William Congreve. (Never…
Kitty here! I have been poking my nose in other DJ’s businesses around the hub this week- let’s dish. Vinyl acquisitions: what recently purchased records are you enjoying right now? Tom Ferrie (Nowhere Fast): Peaky Blinders OGS (3xLP) Kitty (The She Pop Show): Xenia Rubinos and Yolo Elizabeth Bennett (Staten Island Arts): the original Sesame…
It was a small, second-story room facing out onto the street that I grew up on. There were two windows, side-by-side, but the view seemed to be of absolutely no interest to its occupant. The blinds were always down, and sometime in the summer of 1974, just as I was about to become a teenager,…