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Hipster Off-Loading

Written by Jeff Koyen on July 16, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

This whole thing started as something of an experiment: How much of my shit could I get rid of before I started to freak out? How many objects do I hold to be so precious that I simply could not, not ever, not never, live without them? As it turns out, not too many. Much
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Smog in Prague

Written by Jeff Koyen on July 9, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Prague – Indie rockers are the same the world over. Here at Prague’s Barácnická rychta, nerdy Czech guys lean against the wall, and there are more than a couple pair of thick black glasses. Ratty band t-shirts on expats, thrift-store shirts abound. It’s a nice crowd, about half Czech and half import, very relaxed, very
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There Are Good Queens Bands

Written by Jeff Koyen on May 21, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

When a friend told me that there were some good bands coming out of Queens, I was a bit skeptical. For as much as she’d deride me for my Jersey heritage–Bon Jovi, Bruce, et fucking al.–what could Queens offer? I imagined a stage full of hotpants and haircuts and goofy guitars shaped like half of
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Auster’s Missing Ego

Written by Jeff Koyen on March 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Writer Auster’s Missing Ego While arguably more well-known per capita in France than America, Auster is by no means an author whose popularity has become significant in the last five years. Paul Auster, really, has been around forever. The first installment in the New York Trilogy was published 17 years ago, and he’d already been
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Pilgrim’s Progress: Four Days with the Monks of Mt. Athos

Written by Jeff Koyen on October 30, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

I am the Jew in the Vatican. The black man at the Klan rally. The capitalist in Red Square. I am a Roman Catholic living for four days with the monks of Mt. Athos, and the monks of Mt. Athos don’t particularly like Roman Catholics. I am in the holiest of Holy Lands for the
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Searching for Eden Among the Tourists on the Greek Island of Zakynthos

Written by Jeff Koyen on August 21, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The last time I looked at the odometer, I was 5 kilometers away from what could be called "civilization" only as a punchline. Three miles could actually kill me right now. Walking the distance isn’t the problem, but rather the unforgiving, unrelenting heat. At 2 p.m., the sun in Greece is a bitch and a
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Adding It Up

Written by Jeff Koyen on July 31, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop had a house in Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ, and it was perfect. Everything a summer house and a grandparents’ house should be. One block from the ocean, one block from a fishing lake, on a lively street with a beautiful grass median. Most importantly, it was tricked out grandparent-style: at the drop
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Eddie Breen, the Paint Machine: “Outsider Art” or Not, His Work Sure Sells

Written by Jeff Koyen on February 13, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

“If you’re a regular artist, you’ve gone through art school and all that, I think it’s kind of anathema to paint on somebody else’s hard-painted painting. But I don’t have any such inhibitions, not knowing my ass from my elbow. I can just do it.” Eddie Breen speaks from experience. In the last two years,
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New Year’s Eve in Atlantic City

Written by Jeff Koyen on January 23, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Only Sure Thing The Trump Plaza sign, 10 red letters 20 feet tall, burns from another tower outside our room. Down to the left, north along the boardwalk, rise Caesar’s and, behind and above, Bally’s. The beach is white with snow, the streets are empty. Even the waves seemed chilled to inaction; they roll
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Brooklyn Evictions Put Hipsters in the Snow

Written by Jeff Koyen on January 2, 2001. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Nonetheless, quite a few people are crying foul over last week’s Fire Dept. evictions and threats to evict. As reported in the Dec. 19 Daily News, the FDNY has compiled a list of some 100 places targeted as commercially zoned buildings outfitted with dangerous (but "trendy") lofts in some of New York City’s desirable B&T
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