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Making Waves With Real Estate at Terminal 5

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 4, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

Since their 2009 conception, Real Estate has been the band to follow. Their eponymous first album stirred the Internet waves, getting phenomenal write-ups from blogs, websites and magazines alike. Pitchfork hailed it as the nostalgia album of twenty-somethings lost in the world, citing that the songs “soundtracked a time when it feels like every kid in or
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Rich Aucoin: Music Man of the Future

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 4, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

Rich Aucoin is not your average musician. He’s not really your average human, for that matter, since it seems he isn’t very average in any way at all. He pumped out a self-produced acoustic EP, Personal Publication, on which he played all the instruments. The EP caught the attention of music lovers in his homeland Canada. He
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Speed Shrinking For A New Year

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

It’s a week into 2012 and time to stop saying “Happy New Year” to all the woebegotten strangers you encounter outside your local bar. It’s time to come to terms with the fact that you’ve broken your 12 resolutions 20 times over in the last seven days. Time to get the real start. The post-New
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Trippple Nippples Pump It Up

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

Shea Stadium is a shitty DIY venue in Bushwick. It’s full of shitty lights, shitty drinks, shitty people and, for the most part, shitty bands. You might wonder why I decided to make my way to this “shit” storm. In fact, it was to check out Japanese Screamo band, Trippple Nippples. Before the main event,
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New Years Eve-Mas: Sell Your Coal

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Lifestyle, Style, Uncategorized

Well you’ve made it. Congratulations. Another 12 months have come and gone. You’re almost at the white taped ending of the year. Christmas has passed in all its darkness. If you need to recoup the funds you wasted on drinks and strippers this holiday season, it’s time to start selling some of the Christmas duds
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Stagg Films: A Sit-Down With Nouveau Photographer Ellen Stagg

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film

Ellen Stagg is a tall, blonde woman with the laid back personality of a West Coast surf nymph. Her brown eyes are soft, but direct. They travel to the back of her head when she looks for the right way to articulate a certain sentiment.“Everyone I’ve met in the porn industry doesn’t think my work
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Creeps, Creepers and Creep: When Doppelgangers Make Music

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard are beautiful. Not foo-foo beautiful. Not crimp your hair and call me dolly beautiful. No, they’re part of the new generation. Erudite females, well-versed in pop culture and black leather. Do’s that DON’T go styled. The type of girls that are best friends with gay guys and call them fags, and
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Ambassadors: A Brooklyn Band with a Worldly Sound

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

Guitarist Noah Feldshuh and brothers Casey and Sam Harris have been playing music together since elementary school in Ithaca, New York. However, it wasn’t until they met drummer, Adam Levin in 2006 that Ambassadors were formed. Though only the lead singer and pianist are biological brothers, there is a distinct quality of kinship when Sam
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Matt Shadetek of Dutty Artz: Get Laid. Get Paid. Then Sleep.

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

The lights are low, with spotlights glowing left and right while sweaty young things writhe furiously. “This feels like a total rave,” one says. She’s wearing a cut off shirt, and her forehead is sweating. Pretty, with soft cheeks and black eyeliner. Don’t want to know how young she is. The bar is serving Sapporo for $9
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Sherlock Holmes: Don't Play Chess…Ever!

Written by Noah Wunsch on February 3, 2012. Posted in Film

Thanksgiving has come and gone, andHollywood has gotten most of its Oscar contenders out of it’s system. We’ve already gotten another Twilight, and Harry Potter got married and had kids, so what kind of a superfluous blockbuster sequel can we jam in before fall ends? Hey, didn’t that Sherlock Holmes flick make a bunch of
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