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Image and photos by Joe "Kirsch" Curcio I’m convinced that one of the reasons New York is considered “the city that never sleeps” is alternate side-of-the-street parking. The truth is, at 8 a.m. in Greenpoint, you stand a better chance of scoring a jelly donut at Peter Pan before they sell out than you do of finding a legal parking [...]
I can’t imagine a time and place where it was considered in any way necessary or practical to put the face of a human, an animal, or some other creature, on the face of a building. These figures, generally called “Green Men” are now almost entirely relics of a vanished civilization. This face, and the dozens like it in my [...]
This excerpt from John O'Connor's new book, A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon (pub date April 14, 2026), explores the peripatetic ways of both the author and his subject, the late American mystic and "psychonaut," Terence Mckenna (1946-2000). McKenna, a countercultural figure in the 1970s who [...]
