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On a sunny day in 1975, I went to Travis, Staten Island to photograph its annual Fourth of July Parade. The parade ended in a large schoolyard directly across the street from the home of my friend and fellow photographer John Rossi. As I review my 1975 Parade photographs, I see a more peaceful time in a NYC borough that [...]
This week we are publishing Part II of “Titan,” an excerpt from Baye McNeils’ new memoir, You Couldn’t Tell Me Shit! Coming of Age in the County of Kings, 1980-1985 about growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Baye’s book, a serialized memoir, is available on his Substack. Part I was published on this site June 7th. CINCERE On the way [...]
"Perhaps @Icegov should go check this corner out." That’s how social media influencer and Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez captioned her October 19, 2025, video on X showing West African vendors selling counterfeit goods on Canal Street. The video has been viewed 5.1 million times. Several days after it went online, ICE agents raided the area and arrested nine [...]
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 [...]
