Even Gang Members Love Starbucks

Friday morning was pretty eventful since I learned that even gang members like Starbucks. In the East Village and Alphabet City, even in a post-Rudy Giuliani New York, one expects their fair share of shady folks, grifters and junkies. But in Gramercy Park, one expects a bit of suburbia in the city. So imagine this, [...]

From Street To Prison To Studio

“The union of hip-hop to the mainstream is a hard one to imagine,” says the character Sydney Shaw in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar. The movie follows two characters that witnessed the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx as children and grow up to work in the industry, the male a record producer, and [...]