November 2009
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Meditative Beauty: Bivas Chaudhari on Art →
Originally posted on SheepsheadBites.com on 11/19/2009.
Born in Calcutta, India, Bivas Chaudhari is an award-winning international artist whose journey to Southern Brooklyn’s waters resonates in his art.
Chaudhari received his MFA in Painting and Print Making from Brooklyn College, studied at SVA, The Scottish Church College, The Government College of Art and Craft and the University of...
October 2009
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Papa John's Moves To The Bay, But Can It Succeed? →
Papa John’s, a Kentucky based pizza chain in business since 1984, boasts that it has “Better Ingredients, Better Pizza.” We’re not sure if founder John Schnatter is aware, but the center of the pizza industry is New York City– and as New Yorkers, we are notoriously skeptical about a good slice.
Sheepshead Bay has its fair share of places to grab a decent slice but by no means are people...
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Sheepshead Bay Gets Its Close-up, Avant Garde... →
samantigen:
by Samantha LoSapio; originally posted on www.sheepsheadbites.com on 10/26/09
If you thought traffic was bad at the Sheepshead Bay Road bus stop, teeming with Kingsborough students late for their 9 a.m. class and exasperated espresso fiends tweeting about their frustration, wait until you have to push your way off the back of a gondola.
Oh, you heard right; we said gondola.
New...
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even the...
even the lines for christmas rushes after thanksgiving even the span of time it takes to react even the fights that erupt while we’re shopping even the distance from which we’re held back
even the crescendos of great waves of noise even the horns on all our new cars even the headphones— they’re coming out lower even the spacewalks, muted screams, trips to mars
even the...
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mathematics
of course, life would be like math. i hate it, i need it and i usually just don’t fucking get it. once in a while, someone will teach me something valuable about it and i will remember it forever. i can’t solve the equation if i don’t understand the problem. if i try to hard to make it look right, it just looks like i’m cheating if i don’t try enough, the teacher...
September 2009
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O'er Plains on Foot
the colors around the moon right now make it more beautiful than it is a giant piece of earth removed, in sky, just absent from the room green and red and dusty, it’s hard to see it through the window frame as long as it stays in its place we’ll never know our doom for once it sets upon our shoulders then we’ll see our tombs
i hate unofficial plans, because it thrusts you into...
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Bringing "The Office" home with you
From ReviewFix.com:
Taking a nod from NBC’s success with mockumentaries, ABC’s newest show brings single-camera comedy to a whole new level: the home front. “Modern Family,” whose cast boasts silver screen vets Ed O’Neill (Married With Children) and Julie Bowen (Boston Legal), is a charming take on American dysfunction that is destined to keep us laughing.
In the series pilot, we get a glimpse...
Stand by Me, Ben E. King
I enjoy citrus humor.
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The list of confirmed interviews grows, though on the whole there are a significant amount of people who have expressed interest in collaborating with Modest Fare. The first round of interviews will take place on September 18th through 20th. This isn’t the Shamrock Shake, it’s not a limited time only so feel free to request later dates.
soon!
Brooklyn musicians and comedians, Anthony Kapfer and Ricky Wells
Dominic Cloutier, Inbred Hybrid Collective
Brooklyn artist, Luz “ChangoBi” Sanjurjo
Brooklyn sculptor, Ryan McCullough
NY/LA Artist Diana Hobson
Brooklyn artist Katie Cercone
NY jewelry designer and collage artist Rachel Bertoni-Finstad
Brooklyn blues jam band Big Pull will be working with us one way or another,...