Jay-Z courtside at the first Brooklyn Nets vs. Chicago Bulls playoff game, wearing a Nets Just Don cap, the Rich Kids Hooligans crew, and a Lanvin embroiderey chain brass necklace.
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In a Mexican prison run by the country’s most feared criminal syndicate, a Brooklyn-born priest struggles to save the most hardened souls.
Amidst the hoopla surrounding the…movie ‘42’ and Jackie Robinson’s heroic integration of major league baseball in April, 1947, the media has all but forgotten Larry Doby’s integration of the American League less than three months later. Unlike Robinson who spent a year with the Brooklyn Dodgers’ farm team, Doby moved directly from the Negro League Newark Eagles to the Cleveland Indians. In his first full season in 1948, Doby helped the Indians win the World Series, a feat that Robinson did not accomplish until 1955.
more.
The anger is real, and it’s been there for a long time…But how can we tell them not to be angry and to make better choices when we don’t have anything better to point them to?
![Brooklyn is “the center of cool for Swedes right now”…young Nordics’ [are obsessed] with anything Brooklyn-branded—cycling caps, beer, indie rock ‘n’ roll, you name it. In fact, the 25-year-old Brooklyn Brewery plans to open its first international outpost overlooking the Stockholm harbor this year. Paris, meanwhile, has kept up its capacity to inspire incredulity, this time by embracing anything that can be plausibly labeled “très Brooklyn,” particularly food trucks. There is a Brooklyn Diner in Dubai, a Brooklyn Restaurant in Malaysia, and Gorky Park in Moscow features a trendy snack kiosk with the word “Williamsburg” emblazoned across its top in the Latin, and not the Cyrillic, alphabet.
more. oh— and in Manhattan …
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art: from travel shots, here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1e39664a0c4985bcb37a4c794fb54c24/tumblr_mjxq85g9ci1qcwnv4o1_400.jpg)
Brooklyn is “the center of cool for Swedes right now”…young Nordics’ [are obsessed] with anything Brooklyn-branded—cycling caps, beer, indie rock ‘n’ roll, you name it. In fact, the 25-year-old Brooklyn Brewery plans to open its first international outpost overlooking the Stockholm harbor this year. Paris, meanwhile, has kept up its capacity to inspire incredulity, this time by embracing anything that can be plausibly labeled “très Brooklyn,” particularly food trucks. There is a Brooklyn Diner in Dubai, a Brooklyn Restaurant in Malaysia, and Gorky Park in Moscow features a trendy snack kiosk with the word “Williamsburg” emblazoned across its top in the Latin, and not the Cyrillic, alphabet.
more. oh— and in Manhattan …
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art: from travel shots, here.
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art: photo by John Minchillo
more, on the recent shooting/killing of Kimani Gray, 16, by NYPD, in Brooklyn, New York.
…I said, ‘Look, I’m going to be wearing this and…this year, I want to be black’…The goal was not to be recognizable.
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art: by Jef Aerosol
Tyra for Yves Saint Laurent, s/s 1995
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Jay-Z courtside at the first Brooklyn Nets vs. Chicago Bulls playoff game, wearing a Nets Just Don cap, the Rich Kids Hooligans crew, and a Lanvin embroiderey chain brass necklace.
[meaningful glance]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/f68ac95a02be1d8387cc81edcad9c0f5/tumblr_mll1hcb6c71rrvheyo1_500.png)
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Everybody Wants a Piece of Kimani Gray. How a boy’s death became street theater in Flatbush.
[look of the hour]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1e1e5c8fb5a55bc974abb6b20c888865/tumblr_mjyuq02JSq1qb6rl5o1_500.jpg)
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