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Immanuel Wilkins is upholding NYC's jazz history. He's also dreaming up its future. (opens the original)
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The first thing Immanuel Wilkins did upon moving to Brooklyn about five years ago was make nice with his new neighbors. An accomplished alto saxophonist and composer, he gifted each of the residents in his building one of his jazz records and asked for their blessing to practice the instrument in his studio apartment. “I’ve been pushing my luck, playing pretty late at night,” Wilkins recently said. “But I’m pretty courteous. I’ve never gotten a knock, nothing. Fingers crossed.” His neighbors mig
Ever wish you could get paid to walk through a stranger’s house? ‘The Scout’ is for you. (opens the original)
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Paula González-Nasser is used to dealing with strangers’ quirks. As a longtime location scout, she has spent years knocking on the doors of homes she hopes might be used as sets for the films or TV productions she’s working on. She never knows who’s going to answer. They might let her look around and take some photos for the creative team, or they could tell her to get lost. She is usually prepared to be surprised by what she encounters once she’s inside a stranger’s apartment. But there’s an in
Talking concrete and confidence with John Wilson, documentarian of oddball NYC (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, about 350 people gathered in the Rockaways to watch a movie about concrete. They sat on the beach in folding chairs with their feet in the sand, facing a screen supported by large concrete blocks. The makeshift theater, called the Arverne Cinema, is located on a plot of land next to a defunct concrete plant. Concrete abounds. “The History of Concrete” served the ninth annual Rockaway Film Festival's headliner. It is documentarian John Wilson's first feature-length film, which
What does NY Fashion Week mean to Pratt students just entering the industry? (opens the original)
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When Tabari Davis was 5, he watched an episode of “Project Runway” with his grandmother. As soon as it ended, he ran to the kitchen and grabbed a pair of scissors, sturdy tape and a trash bag. He then reached for their water jug and, using it as a makeshift dress form, fashioned a garment out of the plastic bag. It was his first original design. “Fashion for me,” Davis said, “has always been something exploratory.” After two decades and plenty of experimentation, Davis is attending his first New
Standing on the Corner's music honors the ghosts of New York City (opens the original)
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To Gio Escobar, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum is “the most spiritual place in New York.” “This beautiful spectacle of a structure is a mass grave,” he said on an August afternoon as we walked around the reflecting pools constructed where the Twin Towers once stood. “Any point of contact with the afterlife and the spirits is something I’m interested in.” Escobar leads Standing on the Corner, an experimental music collective that defies categorization. For the past decade, he and a rotating group of
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