I felt like a character out of a Dickens novel, slinking past the DuMont on Union, on my long walk back to Greenpoint with five dollars I could either spend on the subway, or an egg and cheese sandwich from the deli. Inside DuMont there were people eating, drinking, and laughing; I was on the outside, down to my last few bucks, waiting for the biggest freelance check I had ever received, the one that signaled it was finally safe […]
Cheap American Beer: A Love Story
Sometimes I try and see if I can come up with a better term than “cheap” to describe the 36 beers that Will Gordon wrote up in his Deadspin piece, “36 Cheap American Beers, Ranked,” but I can’t. Even though a few of the beers on the list were at one time or another the biggest beers in America, long before the craft beer revolution and expensive growler-filling stations at Whole Foods became trendy, Schlitz, Pabst, and Budweiser have been […]
Bad Brains Have a Hot Sauce
Via Brandon Stosuy comes the news that Bad Brains now sell an official hot sauce. “Punky Reggae party in every bottle,” the label says. Which, I suppose, you could put on your breakfast while drinking Will Oldham’s coffee blend to chase off a hangover from chugging Craig Finn’s beer the night before. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Jami Attenberg and Jeffrey Yoskowitz Made Some Pickles
Jami Attenberg is the author of The Middlesteins — which is not only a compelling novel, but also a work that contains some of the most loving fictional descriptions of food in recent memory.