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allan-dorr's picture
Aug.06.2010
    It's afternoon. I'm walking across the fields below hippie hill. Kids with tattoos and dogs ask me if I want some nuggets. One kid, his goatee, Ray Bans and 49ers cap anonymizing him rides by me on a BMX, smelling heavily of weed.    The fields are full of people of all ages, playing hooky from...
heywood-gould's picture
Sep.13.2008
RED HOOK, Brooklyn, September 12...Until last week Barb Blasingame thought Shylock was just a character in  a Shakespeare play. But then her bank turned her down for a home equity loan.  Now Barb knows that Shylock is alive and well and going by the name of Fat Funzi   of Sackett Street and she...