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Publisher |: Brooklyn Magazine

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Brooklyn,; Interview,; Society & Culture

Categories Via RSS |: Personal Journals,; Places & Travel,; Society & Culture

Every week, Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast highlights prominent (and soon-to-be-prominent) Brooklynites as we explore the vast and diverse borough through the lens of culture, community and commerce. Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Brian Braiker, the show features intimate conversations with cultural luminaries, community leaders and compelling locals. These are the people who move us, entertain us, feed us and inspire us. There are a lot of little Brooklyns, and we are all a little Brooklyn.

People |: Brian Braiker (@slarkpope)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: Brooklyn, NY
Premiere Date |: 2020-11-23
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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112 Available Episodes (112 Total) / Average duration: 00:39:06

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112 Available Episodes (112 Total)Average duration: 00:39:06

Apr 24, 2023

00:43:16

Hudson, a third-generation Brooklynite from Prospect Heights who represents her own neighborhood plus Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights and part of Bed-Stuy, is one of first openly gay Black women on the city council. She joins us to speak about her first year in office, her accomplishments, goals and challenges. We discuss her vision for a revamped Atlantic Avenue corridor, her role in the council’s streamlined progressive caucus, her views on Mayor Eric Adams, the displacement of legacy Black residents from her district and more. Plus, because we keep our elected representatives accountable, there is a pop quiz.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

Email: hello@bkmag.com

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Twitter: @brooklynmag

Instagram: @brooklynmagazine

Follow Brian Braiker on Twitter: @slarkpope

Apr 17, 2023

00:51:46

Hari Kondabolu is a very funny stand-up comic, an astute observer on race and racial politics, a writer and filmmaker, a Brooklynite and, most recently a dad. His latest special is out this week on YouTube. Filmed right here in Gowanus at the Bell House, “Vacation Baby” is some of his more personal work to date. In it, he discusses the surreal nature of having a baby in the middle of a global pandemic. Filmed days after Roe v Wade was overturned, though, he leaves nothing on the table in terms of his biting political wit.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

Email: hello@bkmag.com

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Twitter: @brooklynmag

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Apr 10, 2023

00:44:57

There is a lot going on in Prospect Park these days. The Vale of Cashmere is undergoing a massive, multimillion dollar redesign process. The two-mile section of the park’s loop known as East Drive is getting fresh asphalt and undergoing a trial redesign meant to make life easier — and safer — for both cyclists and pedestrians. The historic Lefferts House is getting a makeover that will pay proper homage to the native Lenape people who lived on the land before it was colonized, and the enslaved Africans who later worked there. The park is getting a Shirley Chisholm memorial, too. Monaco, the first Black administrator of Prospect Park, joins us to discuss all of that and more, including the infamous attack that killed a dog in the park last August.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

Email: hello@bkmag.com

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Apr 03, 2023

00:28:54

This week's guest is Mistress Marley, who is a financial dominatrix, which is exactly what it sounds like. Her clients, almost all white men, are financial submissives — "finsubs" in the industry lingo. Their kink? They get off on sending her money simply because she demands it of them. No sex or nudity involved. You might not understand it, but the human heart is boundless and unknowable. Mistress Marley has a master’s degree in fashion marketing, a dungeon in East New York and a paddle with the word "reparations" carved into it. Let's go!

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

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Mar 27, 2023

00:41:23

If you are a driver of a certain delinquent orientation, you might not think every law pertains to you. You might, for example, tamper with your license plate in order to avoid detection by toll, speed and red-light cameras. Maybe you scratch off a few letters. Maybe you obscure the plate entirely. If you do, you’re kind of a jerk. And Gersh Kuntzman is coming for you. Today we talk with the career journalist about his recent viral efforts to name and shame license plate scofflaws, his work at Streetsblog NYC, biking in the city and more.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

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Mar 20, 2023

00:59:47

Since 2016 Johnny Cirillo has stationed himself on street corners in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where he’s lived for over 20 years, and snapped thousands of photos of fabulously attired New Yorkers. It started as an homage to the late, great Bill Cunningham, the New York Times street style photographer, but the passion project has eventually morphed into his own thing. On Instagram, where he has nearly one million followers as @watchingnewyork, and more recently on TikTok, Cirillo posts candid shots of and interviews with stylish Brooklynites. It is a wonderful slice of life of the borough in all its swag and panache.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

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Mar 13, 2023

00:25:57

For 21 years Jennifer Mills has published Jennifer Mills News online, a banal-as-it-gets weekly compendium of her daily life, told in classic newspaper style. It’s understated and quietly very funny and if that sort of thing appeals to you, you can see all 21 years printed out and wallpapered at Bick Aux Gallery in Williamsburg now through March 19. Mills joins us to talk about the decades-long bit as well as her day job as a writer and producer on the NPR news quiz show “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me,” and, naturally, life in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

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Mar 06, 2023

00:42:26

For two decades, Binky Griptite was the guitarist, emcee and hype man for the Dap-Kings, backing the mighty Sharon Jones. These days he’s leading his own band. The Binky Griptite Orchestra is an old school rhythm and blues outfit in the vein of T-Bone Walker and Louis Jordan. Their album “Got Up and Walked” will be out soon. So will another album Binky produced, by singer-songwriter Brendan O’Hara. He’ll also be at SXSW this month, performing in a tribute concert to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Today he joins us to talk about his current projects, the story behind the Dap-Kings, working with Sharon Jones and the singer Lee Fields, recording with Janet Jackson, growing up in Milwaukee, deejaying and more.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

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Feb 27, 2023

00:43:02

Actor, writer, activist and Brooklynite Gbenga Akinnagbe joins us to discuss his career and his latest offscreen role: Working to save a 140-year-old living landmark in Bed-Stuy, a magnolia tree that has survived and thrived in the least likely place. Today its very existence is in peril — as is the environmental community center that was established around it in 1977. Akinnagbe is perhaps best known for his role as Chris Parlow, the terrifying assassin on HBO’s “The Wire.” He can currently be seen in FX’s “The Old Man” as a hit man sent to kill a former CIA operative played by Jeff Bridges. He also played Tom Robinson in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Today we talk about his career, his other philanthropic efforts, living in Brooklyn and more.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

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Feb 20, 2023

00:45:32

Hosted and co-created by award-winning journalist Alana Casanova-Burgess, “La Brega” is a podcast that has won best-of accolades for its reportage into various aspects of under-examined life in Puerto Rico. Now halfway through its second season, “La Brega,” which translates roughly to “the struggle,” is exploring Puerto Rican — and Caribbean — life and history through music. Specifically, through eight songs over eight episodes. Casanova-Burgess joins us this week to discuss her podcast, the process behind it, her life in Brooklyn, identity, music, journalism and more.

Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com

Email: hello@bkmag.com

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Twitter: @brooklynmag

Instagram: @brooklynmagazine

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Apr 24 | 00:43:16

The 'unapologetic quest' of Council Member Crystal HudsonI’m

Apr 17 | 00:51:46

Hari Kondabolu, vacation daddy

Apr 10 | 00:44:57

Morgan Monaco on the latest news from Prospect Park

Apr 03 | 00:28:54

Mistress Marley, financial dominatrix

Mar 27 | 00:41:23

The criminal mind of Gersh Kuntzman

Mar 20 | 00:59:47

Johnny Cirillo is watching New York

Mar 13 | 00:25:57

Jennifer Mills and the news that's barely fit to print

Mar 06 | 00:42:26

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Binky Griptite!

Feb 27 | 00:43:02

Gbenga Akinnagbe: 'Wire' star and activist

Feb 20 | 00:45:32

Alana Casanova-Burgess and the music of “La Brega”

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