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It's been a moderately hot New York City summer, to say the least. New York has been under a heat advisory in the last couple of weeks with the weather hitting record-breaking temperatures.
Dave's Picks | Tips for being a freelance creative in NYC
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NPR | How Your Hot Showers And Toilet Flushes Can Help the Climate
In Memoriam | RIP Legendary Hip Hop photographer Chi Modu
Dave's Picks | WSJ | Tiny Pools Are Big in Cramped New York
Dave's Picks | Bibs Out, Bushwick: Michelin Approves Of These 7 Local Spots
Foodie alert
Speak to Dave always aims to share the latest or greatest hot spots in the hoods we rep. So hats off to Bushwick Daily for compiling this hot hot list of Michelin approved (“good little restaurants” or bib gourmands: lower-key restaurants selected by “guide inspectors for their very good value for money”) all of which are likely walking distance from wherever you hang your chapeaus. Oh hello 16 Manhattan and 32 Varet peeps .. who’s hungry now?
Dave's Picks | NYT | ‘Zoetrope’ Review: And You Thought Your Apartment Was Small?
They say … you can start by disregarding thread count. Here’s what else the pros know that you may not.
Let’s talk about glorious sleep and the art of how we do it best. While there may be as many ways to make a bed as there are doing dishes, with myriad choices from sheets and quilts to coverlets and duvets, one secret of life is that sleep is king and rules the day and your bedding shouldn’t stress you out. In this piece experts offer suggestions for dressing our bed, not unlike dressing to express ourselves and move through life as our best self.
Dave's Picks | NYT | There’s an Art to Making Your Bed
They say … you can start by disregarding thread count. Here’s what else the pros know that you may not.
Let’s talk about glorious sleep and the art of how we do it best. While there may be as many ways to make a bed as there are doing dishes, with myriad choices from sheets and quilts to coverlets and duvets, one secret of life is that sleep is king and rules the day and your bedding shouldn’t stress you out. In this piece experts offer suggestions for dressing our bed, not unlike dressing to express ourselves and move through life as our best self.
Dave's Picks | NYT | Welcome to the YOLO Economy
File Under: Choose happiness. Now?
Here’s a fascinating piece regarding a COVID trend, courtesy of WFH and the perils of our seemingly never ending lockdown. Perhaps you’ve made similar moves or know folks who, in the spirit of YOLO, were able to leave stable jobs in favor of postpandemic adventure? While we realize not everyone is fortunate to be so flexible as to abandon jobs or even careers in pursuit of happiness, it does beg a good look at the ways we can adapt, how perspectives shift, and how we prioritize as a society when backed into the corners of our homes, in order to simply stay alive. So this piece questions, when do we get to start living on our own terms?
Dave's Picks | NYT | How N.Y.C.’s Population Expert Says the City Will Bounce Back
Dave's Picks | Your Brookyln Guide's Best + Most Famous Pizzas in Brooklyn
Oh geez foodies
prepare yourselves for quite possibly the most exhaustive list of pizza joints in all the land you’re stompin’ on. And let’s not fight about it: we at Speak to Dave believe in making pizza, not war!
Feast your eyes on the incredible specimens below, bookmark the source and scoot your pizza lovin’ booties to these fine establishments and get you a slice ASAP.
HOLY HOLY . . . 👀
Dave's Picks ICYMI | NPR • Housing Projects And Empty Lots. Chanell Stone Reframes Nature Photography
California-based photographer Chanell Stone
is challenging the genre of nature photography, made popular in the 1900s by (typically white) men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The idea back then being that nature was remote, wild, and untouched — environments she notes in this NPR piece have too often been off limits or inaccessible to low income Black people.
Dave's Picks | NYT Opinion | They Escaped During The Pandemic. Now They Must PAY.
Dave's Picks | NYT | 90,000 Packages Are Stolen in N.Y.C. Every Day. How One Building Fought Back.
Interesting followup on package theft, a topic we’ve visited before — but this time, people are fighting back and we gotta say, you love to see it.
With rampant package theft still an ongoing problem, Speak to Dave is here to help you — just contact Jeff or Asa for a solution. But first, read on for tips and options to avoid theft in the first place.
Dave's Picks | Dr. Fauci Card Selling For $5k Proves Everything Is a Collectible
ArtNet | Artist Nick Cave Just Won a Bizarre Legal Fight Over Whether His Political Mural in a New York Village Is Actually Art. (It Is)
The town's board unanimously ruled that Cave’s text installation is indeed an artwork.
Taylor Dafoe, February 4, 2021
Gothamist | OMG SLUSH LAGOONS!!!
By Jen Carlson | Feb. 6, 2021
Behold — wholly good times is what this post is all about
h/t to Gothamist!
Gothamist | New Hidden Taco Shop Slinging First-Rate Birria In Bushwick
By Scott Lynch | Nov. 23, 2020 12:37 p.m.
