Recent Entries

• What Makes a Neighborhood Actually Hit Different

  by Dez Fontaine May 6
  You know that feeling when you walk down a street and something just clicks? Not because it's fancy or Instagram worthy, but because it FEELS like something. That's what I've been thinking about lately, sitting on my stoop at midnight with some bodega coffee that shouldn't be that good but somehow i...

• Why I Stopped Fighting My Night Owl Nature and Started Living Like a Vampire

  by Dez Fontaine May 6
  Yo, real talk - society wants us all to be morning people. That whole "early bird gets the worm" energy is pushed on us from like age five, right? Wake up at 6 AM, be productive, watch the sunrise, blah blah blah. But nobody talks about us night owls. The ones who feel most alive when the sun goes d...

• The Streets Are Speaking and You Better Learn the Language

  by Dez Fontaine May 6
  Yo, let me talk to you about something that's been living rent-free in my head lately. Street art, graffiti, whatever you wanna call it - that stuff out there on the walls of this city is real art, and I'm tired of people sleeping on it. I'm talking about the stuff that makes you stop mid-walk and j...

• The Real Talk on Graffiti and Why Your City Needs It More Than You Think

  by Dez Fontaine May 5
  So I'm walking through the warehouse district last week, right, and there's this massive piece that just stopped me in my tracks. Full wall, maybe twenty feet across, and it's this intricate wildstyle with these characters that look like they're literally breathing off the concrete. And I'm standing...

• Why Local Musicians Are the Real Backbone of Everything Worth Caring About

  by Dez Fontaine May 5
  Look, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend the streaming algorithm cares about your city's best kept secret. That kid making beats in his basement while working third shift at the warehouse, the girl with the violin who plays indie folk outside the farmers market, the crew that turns a defunct warehou...