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Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast

Brooklyn Magazine

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.

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28:54

Mistress Marley, financial dominatrix

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/04/03

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

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41:23

The criminal mind of Gersh Kuntzman

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/03/27

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

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59:47

Johnny Cirillo is watching New York

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/03/20

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

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25:57

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

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/03/13

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,”

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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Binky Griptite!

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/03/06

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

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42:26

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Binky Griptite!

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/03/06

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

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43:02

Gbenga Akinnagbe: 'Wire' star and activist

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/02/27

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

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45:32

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

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/02/20

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

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41:20

Philanthropy and social justice: Jocelynne Rainey of...

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/02/06

Since its founding in 2009, the Brooklyn Community Foundation has helped provide more than $90 million in grants to exclusively Brooklyn nonprofits. Which is important because even though Brooklyn is home to nearly 30 percent of the nonprofits in New York city, its share of philanthropic giving is only 7.6 percent. Jocelynne Rainey, the president and CEO of the BCF since November of 2021, is working to change that, while leaning in to issues around racial and economic justice. A lifelong

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43:08

The ‘dust-kicker’: Artist Timothy Goodman is having a...

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/01/30

Timothy Goodman went from a tough childhood in Ohio to painting houses for a living, before painting major murals in Williamsburg and working with huge brands like Apple and Uniqlo. Now, he’s designed the latest Kevin Durant Nike. A troubled kid with lousy grades and raw ambition, it was getting his act together through therapy and moving to New York 19 years ago that Goodman found himself — and no small amount of success. His graphic memoir “I Always Think it’s Forever” is out this week. Brooklyn

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38:14

Gabrielle Gatto: Death educator and death doula

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/01/16

It’s an awkward thing for most of us, facing and accepting our mortality. But it’s not something we get to opt out of. As a death educator and coordinator of public programs at The Green-Wood Cemetery, and a death doula, Gabrielle Gatto thinks about death all the time. So today that’s what we’re going to talk about. We’ll get into what death education is and how it’s practiced at Green-Wood. We discuss trends in green burial, some of the cultural offerings at the cemetery and what its founders would

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01:06:25

Mike Sacks is good at bad writing

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/01/09

An editor at Vanity Fair and a contributor to the New Yorker, among others, Mike Sacks is the author of ten books. Two of those books are collections of in-depth interviews with profoundly influential comedy writers from the legendary to the less known but no less important. His other books take a little more explaining. Two of them are being re-published this week: “Stinker Lets Loose” is a deliberately badly written novelization of a 1970’s trucker movie that never actually existed. “Randy!” Is an

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54:06

Is Kareem Rahma a comedian yet?

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2023/01/02

Podcaster, screenwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur Kareem Rahma had a banner 2022. He wrote and starred in a movie directed by Nicholas “New York Nico” Heller that debuted at the Tribeca Festival. He launched a super viral TikTok account called “Keep the Meter Running,” and he created a smart new podcast called “First.” Today Rahma joins us on our podcast — the first episode of the year — to talk about who he is, where he came from, and why he’s suddenly all over our feeds these days. He also

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39:31

Sue Donoghue on the past, present and future of...

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/12/26

This week’s episode is our last episode of the year — and a repeat of our first episode of the year. Our conversation with Sue Donoghue, at the time the Prospect Park administrator and president of the Prospect Park Alliance, was our most downloaded and listened to episode of the year. Shortly after this episode ran, Donoghue got a promotion: She was tapped by Mayor Eric Adams to be the New York City Parks Commissioner, overseeing all the city’s parks. Here, we revisit our interview with Donoghue

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39:41

Greg Baxtrom, Boy Scout restaurateur

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/12/19

Chef and serial restaurateur Greg Baxtrom is behind acclaimed Prospect Heights staples Olmsted, Maison Yaki and relative newcomer Patti Ann’s Family Restaurant and Baker. A little over a week ago he launched a fourth restaurant — in Rockefeller Center. He joins the podcast today to discuss his mini empire and how discovered he wanted to be a chef in the first place — turns out learning how to make beef stew in the Boy Scouts had something to do with it. We talk about his resume, which is impressive

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40:31

Kenny Vance: The Duke of doo-wop

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/12/12

A Brooklyn kid, born in Flatbush in 1943, Kenny Vance came of age right along with rock and roll. He grew up around icons of doo-wop like fellow Brooklynites Little Anthony and the Imperials and the Jive Five. Vance himself would co-found the singing group Jay and the Americans, who were signed by the legendary songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller. Before he was 20 the group was scoring hits like “She Cried," and the band opened for the Beatles and The Rolling Stones on each of their first U.S. tours

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49:08

Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/12/05

Over the course of the past 24 years, Gogol Bordello has become a hardcore gypsy punk and global party music institution, rooted here in New York, but with an international orientation. The group — which infuses Eastern European folk and Romani melodies with punk energy, Latin inflections, touches of dub and polka — is known for its live shows in particular. In our conversation today frontman Eugene Hütz calls a typical Gogol Bordello show “relentlessly hardcore celebratory.” We discuss how the band

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49:06

Peter Shapiro's long strange trip

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/11/21

Chances are, if you put on, promote or produce something like 10,000 live concerts, you’re going to learn a few things. Just ask Peter Shapiro. The owner and operator of the Brooklyn Bowl venues, the legendary Capitol Theatre, and before that, the Wetlands Preserve, Shapiro is all of that … and also a Deadhead, a fact that is relevant because were it not for the Grateful Dead, he probably would never have gotten his start in the venue business at all. His book, “The Music Never Stops,” came out

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29:56

Eugene Mirman returns to Brooklyn!

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/11/14

Comedian and actor Eugene Mirman will be at the Bell House on Wednesday, November 16, to host a launch show and party for his new comedy record label PGF Records. Bobcat Goldthwait will be there, and so will Maeve Higgins, as well as other special guests. The night will be a callback to the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, the subject of the 2020 documentary “It Started as a Joke,” which explores Mirman’s role as a galvanizing force in the alternative comedy scene in the borough. We discuss all of

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37:15

‘Captain’ Kirk Douglas of the Roots and Hundred Watt...

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast ·

2022/11/07

For the past 20 years, “Captain” Kirk Douglas has been an integral member in a powerhouse of a hip hop band. As the Roots’ guitarist, Douglas has played on a string of critically acclaimed and occasionally Grammy-winning albums. On Friday he released “New Unknown,” his second solo album under the moniker Hundred Watt Heart. Introspective, occasionally a little psychedelic — with loads of guitar, Kirk’s vocals and a lot of rock — it’s maybe not what you’d expect from a member of the Roots. But it’s

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