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Show Review: Cylinder and Holus-Bolus (at The Douglas Street Music Collective)

By Mike Faloon (words) & Brett Essler (pictures)

New York City is my favorite city in the world. Its flaws may be many, and often rather unpleasant in odor, but its virtues prevail. This summer I’ve been reminded yet again of one of New York’s best features. It is this: no matter how long you’ve lived in and/or around the city it always has new things to offer.

Recently, Brett Essler (Go Metric online editor) and I ventured to the Douglas Street Music Collective, a rehearsal space turned club in Gowanus. Three great sets of music for a “suggested donation” of ten bucks.

Mid-Atlantic 49ers

By Hope Coppinger

In the wake of the closure of New Jersey’s only public television station, lawmakers have put forth a plan to divide New Jersey into two parts and offer the  sections to their respective neighbors, Pennsylvania and New York.

The move has been met with a mixed response. State agencies in both New York and Pennsylvania will scramble to revise vital statistics records for the nation’s most densely populated state, which will now show births, deaths and marriages to have taken place in their new states. While the project will create hundreds of long-term temporary jobs in both states, it will require tax hikes that will wipe out any savings New Jersey residents may have hoped to see as they join the tax rolls of their new home states. Residents of New York and Pennsylvania are also not happy to gain New Jersey’s financial troubles.