If you’re like us you probably can’t get enough of all the goodies that Troutman Street establishments have to offer
On the Friday before Pride Day (and just in time for Bushwick Pride this coming weekend), I had the enormous pleasure of seeing the New York premier of an indie comedy about lesbian prostitutes working the streets of NYC and the clitorises of some mild to severely deranged Republican housewives
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It’s crazy making time again! As I’m writing this column to you now, I realize I am sublimating my own anxiety about the coming weekend that I also am personally invested in
To the many Brooklyn couples who have seen their dreams of a dream wedding shattered by the untimely financial ruin of ReBar, 1 Knickerbocker offers some hope
I spent some time with artist Cibele Vieira last week because of my involvement with the Bushwick Open Studio Benefit, which as far as I can tell, Cibele was completely committed to
Ok, well that’s a trick question that I wrote myself, but it’s still leads to good advice! If you want to hang with the artist community here, this Sunday, May 4, 6-9PM at Storefront Ten Eyck, 324 Ten Eyck Street is Bushwick Open Studios Benefit
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In this letter I received this week, a young woman wanted to know if she should wait out to see if her boyfriend would commit to being monogamous
I love the small, Gowanus-based gypsy brewery, Grimm Artisanal Ales, which I wrote about last November for a Bushwick Brews column
We Know Memes_Phone Calls_Dr. Lisa Call me old-fashioned or simply old, but I have recently learned the phone can be an important tool to getting your needs met in life. However, it takes balls to use the phone for its actual purpose of making a call; the phone makes us often feel vulnerable and needy. […]
As one of the self-proclaimed “Most Insecure People on the Planet,” my evaluation of whether to take things personally or not is something I have struggled with all of my life
I realized the other day when I was having a discussion with a friend how I’d like to get a hold of some mitten clips because of what a disaster I am at keeping track of scarves, gloves, sweaters, arghh, all of that
Before we even start
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I found out that a lot of Bushwick art people were going down to Miami last week, and I know this sounds crazy, but I felt like it was up to me to see that nothing bad happened to them
I’m a little bit terrified of Belgian beers
At the risk of beating a dead horse here, I thought it would be fun and interesting to do a follow-up to the awesome story my colleagues did on five places to get laid in Bushwick
Before we get started, I want to remind you to please send me your questions/issues to lisa
I took a sabbatical to catch up on some art and performance projects I had deadlines on, and I am so happy and relieved to be back — I missed this column so much, I almost had to go back to therapy!
I’m taking a sabbatical
I had to struggle to get some questions together this week
I got this invite a few weeks ago and could tell right away it was totally up my alley: SINGLE AND LOOKING, ArtHelix, 56 Bogart Street, March 12-27, 2013
As an advice columnist, I often read other advice columns for inspiration
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This week, performance artist Ann Hirsch takes a stab at helping me understand this phenomenon
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I was really pleased to read James R
I love answering questions here, but sometimes you get some that you can’t believe are real
On duty as Dr
As I pointed out last week, sex and partying are important, but to really have a healthy emotional life, working hard and being productive is a key ingredient