El-Gamasy regularly appears on Egyptian news, commenting on U.S. politics, broadcasting from the back of his bodega.

State Senator Julia Salazar opens up about her youth, inspirations, early battles with public perception and more.

Joaquin Baca opens Teo, an izakaya joint, after Leaving Momofuku and closing the Brooklyn Star in Williamsburg.

  Brian Jones Kraft @JayOwyns Podcaster Virgil Texas interviewed State Senate candidate Julia Salazar this Tuesday in front of a packed house at Starr Bar. “Someone once said there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen,” said Patrick Shepherd, a volunteer for Salazar’s campaign for State Senator during the introduction. Attendees were […]

After Hatem El-Gamasy’s profile appeared in The New York Times, the backroom political pundit and Ridgewood bodega owner stopped getting interviews from back home.

Photos from MayDay’s Facebook Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald, together with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Pointras, spoke to a packed audience Thursday night on the top floor of Bushwick’s Mayday, a newly opened “bar and community space” on Starr street in northern part of the booming North Brooklyn neighborhood. Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty […]