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Kristin Iversen is the Managing Editor at Brooklyn Magazine and the L Magazine. She has been described as "a hipster buzzword made flesh." This seems pretty accurate.
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, May 16, 2013
The 10 Worst Pick-Up Moves of All Time: Political Edition
by Kristin Iversen
Never tell a woman that you want her to "rub your tumor." It's not a good pick-up move.
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Anthony Weiner
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Larry Craig
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, May 15, 2013
The 5 Best Books for Brooklyn's Topless Book Club
by Kristin Iversen
All these books have women authors, naturally. We're very sex-positive here at
Brooklyn Magazine
.
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James Franco
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my mother is a fish
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Gigi
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The Cat
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Colette
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Autobiography of Red
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Anne Carson
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I Love Dick
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Chris Kraus
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Faithfull
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Marianne Faithfull
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After Claude
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Iris Owens
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, May 15, 2013
5 Controversial City Programs That Changed New York Forever
by Kristin Iversen
Will the city's bike share program change New York as we know it?
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controversy
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city planning
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development
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The Commissioner's Plan of 1811
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Greensward Plan
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Central Park
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The Measure
, May 14, 2013
Angelina Jolie, Christine Quinn, and the Art of the
New York Times
Overshare
by Kristin Iversen
When public figures let us in to their private lives.
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Christine Quinn
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The New York Times
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celebrity
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cancer
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mastectomy
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BRCA 1
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bulimia
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alcoholism
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campaigning
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Retta
,
Game of Thrones
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Sal Albanese
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, May 13, 2013
Why Being Lonely Will Probably Kill You
by Kristin Iversen
Feelings ruin everything.
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death
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diabetes
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society
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social needs
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friends
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social inequalities
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making things better
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setting the world on fire for a feeling
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, May 13, 2013
Game of Thrones: Jaime, Brienne, and the Bear. Oh. And Theon Gets Castrated.
by Kristin Iversen
Goodbye, Theon's famous cock.
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Game of Thrones
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The Bear and the Maiden Fair
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wooden swords
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Jaime Lannister is the best
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Brooklyn Abridged
, May 10, 2013
Are You a Lazy Millennial? Take a Quiz and Find Out
by Kristin Iversen
Usually quizzes are so great. Not this time. Not at all.
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Joel Stein
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Time
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quizzes
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"The Me Me Me Generation"
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The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
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, May 10, 2013
The 10 Best Author-to-Author Insults
by Kristin Iversen
Words hurt.
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authors
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fighting
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insults
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literary feuds
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Ernest Hemingway
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William Faulkner
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Gore Vidal
,
Norman Mailer
,
Charlotte Brontë
,
Jane Austen
,
Tom Wolfe
,
Mary McCarthy
,
JD Salinger
,
Virginia Woolf
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James Joyce
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Salman Rushdie
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John Updike
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Bret Easton Ellis
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David Foster Wallace
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, May 10, 2013
Which Brooklyn Subway Stops Are On the Verge of Collapse?
by Kristin Iversen
This is scary stuff, you guys. You'll never want to go on an elevated track again.
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danger
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bridges
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, May 9, 2013
Nobody Wants to Know Their Neighbors, Right?
by Kristin Iversen
This is what it looks like when life imitates "Seinfeld."
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New York
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Staples
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holidays
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stupid things
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a fool and his money are soon parted
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sometimes life is just like an episode of "Seinfeld"
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, May 9, 2013
Operation "Stupid Hipster" Lowers Crime In Cobble Hill
by Kristin Iversen
Dimwitted yuppies do dimwitted yuppie things.
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Cobble Hill
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The Measure
, May 8, 2013
The Best Brooklyn Booze Accessories
by Kristin Iversen
You don't just want to drink your booze straight out of the bottle, do you?
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accessories
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Brooklyn
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Stinky Brooklyn
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Hella Bitters
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Bartender's Set
,
Whisk
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ice cubes
,
The Future Perfect
,
wine glasses
,
Verre Rouge
,
Brook Farm General Store
,
bottle openers
,
dentistry
,
Recycled Whiskey Glass
,
the environment
,
Rosie Schaap
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Drinking With Men
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, May 8, 2013
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A Booze Playlist: The 20 Best Drinking Songs
by Kristin Iversen
Some of these songs are happy and upbeat. Most are really depressing.
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Booze
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drinking songs
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The Beastie Boys
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Nouvelle Vague
,
Tom Waits
,
The Walkmen
,
The Rolling Stones
,
A Tribe Called Quest
,
Fiona Apple
,
The Magnetic Fields
,
The Raconteurs
,
Snoop Dogg
,
Nina Simone
,
Sublime
,
Janis Joplin
,
Belle & Sebastian
,
Bob Dylan
,
Bruce Springsteen
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The Ramones
,
John Phillips
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Elliott Smith
,
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BK Food
, May 7, 2013
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Chef Dale Talde Connects Cultures at the Brooklyn Museum
by Kristin Iversen
Food and art. A natural pairing.
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Connecting Cultures
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Brooklyn Museum
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Eddie Huang
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Pork Slope
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Thistle Hill Tavern
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Talde
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BK Style
, May 7, 2013
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Gift Guide: Top 10 Brooklyn Mother's Day Presents
by Kristin Iversen
Go beyond 1-800 Flowers. Your mother deserves better than that.
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mothers
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children
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feral dogs
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CatBird
,
Molly Crabapple
,
n+1
,
Green Stone Spa
,
massages
,
Brooklyn Grange
,
Brooklyn Kitchen
,
Sackett Street Writers Workshop
,
the Future Perfect
,
Proust
,
S.W. Basics
,
Widow Jane
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Cacao Prieto
,
The Pines
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brunch
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, May 6, 2013
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Werewolves and Terrorism and Infectious Disease: An Interview with Benjamin Percy About His New Novel
Red Moon
by Kristin Iversen
"I wanted to take a knife to the nerve of the moment and, in doing so, it's like I am holding up a mirror with a crack running through it."
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, May 6, 2013
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There Is Now an Adam Yauch Park: And the Stories Behind the Names of 10 Other Brooklyn Places.
by Kristin Iversen
How did McCarren Park get its name?
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parks
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Beastie Boys
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MCA
,
Adam Horowitz
,
E.R. Squibb
,
Calvert Vaux
,
rhymes with fox
,
Kazimierz Pulaski
,
Kosciusko Street
,
Thomas Jefferson was a pretty big dick
,
David Ruggles
,
Quentin Roosevelt
,
why is there no Ave Q
,
Harry Chapin
,
Cat's In the Cradle
,
William Howard
,
Rising Sun tavern
,
Lady Deborah Moody
,
feminism
,
Patrick Henry McCarren
,
vice
,
corruption
,
gambling
,
local politics is a dirty
,
dirty game
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, May 6, 2013
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Game of Thrones: Climbing On Thin Ice
by Kristin Iversen
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention."
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TV
,
Game of Thrones
,
recap
,
the Wall
,
climbing
,
falling
,
Ros
,
nooooooo
,
chaos isn't a pit
,
chaos is a ladder
,
the things women do for men who give them good oral
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, May 2, 2013
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Which Subway Line Had the Most Delays Last Year?
by Kristin Iversen
There is now statistical proof that my subway line is the worst. No one can ever blame me for being late ever again!
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign
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according to statistics Manhattan is the worst
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, May 2, 2013
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"Will.i.amsburg": or The Day the
New York Times
Officially Became an Internet Troll
by Kristin Iversen
When a headline makes a Black Eyed Peas pun, you know the level of humor is going to be abysmal.
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The New York Times
,
Williamsburg
,
Henry Alford
,
trolling
,
fixies
,
beards
,
Wythe Hotel
,
Brooklyn
,
old people
,
are you really making a Black Eyed Peas pun in 2013?
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