Hatsune Miku / Anamanaguchi @ Hammerstein Ballroom Patrick Slevin July 20, 2016 Concerts NEW YORK—Major shifts in technology have always changed music, whether in its sound or its performance, and often in both. The introduction of the steel-framed piano had an outsized impact on classical and ... Read More...
Enslaved @ Irving Plaza Patrick Slevin March 16, 2016 Concerts MANHATTAN, NY—A warm December night made coat check unnecessary at Irving Plaza for the oddly-matched bill of Between The Buried and Me and Enslaved. On paper, it was a sensible combination of progressive m... Read More...
David Bowie: 1947 – 2016 Patrick Slevin January 13, 2016 Columns (Photo by Mark Weiss) A man so out of time and place, he created his own and changed all of ours. And he did it again, and again, and again. But no more. The singular rockstar outcast, David Bowie, ha... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Budget Ideology Fails Outside Of A Vacuum Patrick Slevin February 16, 2011 Columns Poll Shows Americans Balance Budget Better When They're Actually Given A Budget To Balance As a March 4 deadline looms for approval of a new budget (as well as the humiliating process of raising the debt cei... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Freedom Isn’t Free, And Neither Is Oil Patrick Slevin February 2, 2011 Columns 1 Nobody loves a despot when he's down and out. Or when there are thousands of rioters outside of his opulent palace. The recent ousting of Tunisian "President" Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and the current (as of t... Read More...
Sleep @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple Patrick Slevin October 6, 2010 Concerts BROOKLYN, NY—Much-hyped reunion shows from bands unappreciated during their time are often once-in-a-lifetime events, but in the New York area, it's fairly common. You know, every few months. Sleep's coming... Read More...
The Austerity Measurement: Don’t Blame The Internet, Blame The Business Model Patrick Slevin October 6, 2010 Columns 3 In the last few weeks, business models appeared to shuffle away from the in-store experience and toward the Internet ever further—or the "cloud," which is the fancy word of the day. Remember when you surfed the... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Exporting Our Imports Patrick Slevin September 29, 2010 Columns 5 It is to wonder which of President Obama's former financial advisor's fuzzy aspiration it was to double the U.S. export market in five years. Most likely, the honor goes to the outgoing Larry Summers, but in th... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: New York Tobacconistas And Simulated Sovereignty Patrick Slevin September 16, 2010 Columns To the addicted, a deal on their drug of choice is attractive in almost any circumstance. A dedicated drinker will go out of their way to buy cases of their preferred brand at a larger outlet for a third less t... Read More...
