Shalom, Motherfuckers

On a recent Sunday, actor Peter Coyote stood behind the bench in the imposing, faux-marble-columned Brooklyn Surrogate Court and yelled in phlegmy Yiddish tones, ” Sheket B’vakasha! Sheket B’vakasha! “

Nearly 20 men dressed in yarmulkes, payess and prayer shawls threw their fists in the air and shouted “Hey!” before heeding Mr. Coyote’s call for Read More

Wolf Man Slacker

From the window seat at Cremcaffe restaurant, horror filmmaker

Larry Fessenden kept an eye on the sidewalk as he talked about his childhood

fear of the Frankenstein monster.

“I would sit in my bed and look at that crack in the door and

say, ‘There’s nothing there now, but in one second I could Read More