Hasta La Ideas

Founded in 2011 by Brooklyn-based designer Shinya Hasegawa, Battenwear—formerly known as Batten Sportswear—takes a playful approach to active menswear design, favoring unconventional fabrics and colorways with a vintage surf-inspired aesthetic. Delivering all of the above and more is the recently launched SS 2013 collection, anchored by soft pastels and…

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Opening tonight, 7 February 2013, at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, “Veal” is a multidisciplinary performance that marries unlikely traditions from opera to industrial design. Thematically, the show plays off of the notion of the “industrial animal,” looking at the process from artificial insemination to life in confinement and…

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When we first discovered Grady’s Cold Brew we were delighted to have delicious, cold brewed, New Orleans-style coffee delivered weekly by a seemingly never-ending troupe of handsome young men. Since those early days Grady’s has grown, expanding out of founder Grady Laird’s home kitchen into a large warehouse in…

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by Blair Milbourne In December of 2011, designer Junichi Nakane headed to Mali on what some might call a cross-cultural expedition of friendship. Journeying through the country, he noticed the lack of clean water sources in the village of Tireli in the central plateau region, and his friend cited the…

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Despite the hot dog’s almost iconic status in New York, friends Tony Fragogiannis and Billy Mulholland had a hard time finding a frank that lived up to the classic’s name. Frustrated with a market filled with lackluster and over-processed options, the pair decided to try making their own. They…

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