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The Water Club
During college and for a couple years after, I worked at a Manhattan restaurant as a valet car parker. There is not a lot of valet car parking in Manhattan, but they had it at the Water Club, where we dubbed ourselves โNew Yorkโs First Valet Corps,โ in no small part because there werenโt many/any other rival valet groups. This was a trend that would continue in my life later when I was in NYCโs โmost powerful jug bandโ and โBrooklynโs Greatest French rock band.โ
William Carlos Williams: Poet of the Left
Often presented by literary critics as a liberal with paternalistic instincts towards the working poor, poet William Carlos Williams was in fact one of the most exuberantly left-wing poets of his generation.
Berlin as a Community Space vs. Berlin as a Business: A Discussion with Jolene Saint
Late last year, Chicagoโs beloved queer nightspot Berlin closed its doors amid a controversial union drive. I was first drawn to this editorial in the Chicago Tribune by a prominent photo of my friend Marten Katze, dismayed to find, however, that this powerful image image was appended to a childish anti-worker screed. I decided to speak with a Berlin union organizer and get the workersโ side of the story.ย
On Political Repression: A Hard Crackers Discussion with Michael Deutsch
Michael Deutsch is an experienced human rights attorney in the U.S., perhaps one of the most veteran and well-informed lawyers at that extremely difficult craft in this country. ย Michael graciously allowed us at Hard Crackers to pick his brains and share some of his experiences with us.