Summary graphic: A ship, the Maritime Trader, passes through the Soo Locks while a dockworker looks on.

Sault Ste. Marie is pronounced Soo Saint Marie. It and its Canadian twin city form a dot on the map that you may or may not have seen. So why did we spend an afternoon there? The same reason a lot of people do: the ships passing through the Soo Locks.

Summary graphic: Dan and Matt holding sticks of Xinjiang BBQ

Normally when we find a barbecue place that we like it’s in a hard to reach small town. Then we rave about these meals to our friends, which often leaves them feeling envious. Fortunately, our College Point Crawls now allow us to bring our friends to a not so far-flung barbecue find.

Summary graphic: Two photos of Wayne Kramer - one in a suit and tie performing at Lincoln Center, and one of him playing a rock rock club.

The ending of Wayne Kramer’s first show in New York in ten years should have been awesome. Instead, when the cry of “it’s time to kick out the jams motherfuckas!!!” rang out, it just felt out of place. And that was a good thing.

Summary graphic: A group of people walk to The Pourhouse in College Point, Queens from across the street.

“At the heart of the matter is what it means to be from Queens, a 2.3-million-person slice of New York City that no one beyond its borders knows anything about.”

–Invitation to the first College Point Class Conflict Pub Crawl, October 20, 2006