Nassau Weekly

Sarah Williams

  • Buy [Gucci’s] Album

    Buy [Gucci’s] Album

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    In the video for the first single off his new LP _The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted_, Gucci Mane, sporting space-age bug-eyed sunglasses, a grey keffiyeh and a mink around his head, asks his audience, “Do you know what time it is?” The answer, of course, is Gucci Time. _The Appeal_, which dropped September 28, is…

  • How to Fake it in America

    How to Fake it in America

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    This review will be biased. It will be biased for two reasons. One: there are few things in the world I would rather do than Bryan Greenberg. Two: I’m from New York. These are important biases because Greenberg plays the protagonist, Ben Epstein, a jeans folder at Barney’s. And although the show’s title is _How…

  • White Stuff

    White Stuff

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    What do Asian girls, Barack Obama, divorce, and expensive sandwiches all have in common? No, not a White House scandal waiting to happen. You wish, Hillary supporters. All of the things listed are inexplicably loved by white people and detailed on the self-explanatory blog “Stuff White People Like.”

  • Killa Cam’Ron Digs Deep

    Killa Cam’Ron Digs Deep

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    In the sultry, slow, even-toned raps his fans have come to love, Cam tells the story of his escapades with a fine young piece and how he changed her life by hitting the bottom of her punani. His voice rides cleanly over the lyrics he spits, even when they somehow don’t actually rhyme.

  • Hipsterotica

    Hipsterotica

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    Jo was sitting behind the counter of Beacon’s Closet in Williamsburg. Her friend and co-worker Cathey was working the register and telling Jo about her most recent purchase at Strand Bookstore in the Village: “It’s like an annotated version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but instead of just writing about…

  • Letter From Istanbul

    Letter From Istanbul

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    When I sat down for the talk I expected the usual political song and dance. The one and only other politician I have met in a personal setting was John Edwards, and all I got from him was a lingering hand after a photo op, a beautiful toothy grin, and a cool breeze from his…