As downtown New Yorkers grew tired of the bar scene, there arose a need for something else besides belligerent door men, sloppy loose chicks, mooching of your boy’s bottle, lists, bad djs and hot smokey, skinny spaces. Enter The Bench: A public outing (and ceremony even) created three men of leisure, three men of renaissance, three men who just want to chill in public sometimes. These three men are non-other than Matt Goias, Max Glazer and On-The-Go Ari. Thanks to these men, along with fourth man Espo (known to his mommy as Steven Powers) and several other leisure seeking downtown folks, we all were given a place to see life pass us by together, right on the street, on the corner of Houston and Orchard in the Lower East Side.The bench attracted the brightest “talent” that downtown New York has to offer.

Now, the guys who brought you The Bench, bring you their new blog Business Class NYC. Judging from their gut-busting antics of the past, this should be a regular visit for your RSS reader. We have only one question for the Bench guys: When is it coming back?

Pictured above: Dante Ross’ grammy at The Bench.

The homie Muggs and the spit machine Planet Asia will be making a special appearance at SouthPaw in Brooklyn this  Wednesday. An appearance from Muggs in New York isn’t common, so we’re excited for this. Additionally, Cypress Hill is being honored at VH1’s Hip Hop Honors next Monday. Muggs and Planet Asia can be found together on their new album Pain Language, out now.

Willi Chevalier
Sigmaringen, Germany
Sigmaringen Beard Club 

On May 23, 2009 Anchorage, Alaska will host the world beard and moustache championships. We thought this was quite relevant since the youg people today seem to be loving their facial hair. All you moustache-twisting hipsters, buy your tickets now. Just ask yourself one question before you do. Do you think you can keep up with these guys?:


Franz “Schani” Mitterhauser
Stockerau, Austria
East Bavarian Beard Club


Elmar Weisser
Brigachtal, Germany
Swabian Beard Club

NEW YORK (AP) — Almost two years after being pried ignominiously from the mud by a phalanx of huffing tugboats and towed off to a shipyard for a major overhaul, the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid is returning home.

Via The AP.

We caught this on our boy Kaos’s great Kaos Effect blog. Serious business.

Mathematicians in California could be in line for a $100,000 prize (£54,000) for finding a new prime number which has 13 million digits.

Via BBC

The Black N Blue folks will be dropping their DVD soon. Trailer is below. Also, come check them out at Southpaw with us as we celebrate Frank Book 33.

Click the flyer or here to RSVP.

Sunday September 28thFeaturing DJs:
Soul
Stress
LiondubFree with RSVP: events@frank151.com
@SouthPaw 125 5th Ave
Brooklyn, NY
7pm-2am

Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia (along with Lord Sear) had (along with the Wake Up Show) the greatest hip-hop radio show of all time. Check out this little breakdown of what that was all about right here.