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Mary Grace Garis

Bratty but with a heart of gold to match her dye job. Mary Grace Garis went from sitting at the Weird Kids' Table in suburban New Jersey to writing about the Weird Kids' Table that is modern day Brooklyn. She loves Morrissey, mozzarella sticks, and not much else. You can find her on Twitter at @MaryGraceGaris, all over publications like HelloGiggles, Extra Crispy, Bust Magazine and Elle Magazine, and in the bars of pizza places just off the L train.

Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Pinball and Miller High Life With Bethlehem Steel

I Googled how long it takes for milk to go sour, and unless Becca Ryskalczyk can chug a gallon in 2 hours and 45 minutes, I shouldn't bring it as a gift. Granted, almost accidentally killing a musician would be such a throwback to when I started Morning After, and I do love things coming full...

Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Vegan Noodles and Sake With Veda Rays

I internally scream about 20 times coming off the Q train, badgered left and right about handbags, handbags, handbags. Truthfully, last time I was in Chinatown I was below the legal drinking age. But Veda Rays vocalist James Stark made a very emphatic pitch for Bodhi Kosher Vegetarian Restaurant....

Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Chicken, Biscuits and Bottomless Mimosas With No Honeymoon

I’m lost picking out my outfit to see No Honeymoon, just anxiously pacing in black tights while “Don’t Want To” glides through the apartment. I’m digging the ‘80s movie vibes it’s blessing my morning with, Cait Smith’s haunting, hooting voice gently complimenting the sparkling verses, which battle...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Veggie Pancakes and Ale With Lost Boy ?

Origin stories: they’re typically how I kick off these off, some pseudo-enticing meetcute in the heart of the scene. A half-drunken beg for an interview, an impromptu striptease, a deep side-eye at Two Boots Williamsburg. A chat in front of Little Sunnyville Gutterway Footskips Stadium. A bite from...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Peaches and Sausage With the Values

Though it feels like it happened 40 years ago, I remember clearly when I first saw The Values. It was in the backyard during Putnam-o-Rama, and three girls passed in matching, spangly sunset-gradient dresses, golds and silvers bleeding into deep orchid. And Sean Jones said, "That's The Values....

Video Premiere

Holly Overton With Midnight People "Summer Solstice 2017"

Over the weekend I saw a glitter-painted, broadly-grinning Holly Overton emerge from DRTY SMMR in a candy-striped Beach Boys-inspired outfit, and I knew it would be a good night. There are those artists, those human beings, that have a celebratory spirit, that radiate positive energy and want to...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Peanut Butter and Fish Tacos With Medium Mystic

Little Edie is off kitty Prozac and living her best life in Queens. The former teen-mom bodega cat turned Medium Mystic muse is joining us for coffee (she's having a "coffee phase") and tacos. It’s sporting of her; Edith really prefers bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel (never crossaintwich) and is...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Ricotta French Toast With Def.grls

"I can’t really talk, I’m having brunch with..." I play with my platinum blonde wig and tug the string of my leopard print bikini top while addressing the poor Fios representative at my door. "...clients right now." Behind me Mark Brickman and Hannah Teeter are picking out our audio-video...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Tutu's or Tina's With Fruit and Flowers

"Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ." I'm sitting bar-side at Tutu's and Ana Becker has confirmed, via Facebook messenger roughly 55 minutes after I got there, that 3/4ths of Fruit and Flowers are grabbing a table at Tina's Place. The poor bartender has been listening to one of my patented anxiety rambles...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Breakfast Bowls at Jimmy's With Fraidycat

"I’m so hungover, I’m dying. You guys, I’m dying for water." Fraidycat must think I'm tremendously professional right now, my head throbbing, my pores seeping sweat, regret, and hastily applied gardenia rollerball perfume. I'm waiting with the three-piece—made up of Andy Kinsey, Charlotte Kahn,...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Diner Daze With the Off White

I'm not upset or anything, but Sean Jones got me to profile The Off White under the pretenses of a home-cooked meal. I remember it clearly, and by that I mean I barely remember it at all. I was at Milo’s Yard sandwiched between him and Michael Stuart Grossman. Sean was hand-feeding me a samosa and...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Brinner and Beer With Lost Kingdoms

The family's all capitalizing on Terry Edelman's generosity, our breakfast tab running sky high. By "family" I mean half of Lost Kingdoms, John Barber and Dan Keller, scene queen Tarra Thiessen (my sun, my moon, my stars, our mutual friend, and AudioFemme's Social Media Queen) and my broke-ass...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Bloody Marys at Enid's With Evelyn

"We're a lot to handle." "We're pretty laid back." Dani Lencioni and Drew Broussard overlap the contradiction adorably, with the former shooting a broad red grin at the latter. Dani is the frontman—frontwoman, technically, but she wears the pants in this family and bears the tongue-in-cheek title...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Hot Cakes With Bloom Waves

There are three ways Bloom Waves’ Ren Julius Reyes saved me before we even met, with the first involving the doldrums of being stuck in Brooklyn during SXSW. It’s not that I even have designs on Texas, it’s just that being stuck in a gray, slushie hellhole during Indie Kid Spring Break is rough...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Coffee and Omelettes With Dahl Haus

“Hey, you’re Blaise, right? Can I talk to you outside for a second?” It's Goth Prom at Footlight and I'm ambushing Dahl Haus's leading lady Blaise Dahl with zero chill and a nervous peppiness out of place for the event. We look (unintentionally) identical; blonde hair, sheer top (can’t lose?) but...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Donuts and Bagels With Jackal Onasis

I’m surprised when Jordyn Blakely greets me on Manhattan Ave, all seaweed hair, smudgy make-up, black faux-fur coat and a cheerful open-faced expression that should counteract her hipness. Barely an hour ago I watched her get shampooed in Stove’s “Blank” video with a stoic gaze and a steady,...

Interviews · Monthly Mondays · Morning After

Crepes With Darkwing

Darkwing holds a special place in my heart, which is why I don't throw a bag of donuts through the second story window of Louis Cozza’s apartment. The band is not picking up their phone, and it’s evident why. If I could hear Darkwing’s warbling and smashing from the street, they're not hearing a...

Live Review

Avery Mandeville and Lords of Liechtenstein @ Pianos

I always end up sprinting through the lower Lower East Side, the annoying part 15+ minutes off the L, Mercury Lounge and Berlin and all those dive bars I’ve cried in and made out in—usually on the same night. I sprint because I am always late, just like I was late to Avery Mandeville and the Lords...

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