{"id":2250,"date":"2010-01-21T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/tower-tech-nerds\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:25:15","slug":"tower-tech-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/21\/tower-tech-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Tech-Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/culture\/tower-tech-nerds-late-lamented-record-store-hosts-punk-nostalgists\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/culture\/tower-tech-nerds-late-lamented-record-store-hosts-punk-nostalgists\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">Tower Tech-Nerds? Late, Lamented Record Store Hosts Punk Nostalgists<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/author\/leon-neyfakh\/\" alt=\"Home page of Leon Neyfakh\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">Leon Neyfakh<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolongerempty.com\/nle\/images\/Logo_Empty_01.gif\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" align=\"right\" \/>On Friday, Jan. 15, the old Tower Records building on Broadway and Fourth Street was the site of a big, funny party celebrating the opening of a music-themed art show organized by No Longer Empty, a group of curators who mount exhibitions of contemporary art in vacant storefronts around the city.<\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece of the show, on view at 692 Broadway till Feb. 13, is an installation repurposing the space as a cartoonish simulation of a bustling, pre-Internet music store called \u201cNever Records.\u201d Taken together, the sprawling, mixed-media exhibition is meant to function as a monument to the glory days of music retail, complete with racks of vinyl for browsing, band posters on the walls and a stage for in-store appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The line to get into the opening on Friday snaked around the block, even after the organizers ran out of the low-calorie, electrolyte-enhanced vodka drink they were promoting on behalf of their liquor sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/culture\/tower-tech-nerds-late-lamented-record-store-hosts-punk-nostalgists\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Observer Tower Tech-Nerds? Late, Lamented Record Store Hosts Punk Nostalgists By\u00a0Leon Neyfakh On Friday, Jan. 15, the old Tower Records building on Broadway and Fourth Street was the site of a big, funny party celebrating the opening of a music-themed art show organized by No Longer Empty, a group of curators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}