https://www.frye-castillo.comRSS Feed for Matthew Frye-CastilloenTue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://glreview.org/article/on-the-gays-who-kill-subgenre/Micah Nemerever’s These Violent Delights takes its title from Romeo and Juliet. Set in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s, the novel features an equally doomed relationship between two teenage Jewish college students, Paul (serious-minded, middle-class, artistic) and Julian (charismatic, wealthy, seemingly duplicitous). The two bond in a philosophy class over what they see as moral cowardice from most of the world’s inhabitants: Every day they observe the common cruelties that have enabled such horro...Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://glreview.org/article/on-the-gays-who-kill-subgenre/https://lambdaliteraryreview.org/2022/03/edgar-gomez-high-risk-homosexual/Publishers tend to market gay memoirs as campy, joyful, and frivolous or serious, profound, and brooding. High-Risk Homosexual, the debut memoir by the talented Edgar Gomez, manages to fall into both categories—a funny beach-read with piercing cuts into lived reality, all conveyed in a wry yet generous tone.  The voice and structure of High-Risk Homosexual make each chapter a propulsive delight. Gomez could write beautifully about a toothpick, but the 29-year-old has gathered a roster of pecu...Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://lambdaliteraryreview.org/2022/03/edgar-gomez-high-risk-homosexual/https://lambdaliteraryreview.org/2020/04/this-town-sleeps/The writer Dennis E. Staples’ debut novel This Town Sleeps (Counterpoint Press) takes place on a 667-person Minnesota reservation town named Geshig. In a sparse and beautiful page-long prologue, we encounter a violent act against Kayden Kelliher, a 17-year-old Geshig High School basketball star. His death, brought on by gang violence and communal depression, haunts the town in this story of violence, redemption, and self-determination. Years later, the sudden murder of another teen affects every...Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://lambdaliteraryreview.org/2020/04/this-town-sleeps/https://bushwickdaily.com/community/6410-anything-goes-at-mama-d-s/A new speakeasy bonanza on the border of Ridgewood and Bushwick, features everything from your wildest trip: unspeakably good pastries, intelligent chit-chats over film, a bathroom lacquered in Golden Girls memorabilia, another plastered with cinematic porn cut-outs (visitors are welcome to add photographs of their own flesh to the wall).  This new project is the brainchild of a photographer, Diana, whose energy, vision, and nurturing camaraderie earned her the nickname Mama D among her f...Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://bushwickdaily.com/community/6410-anything-goes-at-mama-d-s/https://www.star-revue.com/the-persistence-of-morgan-ohara/It’s hard to know where to start with the artist Morgan O’Hara. Since the late 70s, she’s drawn over 4,000 pieces from everyday life — dinner with some lively Italians, a Noam Chomsky lecture, a Taiwanese Lion Dance performance — works she calls “Live Transmission.” On first approach, you’ll see a condense fog of scribbles or a soft web of lines so threadbare to looks like lace. But picking a line (any line!) and following its curve and density, its meetings with the velocity of its neighbors, t...Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.star-revue.com/the-persistence-of-morgan-ohara/https://www.star-revue.com/6700-2/In retrospect, it was inevitable: Facebook now streams original content that is actually good. Nearly 70 percent of Americans have a Facebook account, and the whole platform is made to like, watch, and share “content.” With the fog light of hindsight, it’s amazing that Facebook didn’t capitalize on their captive audience sooner. Amazon and Netflix both set sail with scripted TV in 2013. Facebook Watch launched 2017 but has focused on sports and 10-30 minute talk or reality shows, i.e. stuff Face...Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.star-revue.com/6700-2/https://www.star-revue.com/photos-from-your-pharmacy/Innovative photography at BWAC  Queens-raised artist James Venuti is a pharmacy manager by day and a photographer by all other hours. His sprawling image of the Flatiron Building “Turn to the Right” is on display at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), the 25,000 square foot warehouse that continues to be a remarkable incubator of emerging and well-established artists. “Turn to the Right” is part of his compelling series Living Frames, photos of iconic NYC landmarks where each photograp...Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.star-revue.com/photos-from-your-pharmacy/https://www.star-revue.com/view-bridge-waterfront-museum/If “Death of a Salesman” deals with economic whiplash and “The Crucible” warns of religious frenzy, Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” reckons with the tidal force of sexuality. Brave New World Repertory Theater in Flatbush does memorable justice to the classic, now running through June 24 and directed by Alex Dmitriev. It’s mid-1950s Red Hook, and according to lifelong resident and lawyer Alfieri (Joe Gioco) the Sicilian population has calmed down over the years. Alfreri, by turns narrat...Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.star-revue.com/view-bridge-waterfront-museum/https://www.star-revue.com/hidden-histories-mary-whalen/When the Queen Mary 2 was docked at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, on May 17, Red Hook took notice.   Mark’s Pizzeria put out a sign welcoming the ocean liner that temporarily reconverted the skyline.   “I have noticed the QM2 a few times,” Christina Daniels at Pioneer Works wrote in an email. “It always takes me a minute to realize it’s there because it’s so massive and looks like a high-rise that popped up overnight rather than a cruise ship.”   Through a galley window of the Mary A. Whalen, a...Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.star-revue.com/hidden-histories-mary-whalen/https://www.star-revue.com/new-yorks-popular-writing-method-youve-never-heard/Even if you have zero interest in writing, you’ve probably seen a cab-yellow newsstand of catalogs for Gotham Writers Workshop, or the lime green advertisements for Sackett Street Writers Workshop. Since 2002, Sackett Street has worked with over 3,500 writers, and Gotham Writers (founded in 1993) currently averages 2,800 New Yorkers a year with their in-person classes. But trumping both of these two well-known programs is the less publicly glitzy group, New York Writers Coalition (NYWC). Founded...Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.star-revue.com/new-yorks-popular-writing-method-youve-never-heard/https://www.chance-magazine.com/portfolio/c6-13-pearl-damour-lost-in-the-meadow-matt-caprioli/Chance Magazine is a serialized art book about design for live performance.Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0100https://www.chance-magazine.com/portfolio/c6-13-pearl-damour-lost-in-the-meadow-matt-caprioli/https://www.adn.com/arts/article/bodyvox/2015/03/26/In 2005, the future executive director of the Anchorage Concert Association, Jason Hodges, was watching a video of a man dancing with a backhoe. Hodges was just entering the world of event programming in Alaska, and he was surprised not only by the odd presentation of man and machine, but also by the fact that he began to feel sympathy for both the farm equipment and whoever was dancing with it. The film was called "Deere John," and the man dancing with it was Jamey Hampton, who, along with his...Tue, 31 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100https://www.adn.com/arts/article/bodyvox/2015/03/26/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drink-sustainably-heineke_b_5533118For Heineken, sustainable practices reduce the risks that get in the way of profit. "Everything we're doing in the area of sustainable sourcing is very much driven by a company strategy to mitigate risk, and is not, unfortunately, driven by a certain business opportunity," Dickstein said. For Heineken, sustainable practices reduce the risks that get in the way of profit. "Everything we're doing in the area of sustainable sourcing is very much driven by a company strategy to mitigate risk, and i...Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0100https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drink-sustainably-heineke_b_5533118https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drink-sustainably-heineke_b_5533118For Heineken, sustainable practices reduce the risks that get in the way of profit. "Everything we're doing in the area of sustainable sourcing is very much driven by a company strategy to mitigate risk, and is not, unfortunately, driven by a certain business opportunity," Dickstein said. For Heineken, sustainable practices reduce the risks that get in the way of profit. "Everything we're doing in the area of sustainable sourcing is very much driven by a company strategy to mitigate risk, and i...Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0100https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drink-sustainably-heineke_b_5533118https://quipmag.com/story-time-with-the-zolas/It was the British Columbia Boys’ Choir that brought The Zolas together some 15 years ago. Since then, Zachary Gray and Tom Dobrzanski carried their vocal talents to Lotus Child until 2009, when the duo released the heavily praised Tic Toc Tic. Their latest album, Ancient Mars (2012), has an atmospheric quality with darker lyrics. “Cold Moon” and “Strange Girl” were heavily influenced by exes. Every song is marked by catchy riffs, clever lyrics, and refreshing realness. Though “Knot in My Heart”...Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0100https://quipmag.com/story-time-with-the-zolas/https://quipmag.com/kid-koala-looking-back-and-moving-forward/You know you’ve made it when you appear on BrainyQuote.com. Eric San (stage name “Kid Koala”) has come a long way since DJing the parties of high school friends. He’s toured with Radiohead and the Beastie Boys, wrote music for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, worked with the Gorillaz and Deltron 3030 (“The hip-hop supergroup,” in the words of David Letterman when they appeared on his show Oct 15). Almost single-handedly, he’s lifted scratching into a new stratosphere, creating the genre “turntable b...Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0100https://quipmag.com/kid-koala-looking-back-and-moving-forward/https://quipmag.com/kid-koala-looking-back-and-moving-forward/You know you’ve made it when you appear on BrainyQuote.com. Eric San (stage name “Kid Koala”) has come a long way since DJing the parties of high school friends. He’s toured with Radiohead and the Beastie Boys, wrote music for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, worked with the Gorillaz and Deltron 3030 (“The hip-hop supergroup,” in the words of David Letterman when they appeared on his show Oct 15). Almost single-handedly, he’s lifted scratching into a new stratosphere, creating the genre “turntable b...Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0100https://quipmag.com/kid-koala-looking-back-and-moving-forward/https://quipmag.com/reading-into-junip-interview-with-jose-gonzalez/Argentine-born Jose Gonzalez’s trademark voice remains kind in the most stressful of situations. Quip spoke to Gonzalez while a soccer riot was going on in his hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, as he was fleeing a helicopter before the interview began: “I’m sorry, let me get to a quieter place, just one moment please.” What Rolling Stone calls a “pastoral kindness” echoes through Junip, the band Gonzalez got his start with, and is returning to with renewed energy. Junip consists of Gonzalez, Elias...Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100https://quipmag.com/reading-into-junip-interview-with-jose-gonzalez/