Did anyone check out the 80s Hardcore show at Cakeshop on Friday? I want a full scene report. In the meantime, here’s a 1988 ABC-7 investigation into the city’s skinhead culture.

In my time I have befriended many a skinhead. Not only are they not all racists, they’re some of the most fervent anti-racists you’ll meet, as the racists make them look bad. Case in point: Brooklyn’s R.A.S.H. crew — Red and Anarchist Skinheads — who drove around in a van styled after the A-Team van, stocked filled with implements for beating down racists skins. Dan the Bread Truck Driver was once written up in something of a sexual scene report by one-time hookup Amy Sohn. Mostly I remember him lifting my up by my ankles when I was a teenager at a Distraught party in early-gentrification Williamsburg. Allegedly this was to demonstrate that I was his bro.