JLA Studios
63 Pearl St
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Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
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Thursday Aug 27, 2009 (7:30pm)
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Learn more about the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck (and other sweetmobiles) on Flavorwire.
This monthly series furnishes the soapbox for those with rare experiences to share. Tonight's provocative trio of orators focuses on community and the American Dream. Don Quint and Salvatore "Buddy" Scotto reach it through polar trades: the former traffics ice cream and sui generis toppings (i.e. ginger cookies, curried coconut) from his Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, while the latter operates the Scotto Funeral Home and doubles as the "unofficial mayor" of Carroll Gardens. Harvey Wang, who lensed the eye-opening photojournal Flophouse: Life on the Bowery, relates tales from downtown's last skid row, where nearly 100,000 took refuge from the late 19th- to the mid 20th- century — alien, drug-abusing, and luckless fellows who woke from the dream to find themselves unsung and destitute.
