This week's East Village Boy of the Week is José, from Mexico City
Photographed for EVB by Greg Reynolds

New York's Central Park is a bucolic refuge, a relief from the noise of the city's traffic and a release from the crush of its citizenry. During the North American summer it is an island of green rising from a heated and steaming sea of concrete, glass and steel.  I want to show the beauty and the sexual tension that rises like steam during the dog days by accompanying José on an afternoon stroll in the park. - Greg Reynolds

There are people in our lives whom we think of often with great respect, admiration and love. We call them our friend, our lover, our partner, our husband or wife, our sister or brother, neighbor or acquaintance. But then, if you are lucky, you may know someone whom you can not define. They, in themselves, are the definition without a word or term.

For the the fifth monthly Salon I host at my studio, or in this case six flights up on my rooftop garden, I invited that very person in my life to share a bit of energy, light and song for us all to experience. Justin Bond showered us with a performance that only he could and a friendly reminder of what it means to be a New Yorker.

With love and thanks to Justin Bond and Nath Ann Carrera for a warm August night under the stars which I will never forget. - Matthu Placek

Photography for EVB by David Kimelman

It's that time of year when wearing combat boots, ski-goggles and pointing a laser at someone doesn't mean you're surrounded by testosterone bros at an urban paintball game (although that's hot!), it means your surrounded by dusty, crusty ravers and cosmic queens from all corners of the globe at Burning Man.

Now that I've been promoted to Editors' Assistant and I'm not not simply 'the Dick' I've earned the right to join the annual EVB migration across the desert to celebrate spending no money and ditching the skinny jeans for proto-industrial Mad Max outfits. Yikes!

Come join our crew of dusty, scantily clad boys and celebrate 25 years of desert shenanigans at the East Village Boys soundsystem and laser show (not quite Jean Michel Jarre, but hey!) It's going to be seven days and nights of chroming laser love! Find us around 9.30 and Genome.

Here's a taste of what we'll be listening to as the short bus makes its way to Black Rock City. No doubt I'll have to climb atop and do a Priscilla turn - an interns work is never done. - Love Dick

Driving To Black Rock City Mix - Dick William [download]

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Third Stone From The Sun - Jimi Hendrix / It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube / Better Dub Better - Hard-Fi / Anti-American Graffiti - J Dilla / Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend cover) - Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel / Odessa (Junior Boys Remix) - Caribou / Why - Carly Simon / Late Night Tales - Lindstrøm / A Town Called Malice - The Jam / In Between Days - The Cure / It's Better Than Good Time (Walter Gibbons 12" Mix) - Gladys Knight / Diamonds (Todd Terje Dub Remix) - Paul Simon / Sound of da Police - KRS-One / Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys /  Wild Boys - Duran Duran / Invert (Parce Que Edit) - Discodeine / Plastic Dreams - Jaydee / Stella - Jam & Spoon