(Wonderwolf’s Facebook)
After this Friday, Williamsburg’s hip parents will have to look elsewhere for boutique, European baby shoes.
Wonderwolf, the children’s clothing and accessories store that always has the teepee out on Metropolitan Ave., is closing its doors for good on Feb. 28, according to an announcement on the store’s Facebook page.
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(Courtesy of OMP)
A grant from the Polish government will insure that Greenpoint’s music scene isn’t just about getting “bangovers” from bands like Mutilation Rites and Black Anvil.
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(Courtesy of Tyler Ashley)
Soft porn, bedazzled power tools, and a clothing swap — Strange Loop Gallery will have it all this Saturday evening!
Performance artist Tyler Ashley is doing what he assures us will be a “very rigorous, boot camp”-style nude performance using sculptures he created with power tools. And if that doesn’t grab your attention, soft porn videos featuring Ashley with the tools will also play during the event.
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Time now for one of our occasional updates on the state of B+B’s home base, the ever buzzing Cooper Square.
(Photo: Amanda Waldroupe)
Nearly two months after Cooper Union students let 2,100 ping pong balls cascade down the school’s four-story Grand Stair, a handful of those involved received a whacking long in the making.
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(Courtesy Cause B Show.)
If there’s dialogue at a comedy show, it’s usually between comic and heckler, and it usually ain’t pretty. Think Michael Richards meltdown or Dave Chappelle standoff. But The Cause B Show (get it? Cosby show?) aims to spark a more productive variety of conversation – about issues that are important to North Brooklyn. And that doesn’t mean the stache style du jour.
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(Courtesy Fuchs Projects)
Like to grouse about your landlord? Why not do it over Kosher rugelach at an upcoming art opening?
Later this month at his Bushwick gallery, Rafael Fuchs will show new work “based on true stories” about North Brooklyn’s Jewish landlords. For the appropriately titled “LandLords” series, the artist digitally manipulated photographs he had taken of landlords — wearing Shabbat fur hats and following after their children, among other things — by adding imagery, writing, and portions of other photographs. One print features a naked woman with an airplane about to fly into her ass, with a couple landlords in traditional Hasidic garb in the background.
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