While we’re on the subject of CBGB, here’s a heads up: Marky Ramone, who replaced the late Tommy Ramone as the band’s drummer in 1978…
Here’s Your Chance to Lean On the Original CBGB Bar
Last week we were psyched to discover that YouTube had teamed up with CBGB to import original elements of the club (the cash register, parts…
Photos: Everyone Had a Ball at the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
While half of Brooklyn packed into Dumbo’s Festival of Light over the weekend, the lasers were beaming over in Williamsburg as well, as the Brooklyn…
CBGB’s Walls, Cash Register, and Phone Booth Revived For New YouTube Space
When YouTube opened one of its public production facilities in Los Angeles, the head of the project cited CBGBs as the sort of community hub they…
BrooklynXchange Ain’t Happening, But BK Vendors Galore in Union Square
Despite going to the trouble of making a super Brooklyn-y promo video, the market that had hoped to bring Brooklyn makers to Soho during the holiday…
‘John’s of 12th Street’ Portrays Restaurant Life Sans Gordon Ramsay Hissy Fits
Last month during a taping of Knight Fight at The Gorbals, chef Ilan Hall faced off against Northern Spy Food Co.’s Pete Lipson. In the dining…
Ridgewood Successfully Trolled By New York Times
Oops, the Times did it again: nearly three years after it first noted that Ridgewood, Queens was “attracting a different type of émigré: artists priced out…
This Year, Order Your Tree Online and Pick It Up at This ‘Pop-Up Farm’
With the Rockefeller Center tree officially on its way to the Big Apple, it’s time to order your Christmas tree online. Yep, online. Brooklyn Pine,…
An Artsy Dot-Com Joins Livestream On 3rd Ward’s Old Block
The once dark and desolate area around the former 3rd Ward building is brightening up. Months after Livestream Public moved into 195 Morgan Avenue in…
L Riders Are Defacing and Defaming Lena Dunham (Again)
Thought right-wing bloggers were the only ones slagging on Lena Dunham? Doodles on her subway ads say otherwise. “Writers like this make empty a reality,”…