Black Seed has already earned a following for its unique bagels that borrow traits from both traditional New York and Montreal methods; still, it’s got…
Bike Lane Tension in Williamsburg; Will Ferrell-Themed Bar in LES
Between 2004 and 2014, the average Williamsburg home price climbed by 269 percent. [The Real Deal via Free Williamsburg] Tensions are climbing over a proposed…
Is It Still ‘Chamber’ Music If It’s in a Space-Age Geodesic Dome?
If you aren’t hanging out in geodesic domes, well then you aren’t living life to the Fuller-ist. Rest assured you don’t have to head upstate and…
The Hum Is a Weekly Gathering of Musicians Who Just Happen to Be Women
Nothing beats a blue Monday quite like a musical genre-bender, feminism and a cozy Greenpoint piano bar. Look no further than The Hum, a residency…
Toast Diamond Dave at Rothtoberfest, Attend a Felabration For Fela Kuti
For he’s a jolly good Fela, and so is David Lee Roth. This Saturday, celebrate the legendary frontmen and bon vivants at these two fests.…
Patti Smith Did an Impromptu Reading of ‘Howl’ On Its 60th Anniversary
The Barnes & Noble at Union Square was packed to the gills last night, with a line already forming on 17th Street long before Patti Smith…
Week in Film: Japanese Horror Cats Hungry for Human and Paranoid Rural Stock Schemes
It’s as good a week as any to catch some films and with one of our besties going outta commission soon (temporarily, thankfully) we’re encouraging…
Rectory of Horrors in Greenpoint; Williamsburg Giglio Feast Redux
A man was arrested this weekend for stealing $15 worth of Domino sugar from the Yeshiva Ahavas Israel, a Williamsburg synagogue. [DNA Info] On the Lower…
Filmmaker’s ’70s Outlaw Culture’ Past Inspired Her Ode to Century-Old Les Vampires
This October marks the 100th anniversary of Les Vampires, a silent film–surprisingly surreal for its era and rife with gothic imagery– that stars Musidora as Irma Vep, France’s…
Greenpointers, Hold Your Nose Up High and Learn About Your Hood’s Polluted Past
Just a few days after CUNY social journalism fellow Aaron Smith launched his blog “The Brooklyn Memory Project” with an unsettling video of a retired…