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Community Board 4 voted to recommend rezoning for development on the former Rheingold Brewery site behind closed doors. [Bushwick Daily]
Here’s the latest on Jules de Balincourt’s to outsmart the prohibitively expensive local real estate market: he and 75 other Bushwick-based artists may secure lucrative work spaces with pooled funds. [WSJ]
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Our love for Chances With Wolves is such that we’ve traveled into the putrid bowels of the earth to boogie down with them. Luckily we won’t have to do that tomorrow, as the East Village Radio DJs are posting up at a much finer location — the new beer garden at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club. From 7 p.m. onward, they’ll be joined by the High and Mighty Brass Band and DJ Stylus for a party so absolutely right we just had to mention it separate from our end-of-summer guide.
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You may have noticed something, erm, unusual in the window of the gallery/store/performance space hybrid that recently opened next to A Repeat Performance. The small storefront at First Ave., near East Ninth, now sports a giant “cat sarcophagus”: a life-sized papier-mâché monster whose multi-colored three-eyed visage looks rather like what might happen if Picasso and Dr. Seuss came together to teach a high-school art class.
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Alan Del Rio Ortiz painted by Caris Reid.
What do Florence and the Machine, St. Vincent, Smith Westerns, Drowners, and Spector have in common? Alan Del Rio Ortiz has directed videos for all of them. (Also, they are all insanely talented.)
You probably saw the clip of Solange performing at a laundromat near Barclays Center earlier this week. Yep, Del Rio Ortiz shot that one too. While the 30-year-old filmmaker specializes in music videos, his portfolio also includes live concerts, tour videos, a documentary special on Blood Orange, and several short film collaborations with Slutever’s Karley Sciortino. He’s spending his summer shooting a series of live performances (including the Solange one) as part of the Uncapped series for Vitaminwater/The Fader.
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SMITHE at work at Vandervoort Place (Photo: Paula Villanueva for All City Canvas)
Today, a Mexico City artist will complete a 200-foot-long mural on a Bushwick wall that had previously been covered with work by JR and Jim Avignon.
SMITHEÂ started the epic piece Monday of last week, but the story of the wall goes back to 2007, when Ali Ha opened Factory Fresh, a gallery focusing on urban art, just around the corner from a derelict alley.
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Depreciation Guild’s Facebook.
Since October of 2011, Andy Simmons and Holly MacGibbon have been making dark, beautiful pop rock together as Weeknight. After a busy summer of finishing up a forthcoming debut album and touring the U.S. with Montreal shoegaze-pop outfit Valleys, the burgeoning Bushwick duo spoke to us ahead of their show at 285 Kent tonight, where they’ll be sharing the bill with another Montreal-based act, Blue Hawaii.
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At the King & Grove. (Photo: Joshua Kristal)
At this point in the summer, the beach days and ice cream cones are interspersed with back-to-school ads and blazers in every shop window. It all starts funneling in towards Labor Day’s chilly event horizon. Herewith, your guide to wringing the most out of your remaining Dog Day weekends.
Summerscreen last night. (Photo: Reeve Jolliffe)
The New Museum sends over a press release announcing plans to put two 36-foot-tall mini skyscrapers on its roof and a 30-foot double-ended vessel on its façade as part of a new exhibit featuring the art of Chris Burden. [New Museum]
Sun Noodle will sell one of Keizo Shimamoto’s awe-inspiring Ramen Burgers to the first 100 customers at Smorgasburg on Saturday. [Gothamist]
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