A Massive Oktoberfest Is Coming to the Historic Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse

Posted on by Daniel Maurer

…60 German beers from Reinheits Boten , a family of independent German craft breweries that was brought here in December by Williamsburg-based importer Liquid Projects. … … …includes a free liter of beer and live music from acts like the Heimatklange Band, who you may have seen at the 80th birthday celebration of Ridgewood’s Gottscheer Hall, and the Bratwurst Boys, who do polka renditions of songs by Elton John, Daft Punk, and…
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Notorious East Village Landlord Uses Street Art to Paint a Prettier Picture

Posted on by Nicole Disser

…Icon owned building, a friend and working musician moved back to Haiti, where he was… … … undeniably fitting of eccentric Coney Island’s hallucinatory landscape, the ongoing summertime street … neighborhood into a mini Las Vegas by way of a $1 billion makeover. … “I’m personally affected by this kind of stuff– I have an apartment and a studio [in Williamsburg] and everything around me is getting knocked down…
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Hidden in a Brooklyn Couple’s Home, a Literal Karaoke Den

Posted on by Amanda Feinman

…Soler-Williams and Roberto Williams welcomed me into their East Williamsburg apartment, which is also their place of business. … …along the street back in the early 2000s, when this now-prime part of Brooklyn was neglected by city hall). … …first glance, much more like the owners of a building than the musical facilitators of drunk bachelorette parties—of course, over the years, they’ve served as both.
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Thurston Moore Cracks Open Stereo Sanctity: Lyrics & Poems Tonight

Posted on by Daniel Maurer

Hot on the heels of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band, Thurston Moore has released a book of his own, and he’ll be at Rough Trade in Williamsburg tonight to talk about it. … Nico and Lou Reed (their music “walked the line of savagery and love, decadence and purposeful cornballism”), … Tom Verlaine (“stunning evocation where the valleys of the city are under the spell of gas hallucinogens”),
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