As is JJ Brine’s way, he’s hesitant to speak about the past. Even the very recent past, when Brine– Satanic gallerist, practitioner of “Post-human” art, founder…
A Safe Space to Swap VHS Tapes, Share Banana Spit, and Get Brunch-Level Ripped
Some of us have the distinct memory of weaving up and down the aisles of Kim’s Video– or really, any old-school place of a similar disposition…
New, Upscale ‘Industrial Arts Complex’ for Bushwick Artists in Search of ‘Dynamic’ Spaces
We’ve known about the impending “injection of luxury” slated for Bushwick– the three- and four-story types have been popping up for a while now, and emerging…
Get on Level with Retrofuturism at Low-Level, a Festival Celebrating the Digital Age
If watching this dub-step blasting, Benzedrine-fueled trailer moves you toward a migraine, you might assume that you’re too old for Low-Level Festival. I mean, isn’t this the sort…
Performance Picks: Beds Not Chairs + Silent and/or Messy Laughs
WEDNESDAY Blind Crest August 17, 7 pm at Judson Memorial Church: FREE Judson Arts Wednesdays, a series of free music, dance, and theatrical-readings twice a month,…
In HIKEA, is Particleboard the Enemy of Psychedelics and Marxist Revolution?
The way I’ve always understood them, psychedelics are much more than extremely potent drugs– far from being toys for recreational escapism, they’re actually a means of temporarily nullifying…
Four Readings: Alt-Comedy Collective to Tear Up the Strand + Actor Winos, Winot?
TUESDAY Hyperallergic IRL 2 August 16, 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, The super stylish Hyperallergic, the online magazine for all your arts-and-culture-related thinkpiece…
Kristin Dombek on to How to Write a Book About Narcissists Without Becoming One
Kristin Dombek’s legendary essay “How to Quit,” published in the winter 2013 edition of n+1, garnered heated word of mouth and praise from the likes of Brooklyn Magazine’s…
Masks Not Mascs at the Femmequerade Ball, a Party to Cure ‘Toxic Masculinity’
Dozens of women and femmes will descend upon the Good Room in Greenpoint this Thursday to party until that oppressive cis-white-male toxic-masculinity is done for. Or at…
Fire Hydrants Flowin’, Vegan Feasts, Beating that Heat: Last Weekend on Insta
Soaring temperatures, brunch plans, hangovers of various kinds, cute outfits, and sundry pictures of food and iced beverages: if you had an awesome weekend but…