If Allen Ginsberg were still croaking around today, he would’ve just celebrated his 90th birthday. I can see it now– the old man and his expansive beard,…
Bushwick Arts Festival Didn’t Exactly Do Open Studios Like a BOS
For Luis Martin, the curator of a small gallery project inside East Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brush Studios called Paranthesis Art Space, this last weekend was the culmination…
Bushwick Artists, Get In on This Group Portrait of the ‘Very Magical’ Art Scene
A riddle: how do you get all the artists in Bushwick in the same place at the same time? Tell them that everyone is going to…
Enter This Fever-Dream Dance Melding Andy Warhol and Lana Del Rey
What’s it like to step into another person’s fever dream…if that person has been obsessed with Andy Warhol since childhood? That’s the premise behind Raja…
Short Film Captures the Lower East Side Before Essex Crossing Changes the Fabric
With the streets of the Lower East Side reshaping themselves faster than any of us can keep track, it’s easy to become a wistful piner for…
Get ‘Gentrifucked’ in Bushwick With Sunset Park ‘Boom Bap’ Hip-Hop Crew
Rising rents and changing neighborhoods got you down? Tonight head over to Bushwick’s main-squeeze community space, Mayday, for an art and music fest to commiserate…
The Gentrification Art Show That Inspires ‘Intentional Awkwardness’
In New York dingy, overpriced studio apartments manage to command bidding wars, while longtime city-dwellers with sweet rent-regulated deals have come to expect landlord harassment. Meanwhile, archaic affordable-housing…
Glenn Branca’s Guitar Orchestra Sorta Blew Out My Ear Drums, But I’m OK With It
There are few things in this world that make you feel more like a corporate lackey than sipping a free cocktail spiked with piss-colored (and…
Recipe Peep Show at Essex Street Market Reveals Your Neighbor’s Shopping Lists
When you’re out picking up groceries for the week, ever wonder what recipes the other shoppers have up their sleeves? If you shop at Trader…
Thrift, Browse, and Haggle Your Way Through ‘Question the Market’
The House of Yes has something of a problem with their shimmering, funky, newish venue in Bushwick– they have a surplus of space, which is…