On a recent afternoon at 3 Dollar Bill in East Williamsburg, a group of performers brainstormed ways to involve the audience in their upcoming site-specific…
BK Wildlife Summer Festival Is the Labor Day Bash You Won’t Want To Miss
The Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival returns this Friday for a triumphant sixth year. The festival, which according to Brooklyn Wildlife founder Christopher Carr, is the…
Surrealist Artist Dom Dirtee Thinks Both Sides Are Drinking the Kool-Aid
It was a boiling-hot day in Brooklyn when I strolled by a dull gray electrical box and glimpsed vivid shades of red, purple and blue. The square…
Lovehoney Believes Sleazy Blues Rock Can Take Over the World
Lovehoney is here to make you care about rock and roll again, and they’re doing a pretty damn good job of it. Band members—vocalist Alysia…
Get Your Summer Reading (or Flirting) On With These 9 Book Talks
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America Thursday, August 2 at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Darnell Moore,…
Yoke Lore On Bedding Folk With Pop, and Getting Love From Taylor Swift
As Adrian Galvin sprawls his legs on a wooden bench in the Think Coffee shop on Bowery, the 28-year-old who performs as Yoke Lore tells me something…
The Brooding Long Goodbye Brings the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival to a Close
The trailer for Long Goodbye opens with a straight shot of a woman with shoulder-length hair and a jean jacket walking briskly away from the…
And Lucky’s Dreamy New Video Takes You Underwater
While it’s not exactly a trip to the beach, the premiere music video from Brooklyn-based indie dream pop band And Lucky serves up a quaint…
What to Watch at the Greenpoint Film Festival This Weekend
The Tribeca Film Festival may be over, but another homegrown flicks fest is just beginning. The 7th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival will take over North Brooklyn this weekend, with four…
Parquet Courts Drops Another New Orleans-Set Video, ‘Mardi Gras Beads’
Funny that we recently mentioned “Range Life” after noting that Parquet Courts is the closest thing we’ll get to a new Pavement album. Today, Parquet…