During this week’s A Thirsty Thursday at Videology, you’re going to party like it’s 1999 with a NYC classic of sorts, Cruel Intentions. No, you can’t just sit and watch the movie and sip at your own leisure: this is a Cruel Intentions drinking game, and you’re going to play by the rules, which means drinking Long Island Iced Teas out of a complimentary Krazy Straw.
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Ginsberg’s and Mingus’s Old Places Are Up For Grabs
(Photo courtesy of the Corcoran Group.)
In this week’s issue of New York magazine, yours truly blabbers on about living in Allen Ginsberg’s old place on East 12th Street. What isn’t mentioned is that the apartment is now up for rent. This Craiglist ad touting a one-bedroom at 437 East 12th Street doesn’t say anything about the pad’s history, but we’ll let you in on the secret: this used to be Ginsberg’s living room and bedroom, and it can now be yours. Why are we leaving the place even as the bard’s favorite noodle shop returns to the neighborhood? Well, all of that is explained here.
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At the Brooklyn Book Festival We Learned That Publishers Need to Be More Like DJs
Who knows where he got his facts from when Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz claimed that “most Pulitzer winners, great writers and magazine editors live in Brooklyn,” but it certainly seemed that way yesterday as the literati converged at Borough Hall for the eighth annual Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Watch Rostarr’s New Mural Go Up at the B+B Newsroom
Last time you saw Romon Kimin Yang, better known as Rostarr, he was 20 feet off the ground, swaddling Music Hall of Williamsburg in his signature “Graphysics” for Absolut’s Open Canvas Initiative. Or maybe you’ve seen his smaller ink and acrylic paintings hanging alongside Basquiat, Haring, Scharf, and Pollock in the “Calligrafitti: 1984-2001” exhibit at the Leila Heller Gallery (on display through October 5). Either way, if you’re familiar with the Brooklyn artist you know exactly why we wanted him to paint our Newsroom in Williamsburg. In the video above, he talks about the concept of intersection, which lies at the heart of his work and at the heart of ours.
Come by and see the wall for yourself. We’ll be working out of the Newsroom — at 155 Grand Street, off of Bedford Avenue — weekdays through October. Our first event, on Tuesday at 7 p.m., is a screening of Captured hosted by the film’s subject, Lower East Side documentarian Clayton Patterson.
Joe Strummer Returns to EV; Bushwick Fashion Weekend Begins
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Submit your questions for a debate between Daniel Squadron and Letitia James on Tuesday, and do your part to help settle the Public Advocate runoff election. [Gothamist]
A tenement building on Eldridge Street sold for $8.5 million; the building purportedly has commercial space and apartments that range from $4,700 to $14,500 per month. [The Lo-Down]
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There’ll Be a Whole Lotta Soul at Williamsburg Park Tonight
Between the fifth anniversary of Captured Tracks and the upcoming Mexican Summer blowout, North Brooklyn’s record labels have been pumping out a dizzying array of live music lately. Most of it, naturally, has been in the indie rock arena, but Afro-soul fans will have their moment tonight when Bushwick-based label Daptone Records, which makes its home in an actual home on Troutman Street, puts on a free show at Williamsburg Park.
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Watts and Gaffigan, But No Acid-Laced Gummy Bears at Bell House Last Night
(Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz)
As audience members filed into the Heart of Darkness variety show at the Bell House last night, they were handed a vegan gummy bear stuffed in a cocaine baggy, and told that one of the sugary snacks was laced with acid.
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Don’t Miss These Blockbuster Block Parties Tomorrow
The East 9th Street block party. (Photo: Jacob Sugarman)
Who said there’s no outdoor fun to be had after Labor Day weekend? Now that the city’s beaches are closed it’s time to keep the fun in the sun hyperlocal by passing through these awesome block parties.
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This New Shop Will Give Your Apartment That ‘California Meets Brooklyn Vibe’
Sure, your jeans are vintage, your shirt is locally made with a custom print, but what is your living room wearing?
At their new home design shop, Brick + Mortar, Ali Arain and Greg Coccaro want to sharpen your apartment’s style. “Accessories are the jewelry for your home,” says Coccaro. So go ahead and splurge on a pillow made by a Brooklyn designer.
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There Are Many Sides to Olga Bell of Dirty Projectors, Playing Solo at BAM Tonight
Olga Bell both disrobed and dressed up for her latest music video, released Thursday from one of her experimental side projects, “nothankyou.” The Williamsburg (via Russia and Alaska) singer-songwriter appears first in the video as a bare-chested brunette, then as a demure version of herself in glasses, and finally in a blond wig. At the end, all three characters stand side by side, and it’s clear they’re all Bell.
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