Tonight, some of Deborah Brown’s bright, surreal, almost abstract paintings — inspired by the Bushwick landscape — will be featured in the opening of a…
Wheeee! Milk and Pull Brings More Coffee to Bushwick
So many coffee spots are opening in Bushwick, it’s getting hard to keep track. We were so excited about AP Coffee and then Strangeways that…
Inside Lake Street, the New Bar From Members of The Hold Steady, Spoon
When we first brought word that rockers Bobby Drake (The Hold Steady, w/o.), Frank Bevan (w/o.), Rob Pope (Spoon), Eric Odness (The Wanted, Primitive Weapons) were…
Titus Andronicus Sells Singing Telegrams, ‘Biggest Block Party in East Williamsburg’
For $50, Patrick Stickles, front-man of the Brooklyn-based rock outfit Titus Andronicus, will deliver a singing telegram right to your door. [The L] The real-estate…
‘Bowery Boys’ Reimagines the Really Bad, Really Old Days of the Lower East Side
Crooked political machines, race-tinged violence, rampant disease, and a gross disparity of wealth: just another day in Five Points in 1853. “Bowery Boys,” a new…
Bushwick Is Burning: Underground Trap Raves Keep It Weird
It’s 3 a.m. at Passion Lounge, the heavily mirrored club on Broadway previously known as Angels, and the roving underground party known as Ultra Velvet…
Jorge Elbrecht of Lansing-Dreiden and Violens On His 7″ With Ariel Pink, Out Today
Jorge Elbrecht’s introduction to the music industry came in the early 2000s with the success of his band/art collective, Lansing-Dreiden, which reissued its entire catalog…
The 40-Year-Old Hipster Goes to a Rave
Tom Lombardi has returned to his stomping grounds of Williamsburg after several years away. The wife and I ride the elevator thirty-something floors up the…
Takeru Kobayashi Is in Bryant Park Right Now, Grilling Hot Dogs
Speaking of iconic gurgitators who were conspicuously absent from this year’s hot-dog eating contest, Takeru Kobayashi wasn’t at Coney this year, but he did down…
Free Soul Cycling in Williamsburg, Spanish Poet Reborn in Bushwick
Soul Cycle NYC has launched Williamsburg Local Rides, in which neighborhood residents can take a class for free every Wednesday this summer. [Bedford + Bowery]…