Meanwhile, over in Brooklyn (we're I reside), Reptar is visiting from Athens, Georgia and playing DIY, all ages venue Shea Stadium with Fort Lean, Tony Victories, and Casual Curious. Other highlights this week [...] »
Brooklyn band Motive have been playing around town for quite some time now, opening up for larger names like The Vaccines and Bear Hands. After releasing their self-titled debut EP last year, they're kicking off 2012 [...] »
The vantage point in a “View From Brooklyn,” painted by George Copeland Ault in 1927, looks like Brooklyn Heights or Red Hook. Or is it farther up the East River, from Williamsburg or Greenpoint? “A precisionist and surrealist painter, especially noted... »
As the Billyburg/Bushwick/Greenpoint underground overloads itself with crude art-noize slop, the clean-cut, pop-obsessive whizzes in the Red Hook-based Hospitality are quite the welcome anomaly »
What’s good Wednesday? How about the honor of premiering a brand new video from BK’s Madam Trashy? We’ll take it. So, sit back and enjoy, and after…please delight yourself in an interview with the gentleman of Madam Trashy and Director, Brian Walsh. Wh... »
Judge a connection by its cover. Illustration by Sophie Blackall. We’re all well acquainted with Craigslist Missed Connections, but how many of us actually check them? Or expect to see our lost mate in person again? This is especially true on the subwa... »
Guest burlesquist Dottie Dynamo. Photo by Christopher Butt. When it comes to going to bars, we’ve all killed off a few brain cells — so why not add a some as well? Say hello to the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies, a new Brooklyn experime... »
How bike share gets built. [WNYC] New York is not as segregated as many cities, or as much as you thought. [Journal] Williamsburg site sells for 50 percent profit in just three years. [Crain's] Inside Daphne Guiness' batshit Park Avenue condo—look at a... »
