From Brokelyn:
The DFA Holiday Party is back at the Glasslands (289 Kent Ave) to rock your holiday socks off on Saturday, December 7 at 11:30pm.
Featuring a whole lot of guest DJs including Sinkane and The Juan MacLean, you’re pretty much guaranteed a ridiculously fun night of holiday cheer, dancing and general industrial debauchery. The only problem? Party tickets went on pre-sale last week and sold out within minutes. [Read more...]
From Stereogum:
Lana Del Rey’s new 27-minute short film Tropico works, more or less, as a glossy but bugged-out extended-length music video, a pretentious but sensationalistic dive into her center-free aesthetic. As directed by music-video veteran fantasist Anthony Mandler, LDR and male model Shaun Ross appear in a few very loosely connected vignettes. In the “Body Electric” segment, they’re in a dreamy Garden Of Eden amidst various icons: Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Jesus. The “Gods & Monsters” part takes place in a fever-dream vision of an L.A. gang-world. And for “Bel Air,” they dance through some idealized vision of the American countryside. The whole time, there’s a lot of zoned-out voice-over, including a bit where LDR recites the famous opening of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl over a strippers-and-guns montage. Be advised that the whole thing is mildly NSFW for stripper-related reasons. Watch the early leaked version of it below; it drops officially later this morning.
Watch it below: [Read more...]
If you can’t make it, but care about this issue, please email City Council. More information here.
Here’s the scoop on the hearing via Greenpointers:
The last of the public meetings will take place Thursday, December 5th, 2013 and this is your last chance to do something.
Location: 250 Broadway Committee Room 16th Floor
Time for Commercial Street meeting: 9:30 am
Time for Greenpoint Landing meeting: 1:00 pm
Greenpointers also spoke with Kim Masson of savegreenpoint.org, who had this to say:
The last time I met with Councilman Levin he made it clear that Greenpoint residents need to step up and speak out at the Council Hearing. If we bombard them with speakers, then we have a swinging chance. Unfortunately we’ve seen a lot of voices speaking in favor of affordable housing and not enough speaking out against toxicity. So if you care about your health and your kid’s health, I urge everyone come out Dec 5th and prove to the city you don’t approve of these projects. People may also contact all the voting members by email and phone calls. We’ve provided a sample letter on our website which people may use to get their message across. But as our Councilman Steve Levin said, it is important we have bodies at the hearing. At the last public hearing 19 speakers (mostly paid lawyers) spoke out in favor of the developments, and only 9 testified against. With the odds stacked against us, it is no wonder the City is green lighting these projects. We’ve got a David and Goliath situation here and for this meeting we’re going to need a lot more slingshots.
Masson had this to say about DeBlasio:
We’ve contacted Bill DeBlasio and he never got back to us. I’m not surprised considering he worked with the Toll Bros. Developers in Gowanus to fight against it’s Superfund designation. They were such good friends, the Toll Bros. even threw DeBlasio’s birthday fundraiser party for him! No wonder DeBlasio thought it was cool to place people on top of the most fetid toxic waterways in the country.
Depressing, so let him know on Twitter or contact his office. City council contact information is below: [Read more...]
Visual artist Stephen Mallon shot this time-lapse video of Rough Trade setting up shop in the new Williamsburg store. Watch [Read more...]
They set sail Fridays and Saturdays throughout December. Cruises begin in Greenpoint at the India Street Pier. From thewatertablenyc.com:
The Water Table brings the elements that Brooklynites and New Yorkers love about eating out: quality food and beverage in an intimate setting with a focus on hospitality. While cruising through the New York Harbor on our historic ship (one of only three vessels of it’s kind from World War II still in service) our customers will enjoy a New England based menu with craft beer, cocktails and wine. The Water Table is a place for locals to dine, relax and enjoy the city that they love.
Here’s the December menu: [Read more...]
Via DNA/Ms. Fitz
From the “oh, this is absolutely necessary” file:
A pack of local adventurers is planning to give Art Basel a taste of the Bushwick art scene with a pop-up rave this week — complete with “lots of trash on the floor,” organizers said.
In Bushwick Gone Basel,dozens of Brooklyn performers are packing up their art, instruments and party skills to ”descend upon the center of paradise” in South Beach for the prestigious arts fest.
“We’re creating a pop-up rave space that’s going to be like a party in Bushwick,” said event promoter and artist Ms. Fitz, who co-organized Bushwick Gone Basel with fellow artist Angelina Dreem, laughing that the party would include “lots of trash in the floor,” in true Bushwick style.
That noise? That’s the sound of a millions pairs of eyes glazing over, rolling back into heads and tongues dripping from mouths. But wait, there’s more. [Read more...]
Earlier this year real estate agent Stephanie Gribbon was fired from trendy Williamsburg brokerage Nooklyn, and now finds herself in the midst of a lawsuit from her former firm. From [Read more...]
Rooftop playground at CastleBraid apartments. Photo: Paul Martinka
Seems a group of Bushwick hipsters is angry that they’re getting pushed out by another group of elite hipsters with larger trustfunds. Oh the horror:
The hipsters who settled the Brooklyn neighborhood 10 years ago have declared war on rich kids flocking to new luxury digs on their parents’ dime.
CastleBraid, an upscale rental complex marketed for artists, was adorned last month with crime-scene tape reading “Occupy.”
The “perps’’ were first-generation hipsters calling themselves “Occupy Bushwick.” They say they are “in solidarity” with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
CastleBraid is stacked with amenities designed to appeal to the aspiring hipsters.
“It’s like Neverland over there,” fumed Angelina Dreem, 27, a yoga teacher who’s lived in Bushwick for four years and owns Body Actualized yoga studio across the street from the complex.
“It’s an adult children playground,” Dreem said. “They’re all, like, subsidized.” [Read more...]
The Guardian Angels posting signs about the “knockout game’
We’re not sure what to call it, since many believe that the so-called knock-out game is just an urban myth. That said, this sucks:
A Hasidic man walking along a Williamsburg street Sunday night became the latest victim of the ugly “knockout game,’’ in which innocent people are sucker-punched by strangers.
Many of the victims — there now have been more than 10 in the city — have been attacked in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods. [Read more...]
Bands have stopped naming themselves after wolves, but this wolf is still likely to to be a hit:
Videology is hosting a diplomatic summit of wild proportions on Dec. 7, when Atka, New Yord’s most well-traveled and even-tempered wolf ambassador, visits the Williamsburg bar-theater for a special screening of an arctic wolf-themed episode of the BBC’s “Frozen Planet” series.
“He’s the most professional beast, humans included, I’ve every worked with,” said Maggie Howell, executive director at the New York Wolf Conservation Center.
Atka — who, at 11-years-old, might be turning grey if not for his white, arctic coat — is, without a doubt, one handsome creature. But a wolf cannot survive on looks alone, and Howell said it is Atka’s calm demeanor and easy temper that makes him particularly well suited to working amongst humans.
In fact, Atka is probably the least wolf-like wolf Howell has ever seen in her eight years working at the conservation center….
Meet Atka and see “Frozen Planet” at Videology [308 Bedford Ave. between South First and South Second streets in Williamsburg, (718) 782–3468, www.videology.info] Dec. 7 at 2 pm, $25.
Information about Videology here.
