Image via Urban Daddy Berry Park has been in the making for months now and according to a post on Urban Daddy, this Friday was suppose to be the big day. I just called, however, and the grand opening has been moved to the 17th. Woo is me. With 15 (!!) beers on tap, “beer-infused […]
Stages
Brooklyn kiddos collectively filmed, cut and produced a film about smaller Brooklyn kiddos: In New York City’s changing Lower East Side, a group of older Puerto Rican women are brought together with a group of inner city youths to create an original play from the stories of their lives. Over a twenty-week period, the participants […]
Polish Neighbors
Metropolitan Ave between Bedford and Berry
MoMA MoMA MoMA!
MoMA has one of my favorite websites; it’s pretty, has intuitive interface and lots of fun flash. So I was not surprised in the least to find they would have an interactive visit planner that has such lovely design. The planner logs into your facebook, asks a couple of questions and then plans a full […]
The Love Show
20 artists presenting their take on what love is via oil, acrylic, wood, photography, video, among other mediums. Love for me is not leaving the neighborhood to check out art. My favorite DJs, Knight and Gale (although Florence is missing?) are taking care of the set so the soundtrack will hopefully augment the night of […]
Dave Egger's enviable multitasking abilities
Apparently, Dave Eggers isn’t busy enough writing the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are, Away We Go, being the founder of McSweeney’s and heading up the nonprofit 826 because his new book Zeitoun comes out today. Dave Eggers spent two years interviewing and researching Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-American who was arrested when he went […]
Happy Bastille Day!
Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear fame brought to my attention (via his twitter) that Camera Obscura is giving away their new lovely single, French Navy, in honor of Bastille Day. Hurray! The music video is pretty much amazing too, in a, why-am-I-not-in-love-with-a-beautiful-boy-traveling-all-over-Europe-like-these-assholes, kind of way. Song is here.
Dumpster Diving (literally)
Image via MACROSEA ‚”We heard about dumpster pools—one was done by Curtis Crowe of the band Pylon in Athens, Georgia a few years ago, and others have done it, but usually smaller—and decided we wanted to do it this summer in Brooklyn as a test site/prototype. We (David Belt, Alix Feinkind, and myself, who are […]
Hey you!
Get off the internets and go do your American duty of spending money and roasting in the sun on this July 4th at Williamsburg Walks. Bedford between N4 and n9 are a pedestrian mall with seating, tables, vendors and all sorts of fun things. It’s going on right now and patriotic as ever.
Howlies
This took a few listens (and views) to grow on me, but now it will be making its way onto a rooftop party playlist sometime soon. Download the song (for free!) here. According to their Myspace, they will be here August 15th, but it doesn’t look like they have a place to play figured out. […]