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The Williamsburg Brooklyn-based culture guide to New York and beyond.

Win Tickets to See San Holo @ The Brooklyn Mirage

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Every once in a while, there’s an artist who changes the game. Recently, that person was electronic music virtuoso, San Holo. He blew us away with his production, ‘Light’, which has since be remixed and mashed up 100 times over by names like Nitti Gritti, Loosid, Sonny Fedora, Eastghost and the list goes on. Then […]

Chris Kazimi brings ‘Easy Listening Comedy’ to Bushwick

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Chris Kazimi as he welcomes the audience Good drinks, great company, and most importantly: free laughs. Every Thursday night starting at 9pm, Bushwick’s Bodeguita has it all, as the neighborhood bar has become the official venue for Chris Kazimi’s Easy Listening Comedy show. What started out as an open mic grew quickly into a scheduled […]

Dystopian Oscar Wilde-themed musical coming to Bushwick

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A Dystopian immersive musical about Oscar Wilde! Well that sounds like a lot of fun. Check out OSCAR at The Crown at 3 Dollar Bill in Bushwick beginning May 11. An immersive nightclub musical about Oscar Wilde, which ran for three sold-out weeks earlier this year, will return this weekend to start an open-ended run. […]

CONTEST: Win 2 Tickets to Kaskade at The Brooklyn Mirage

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Nothing says summer like cold margaritas, fire beats and open air parties. Very soon, you’ll be able to find all three of these amazing things at The Brooklyn Mirage, Bushwick’s multi-million dollar outdoor club. The jaw dropping venue is coming out the gates with some stellar headlining acts, among them EDM/electro superstar, Kaskade.

This One Goes to Eleven: Weekly metal roundup

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Apologies in advance for the impending sportiness of this section over the next few months. I have my 30th birthday, several weddings, a bunch of work stuff, and a cross-country studio trip for my band all on the ol’ Google calendar. But when I’m here, I’ll do my best to spit up one of these, […]

The “partial shutdown” of the L will suck, but these chill MTA videos will ease your mind

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Actually they REALLY won’t since the changes “may entail waiting 40 minutes for an L train.” The MTA is warning that there will be long waits and trains too crowded to board at “certain times.” And don’t even get us started on the bus situation on 14th Street — critics of the plans worry that they will crawl […]

MTA releases new subway map to detail the L train’s ‘partial shutdown’ plan

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The delays have already begun, but now the MTA has a detailed map that outlines what to expect from now through summer 2020: With the revised approach, L customers will have normal service during the highest ridership times. Weeknights: 8 PM to 5 AM L trains run every 20 minutes between Brooklyn and Manhattan and […]

Couple hope to transform Bushwick’s Secret Project Robot into an indie Barcade

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Indie game maker Mark Kleback and his fiance Stephanie Gross are hoping to purchase Secret Project Robot and open an arcade bar dedicated to Brooklyn’s underground gaming scene. The pair started a Kickstarter to help fund the project, which they’ll call Wonderville. Brooklyn Paper has more A pair of local video-game fanatics plan to purchase artsy Bushwick […]

Citibike is finally coming to Bushwick this month

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It’s a little insane that this hasn’t already happened, but on April 27 Citibike is FINALLY coming to Bushwick. Though particulars are still under wraps, DOT will be adding 19 new dock stations along the L, with a majority of them coming to Bushwick! Plans have been in limbo ever since the L Train shutdown was cancelled, but […]