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

The Brooklyn Barge is open for the summer

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Your favorite outdoor drinking spot is set to open this week. Wednesday May 1 to be exact (weather permitting). With Greenpoint Ale and Northern Territory both closed, we’re delighted that the Barge bar remains open. It looks like opening day may be a bit of a washout, but the weekend looks more promising. The Brooklyn […]

Two new bars have opened in Greenpoint: Sama Street and Magazine

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Two new bars have opened close to the Greenpoint Ave. G stop in Greenpoint. Sama Street is a new cocktail bar on Manhattan Ave. with small plates. More from Greenpoint Post: A new Asian-inspired cocktail lounge opened last week on Manhattan Avenue. Sama Street, located at 988 Manhattan Ave. in north Greenpoint, is the brainchild […]

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 […]

GovBallNYC Announces After Dark Shows

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No sun? Still fun. Or at least the organizers over at The Governors Ball Music & Arts Festival seem to think so. In what has become an annual tradition, GovBallNYC has announced another stacked “After Dark” series, for festival goers who want to keep the party going long after the last headlining guitar strums fall […]

This One Goes to Eleven: Weekly metal roundup

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Across the world, people are worshipping a zombie prophet and mourning the ashes of humanity’s most famous cathedral. Needless to say, it’s been a pretty metal week in our neck of the multiverse, so stop by and check it out.

Record Store Day 2019 in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick

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Vinyl nerds get ready. Saturday is Record Store Day. As Chris mentioned already, the biggest events are at Rough Trade: Performances by: Steve Gunn, Cochemea (The Dap Kings), TEEN, Elijah Wolf, Pearl Charles, and Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed DJ Sets by (Presented by Talkhouse): Charly Bliss, Chris Cohen, Sad 13 (Speedy Ortiz), Madison McFerrin, Ian Williams […]