The Brazilian-inspired Cozinha Latina opened this week in the former Red Star space inside the Pencil Factory building. We miss the wings at Red Star already! That said Cozinha Latina looks promising: Shanna Pacifico earned her nose-to-tail bona fides under Peter Hoffman at Savoy and Back Forty, where she butchered whole animals in the basement. […]
Kickstarter owner cofounding restaurant in Greenpoint
It’s right around the corner from their offices in Greenpoint and will serve French-Catalonian fare. Rucola, June, and Fitzcarraldo co-owner Henry Rich has been working on a Greenpoint restaurant for two years, and early this summer, the 100-seat space will finally open its doors on Franklin Street. Rich says he and his team are “trying […]
Kickstarter for a David Foster Wallace short film adaptation
Brooklyn filmmaker Francesco Marchione has launched a Kickstarter campaign to adapt David Foster Wallace’s short story OBLIVION as a 25-minute film. The story ostensibly centers around a marital conflict over snoring that results in sleep deprivation, hallucination, and ultimately revelation. Marchione acquired the rights to the 2004 story (from the collection OBLIVION: Stories) from the […]
Animal Collective's Own Amanda Palmer Kickstarter Scandal
Via Pitchfork If the recent Amanda Palmer controversy has accomplished anything — besides getting some people paid to play their instruments — it’s made music fans take a harder look at the ethics of crowd-sourced funding in artistic endeavors. One subject of the intensified scrutiny has been Animal Collective’s Josh Dibb, aka Deakin, who raised […]
Here's A Site Like Kickstarter, Minus The Worthwhile Projects
Last week we told you about a group using Kickstarter to help fund a major city art project. But if you want to give your hard earned dollar to simpler causes – like buying someone 50 lunches – then check out Indiegogo. The site seems to have blown up over night thanks to blogs jumping […]
For $1 Million Jay-Z, Devendra Banhardt, and Jeff Koons Will Paint NYC's Watertowers
You probably get Kickstarter requests on a daily basis from friends asking for support. But it’s not every day that you come across one trying to change the city’s skyline. That’s what The Water Tank Project is trying to do. For a million dollars, the Project “will transform the skyline by converting water tanks across […]
Ad Hoc Kick Starts!
It’s a blog eat blog world. That said, one of the dominating music blogs on the internet is no doubt, Pitchfork. But if you’re anything into indie music, you probably reaped over the discontinuation of Altered Zones. Altered Zones branched off of Pitchfork, featuring the most underground music. Basically, the ones that weren’t big enough […]
Hella Bitter Seltzer Cart
There are apparently still unexplored frontiers in the mobile food movement. Benjamin Harrison is trying to fund a bitter-infused seltzer drinks cart, which would be serving up drinks in the ‘burg. Since you guys liked his last kickstarter so much, maybe a local source out on the streets would take it to the next level. […]
155 Freeman: Triple Canopy, Light Industry, Public School
Triple Canopy, a locally-based online magazine that published such gems as She Goes Covered, is kickstarting a space in Greenpoint along with some partners. This September, three New York-based nonprofits—Triple Canopy, an online magazine, Light Industry, a cinema, and The Public School New York, an open-source classroom with no curriculum—will launch a new arts-and-culture center […]
floating pool on the east river?
Could this be real? First and foremost you should probably listen to THIS while reading this post…you know, for “atmosphere.” Both Curbed and the Village Voice have reported that the ever mysterious “+Pool” project is an actual possibility. +Pool is probably the coolest (literally) and most summer useful projects to date: the pool (in the […]