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Smorgasburg coming to Vice’s event space Villian this November

November 12, 2018 By Robert Lanham

Smorgasburg coming to Vice’s event space Villian this November

Next month, swing by Villian at 307 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg. Vice and the people behind Smorgasburg will be hosting an indoor food market with a full bar and DJs each Friday through December. The Night Market will be a more experiential affair at Vice’s Williamsburg venue Villain, with Smorgasburg co-founders Eric Demby and Jonathan […]

Filed Under: Events, Williamsburg Tagged With: Night Market, smorgasburg, vice, Villian

Vice is taking over Wburg venue Villian for branding events and “activations for advertising clients”

May 7, 2018 By Free Williamsburg

Vice is taking over Wburg venue Villian for branding events and “activations for advertising clients”

Evidently no club is safe in Williamsburg. Vice already killed Death by Audio and Glasslands. Now, they’re taking over Villian.  Announcing the acquisition during its NewFronts presentation Friday afternoon, Vice is putting a greater emphasis on its ability to produce live events and activations for advertising clients. The company is no stranger to hosting events […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: death by audio, gentrification, Glasslands, vice, Villian

Northside Festival announces first wave of 2017 artists and speakers

March 23, 2017 By Free Williamsburg

Northside Festival announces first wave of 2017 artists and speakers

SPONSORED POST   It’s our favorite time of the year! Northside Festival has just announced its first wave of 2017 artists and speakers— it’s safe to say they have outdone themselves yet again. Northside Music, which runs from June 8-11, will feature headlining shows from Dirty Projectors, Miguel, Thursday, and Kamasi Washington.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 33 1/3, abba, dirty projectors, Downtown Boys, droga5, elysia crampton, fader, girlpool, happyness, hbo, Julia Holter, kamasi washington, lower dens, miguel, mirah, National Sawdust, new york times, northside, Northside Festival, pitchfork, pup, Ricky Eat Acid, Sacred Bones, Sasheer Zamata, snl, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, thursday, Vagabon, vice, william basinski

Former VICE writer arrested for stealing coffee from a Union Avenue grocery

October 19, 2016 By Josh Morrissey

A writer who has contributed to the

Filed Under: News Tagged With: rob, union ave, vice

Former Glasslands owners opening $3 million venue in Bushwick called Elsewhere

June 30, 2016 By Robert Lanham

Now this is big news. Elsewhere is set to open this fall: When Glasslands Gallery, the influential independent club on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn, closed at the end of 2014, its owners had already been thinking about what was next. The partners — Rami Haykal, 28, and Jake Rosenthal, 29 — had booked shows […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Elsewhere, Glasslands, music venue, vice

Vice Media to be levitated into the East River this afternoon

March 3, 2015 By Josh Morrissey

Vice Media’s headquarters on North 11th street in Brooklyn are in danger of being levitated into the East River this afternoon at 3:35pm by a music collective known as Talibam!. From

Filed Under: News Tagged With: levitation, moving, vice

Joe Biden enters Williamsburg, proclaims himself 'Weird Guy'

February 4, 2015 By Josh Morrissey

Joe Biden is in Brooklyn today to pay a visit to the Williamsburg overlords Vice Magazine and potentially hip up his image in lieu of a Presidential run. Gothamist has more photos if you are interested, but what I’m mostly interested in is the possibility of Bill Murray and Joe Biden drunkenly running into each […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bill murray, Joe Biden, the commodore, vice, Williamsburg

Free Movie and Afterparty Screening at Verboten Tonight

January 8, 2015 By Megan Venzin

Thump and Verboten are bringing a new documentary about Jersey Club music to Verboten tonight with an after party featuring music from DJ SLiiNK, UNIIQU3, DJ TAMEIL, DJ TIM DOLLA, R3LL and TR!CK$. Brick City is an exploration of the Jersey Club movement that has been growing in popularity over that several years. Tonight’s screening […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Events, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: DJ SLiiNK, Jersey Club, R3LL, Thump, Tim Dolla, TR!CK$, UNIIQU3, verboten, vice

The DBA/Vice/landlord feud is becoming a he-said, she-said 'soap opera'

December 10, 2014 By Free Williamsburg

We all can agree that we miss DBA, but the details about the club closing have become very murky. Reps from DBA feel they were pushed out, whereas Vice and DBA’s former landlord tell a very different story: Edan Wilber of DBA says: Well, we didn’t get bought out. At no point did money change […]

Filed Under: Music, Uncategorized, Williamsburg Tagged With: DBA, Edan Wilber, vice

Dance Party Funeral for Williamsburg coming to Glasslands

November 17, 2014 By Robert Lanham

With the closings of Glasslands and Death By Audio coming soon (not to mention this, this, this , this and this) Williamsburg is feeling pretty gutted these days. Appropriately, the artist collective Cheryl is throwing a funeral dance party to “celebrate” all the closings called “Nail in the Coffin.” They’re encouraging people to come dressed […]

Filed Under: Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: 285 kent, Cheryl, Funeral Dance Party, Glasslands, vice

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