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Four Must-See Shows This Week, From a Neo-Noise OG to a Bedroom Punk QT
Boy oh boy this weekend’s gonna be a wild one. There’s a lot of dark energy floating around right now. People have reached their breaking point with winter and it’s hard not to feel like something’s...
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Keith Boadwee May Or May Not Have Painted These Poppies With His Butt
Keith Boadwee is known for provocative photographs like this NSFW one of a compromised Homer Simpson doll as well as his “scatological” paintings (meaning he painted them with poo). About 20 years...
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Exploding Manhole Injures Fire Chief; Family of Tire Swing Victim Sues City
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The family of Aleim Perkins, the 39-year-old man killed in December when he was hit in the face with a tire swing at Tompkins Square Park, says they will sue the city for $10...
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Make Like John Denver and Score a Free Tree This Weekend
The greenfingered of Greenpoint can get their hands on a free tree this Saturday. At the Brooklyn Public Library’s Greenpoint branch, between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., 100 trees of four...
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Talking Mafia Ghosts And Specters of the Lower East Side With Owners Of The Keep
Diego and Stephanie Castillo, owners of The Keep. (Photo: Nicole Disser) Walking into The Keep, a newish bar that straddles the Bushwick / Ridgwood border, can be something of a dizzying experience at...
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Billet & Bellows Adds Food, Barkeep Smashes ‘Piñata Full of Candy and Vibrators’
A couple of fun developments in the world of Billet & Bellows, the Williamsburg bar opened by local blacksmith Kristina Kozak. First off, the bar just added food in the way of dishes like the...
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Castles, Vassals and Tassles: Game of Thrones Gets a Burlesque Twist
Photo: Courtesy of Hotsy Totsy Burlesque and Joe “The Shark” Naftali The fifth season of Game of Thrones doesn’t premiere until April 12, but if you’re missing its byzantine intrigue, bloodshed and...
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A Closer Look at Level Hotel, a Gentle Giant Due to Hit Williamsburg By...
When the 21-floor Level Hotel opens in Williamsburg, on the corner of Wythe Avenue and North 13th Street, it’ll have a look that’s closer to The Standard, High Line than to the neighboring Wythe...
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Step Inside Farmhouse, a New Italian-American Bistro On the LES
(Photos courtesy of Farmhouse) (Photos courtesy of Farmhouse) (Photos courtesy of Farmhouse) (Photos courtesy of Farmhouse) After opening an upstairs oyster bar back in September, the owners of Ludlow...
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Holiday Cocktail Lounge Reopens; Asia De Cuba Moves Downtown
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Holiday Cocktail Lounge finally reopened last night on St. Marks Place following a three-year absence. [NY Times] Starting today, Jeffrey Chodorow’s Asia de Cuba—which closed in...
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Talks and Readings: Jock Talk, Co-Habitation Snafus, and Memory Maladies
Tuesday Tear yourself away from the rabid excitement of March Madness and come see three of your favorite sports writers at KGB. Mina Kimes is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, where she writes...
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Bushwick’s Boobie Bar Transforms Italian Spot Into Party Zone With Cold Pizza
Verde is dead, long live Pizza Party (Photo: Nicole Disser) The people behind Boobie Trap, most likely Brooklyn’s first and only boob-themed bar, are taking over their Bushwick block. Back in January,...
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Fair-ly Good News: WFMU Record Fair Bounces to Brooklyn, Vinyl Fair Hits Queens
Good news, Brooklyn record hounds — you won’t have to venture into Manhattan, much less above 14th Street, for WFMU’s annual record fair, which was held at the Armory and the Metropolitan Pavilion in...
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‘Gentrify White’ Crayon Accompanies Bushwick Artist’s New Book
(Photo: J. Phillip Nix) A local cartoonist whose comics and illustrations appear regularly on Bushwick Daily has created a limited edition crayon to coincide with the release of his new book, Stranger...
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Lil’ Bit of Bowery Off of Bedford, Lil’ Bit of Bushwick on the Bowery
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Here’s an odd site outside of Sanford & Sven’s, our favorite Williamsburg junk shop: this signage came off of 308 Bowery when Duane Park moved in with Bowery Poetry Club. No,...
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Renderings of the $335M ‘Dryline’; Madonna’s East Village Days
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Two new bike lanes are planned en route to the J.J. Byrne Memorial Bridge joining Greenpoint and Sunnyside, Queens. [Brownstoner] Check out renderings for the “Dryline” that could...
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Early Taste of the ‘K-BBQ’ at Williamsburg’s Umami Burger, Opening Thursday
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Umami Burger dropped a flavor bomb on Williamsburg yesterday, announcing at 4pm that it was giving away dinner to the first 150 people who signed up at its new location at 158...
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Salty Brine Gives Abbey Road the Cabaret Treatment, and Pinkerton May Be Next
Salty Brine, meet Ringo Starr. For his new one-man show, East Village performer Salty Brine will take one of his favorite records and weave stories around the songs so the audience experiences the...
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First-Time Erotica Authors Hit the G-Spot (the Guggenheim, Silly)
Andrea McGinty. Last night the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosted a reading by the first three authors of Brooklyn-based publisher Badlands Unlimited’s new erotica book series, New Lovers. The sound...
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A Van Hopped the Curb and Slammed into Phebe’s on the Bowery
Photo courtesy of Ryan Birkenhead A van ran into Phebe’s Tavern & Grill on the corner of East Fourth Street and Bowery shortly before noon today, putting a dent in the side of the recently...
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