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Feminist Punk Panel Talks Zines, Radical Politics, And Race
Anyone who bemoans feminist discussions for being stuffy, crunchy, woolen affairs is not only looking for a swift punch to the nethers, they’re also dead wrong. A panel held last Thursday at the...
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Ava’s Possessions Is the Bushwick Demon Flick You Knew Was Coming
It looks like Bushwick-based supernatural comedies are officially a thing: first there was last year’s vampire flick Summer of Blood and now, showing at SXSW this week, there’s newcomer Ava’s...
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Last-Call Related Assault at The Whiskey Ward
A photo of the female suspect accompanied by a male, both wanted by the NYPD for questioning (Photo: NYPD) A woman assaulted a 33-year-old male employee of the Whiskey Ward last Sunday morning, the...
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Yaffa Cafe Replaced; Bushwick Flea Market Launches
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The owner of Action Burger in Williamsburg released footage of two teen girls fighting outside its doors last November. [NY Daily News] Mid-summer, Portuguese restaurant Taberna...
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Hot Sugar Loves the Sound of Silence, and Things Simon & Garfunkel Never...
Blood Orange isn’t the only innovative electronic artist and producer holed up in the East Village: a new documentary that premiered at SXSW last night, Hot Sugar’s Cold World, takes us inside Nick...
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Irish or Irish-ish? What Our Local Pubs Are (or Aren’t) Doing For St. Paddy’s...
(Photos: Hannah McCarthy) A great green reckoning descends upon the city today. The bars will flood with stumbling, shouting multitudes. Faces will flush red behind oversized shamrock glasses. People...
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Two Female-Centric Music Mags Team Up to Slay Some Trolls at SXSW
Rebecca DeRosa, at left, with Fisty. The She Shreds showcases at SXSW (March 17-20) have a reputation of being (as we used to say in Texas) knock-down drag-outs—shows you get to for the first band and...
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Talks and Readings: Slam Champs, Nerd Nite, and a Teen Author Fest
Tuesday Don’t miss the first slam of Urbana’s last quarter — get your points now if you want to be on the 2015 slam poetry team, or just sit back and watch the competition and a feature by Zork,...
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Watch an LES ‘Gun Shop’ Lure People in and Freak Them Out
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, the Lower East Side had a gun store at 149 Orchard Street. The front window of GWH Gun Shop beckoned: “First-time gun buyer? We are here to help you.” Inside...
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Coffee and Tea Festival; Pet Lamb Spotted in Greenpoint
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Robert Durst, an alleged killer and the star of HBO’s The Jinx, made more than $12 million last year with the sale of two Brooklyn buildings, one of which was on Union Avenue in...
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March Is Punk Month: Paintings By The Fifth Ramone, and Which Johnny Rotten...
(The Strand) Buzzfeed’s Books Editor will be on hand at Johnny Rotten’s talk April 30 about his latest memoir, Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored. We’re hoping the discussion will lend itself to a...
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Is the Owner of Bushwick’s Spin-the-Bottle Diner Really as Cray as They Say?
Chang and a young lady at Gama jello wrestling (Photo: Chang Han’s Facebook) I like to think of myself as a very flexible person. Over-imbibing isn’t exactly on my list of “don’ts.” I’ve learned over...
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Sharkmuffin Cut Their New Album With a Little Help From Hole’s Drummer
Sharkmuffin (Photo: Alex Citrin) What do you do when the drummer of your band suffers an injury and has to drop out? If you’re lucky enough to be Sharkmuffin, you just wait for the ex-drummer from Hole...
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Recycle That Old VCR Instead of Heaving It Into a Nostalgia Pit
What do you do with e-waste if you’re not Daniel Arsham? (P’Welcome to the Future,’ consisting of thousands of calcified objects from the ’90s, at Locust Projects. Photo by Daniel Maurer) If the warm...
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North River Changes Direction, Becomes Nite Owl
“We never got that hug from the neighborhood we were hoping for” says Colby Zito, chef-owner of the East Village restaurant formerly known as North River. Three weeks ago, after a quick renovation,...
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‘This Bar Is Brooklyn’: St. Paddy’s Day With Rosemary at Her Greenpoint Tavern
“That’s my chair honey.” Rosemary Bleday reprimands a customer as he puts his hands on an empty chair at the end of the bar. Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern is packed to bursting with St. Patrick’s Day...
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Hit-and-Run Driver Loses License; 5-Cent Pies at Lombardi’s
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Leonardo Degianni, who admitted to causing a hit-and-run collision that killed Bushwick cyclist Mathieu Lefevre in 2011, will lose his driver’s license for six months. [Gothamist]...
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Native Kid Keeps It Local At Bushwick’s Freshest Banh Mi Joint
From left, Johnny and Dan (Photo: Nicole Disser) “I grew up right down the block,” Johnny Huynh (co-owner of Lucy’s, a tiny new Vietnamese restaurant in Bushwick) explained, beaming. “I’m a native. But...
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Join These Feminists As They Blow Up A Church In Greenpoint
If you’re still feeling like a dummy for missing last week’s panel on punk and feminism at the Brooklyn Museum, listen up because this weekend starts out with a similar bang: on Friday Pervasive...
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Like Taking Candy from Captain Sensible: A Chat With the Director of ‘The...
Photo: Ian Dickson The Damned are widely credited—and widely take the credit—for being the first punk rock band from the U.K. to cross the pond: first punk rock band to release a U.S. single (“New...
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