“I think a lot,” laughed the artist Itziar Barrio, stationed at the desk in her fifth floor studio at CSV (Clemente Soto Velez) on Suffolk Street in Manhattan. “That’s my job!” We were discussing her past eight years working as a full time artist – six of them in New York …
May 16, 2013 Classic, Featured Artists, Film
This savvy bunch of at once traditional and totally unconventional writers and performers will inhabit the Standard ToyKraft space in Williamsburg through May 18 with their latest production.
May 4, 2013 Classic, Theater, Video
The SXSW film premiere of The Punk Singer, a documentary on the life of Kathleen Hanna, happened in Austin, Texas last week. The documentary on the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin singer and longtime activist, artist and de facto leader of the 90s feminist movement riot grrrl, Kathleen, along with producer Tamra Davis and director Sini Anderson answered questions in a DIY media blitz down south. Special guest appearance by Amanda Palmer.
March 19, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Photo, Video
The son of the former congressman from the district announced his new office as a political consultant, and clued in his local group of political wonks on news from a recent meeting of district leaders for the Kings County Democratic Party. Here’s a little inside baseball on the Kings County Democratic Party as heads turn to the 2013 local races.
March 1, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, New, State Politics
Starting with her close group of friends who would come over with empty jars, Cindy’s Redhead Hot Sauce is a delicious homemade success now making its way onto the local market.
December 13, 2012 Bars, Video
These are the real local natives.
December 12, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, New, Night/Life, Photo
There is something for everyone – literally – at Brooklyn’s plethora of local DIY artisan and food markets. Here’s the December 2012 line up!
November 30, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Food, New, The People
This is massively complex and yet really simple. We need a new kind of media for a new era – internet public access if you will. Media that is for us and by us, that tells the truth as best as it can, reflects our cultures, and informs us about our community wherever we go across devices.
November 20, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Cooperative Public Media, New, The People
An interesting short film came through our inbox this morning that we felt compelled to share in relation to our past series on food and environmental issues in Brooklyn. Here it is: the real life stories of New York City dumpster divers.
November 14, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Film, New, Video
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) continues on with their year-long 150th birthday party by featuring the bizarre (and awesome) looking Cirkus Cirkör, a Swedish circus troupe arriving on our shores with the US premiere of Wear it like a crown – a tragicomic, and at times, absurd piece.
May 11, 2012 Theater
Playwright Tony Kushner sat down with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman to discuss Joe Biden’s comments which led to President Obama expressing support for same-sex marriage. But the Tony Award winning Tony says don’t believe the hype that this seeming flop wasn’t orchestrated somehow to test the national waters on the issue of gay marriage during an election season.
May 10, 2012 Multi/Media, Queerespondence, The People, Video
MOVEMENT is a brand new monthly party at Loreley in Williamsburg. Veteran DJs Ayesha Adamo and Cecil Grey are on the decks all night on third Wednesdays. Here’s a soundcloud of his inaugural set.
May 9, 2012 Audio, Bars, Boroughing, Classic, Music Reviews, Night/Life
Hakeem Jeffries must be really dedicated to the youth vote – the state assemblyman and now congressional candidate won’t let the issue of stop and frisk and racist drug policy laws die, kinda.
February 29, 2012 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, State Politics, The People
It seems the local DIY culture is starting to get noticed by the big leagues for its capital power. NYC life gets next to Etsy in a new series.
February 27, 2012 Featured Artists, Multi/Media, The People, Video
Writer and performer Shaina Feinberg shares an idea she thinks Jackie Chan and Kim Jong Il would both love.
December 20, 2011 Film
Far from giving up, #OccupyWallStreet has taken it’s fight to the internet while sleeping in city churches and community centers and continuing to hold General Assembly meetings in Liberty Plaza. Despite Mayor Bloomberg’s early morning raid almost two weeks ago, occupiers remain nimble and continue to turn out crowds. Matt Harvey visits the Plaza to report on the aftermath.
November 28, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, Multi/Media, The People, Video
The brutal reaction of police towards #occupywallstreet protestors in New York City, of campus police at UC Davis to students, and in many instances around the country have only inspired thousands more to fill American streets with their voices. That inspiration, a reawakening within the spirit and mind, is contagious – in my case, it came at a personal cost many years ago.
November 21, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, State Politics, The People
It should come as no surprise that Brooklyn political boss Vito Lopez organized a press opportunity featuring himself and an assortment of political pets claiming to be in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement.
October 26, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, Multi/Media, State Politics, Video
Thanks to all the French intellectuals roaming around Brooklyn these days, the Walls & Bridges series delivered to our door many talented young francophones including the cast of the musical Please Kill Me, based on the popular book, an oral history of punk. Read our review and watch video of this one time exclusive performance.
October 26, 2011 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Theater, Video
I’m writing this at the end of the twelfth day of #occupywallstreet about a place many people are calling Zucotti Park. I know it as Liberty Square and so should you. The best part about this movement is twofold for me, here’s why.
September 30, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, The People, Video
Marty Markowitz and Steven Levin teamed up to give some cash to further the cause of building North Brooklyn’s first Town Hall.
September 27, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Theater
We received this statement from Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries on the NYPD’s new internal directive regarding illegal marijuana arrests.
September 23, 2011 City Politics, The People
We first introduced you to Iztiar Barrio in December 2009 when she placed a billboard atop a building at the corner of Fulton and Nostrand in Bed-Stuy proclaiming it the new paradise. On Friday September 30, Ms. Barrio will take on another public art project called The Blue Wall Project, this time tapping into the impermanence of the city in – where else? – Williamsburg.
September 22, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, Film, Multi/Media, Photo
Jester’s Dead re-imagines the classic 80s flick, Top Gun, in a theatrical parody packed with swordfights, songs, and text from every play in Shakespeare’s canon. In this adrenaline-fueled mashup, we’re going straight to the danger zone.
September 21, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Theater, Video
The best thing about Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant is that it is a good idea that was kept alive through dedication, aspiration and motivation. Its storyline and classic rock inspired song numbers are beautifully tongue in cheek, reek of irony, and rolled in delight.
September 19, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
For vegetarian and vegan Brooklynites, especially those of us lamenting the closures of a few mainstay vegan spots, there is hope at the end of the tunnel and its name is Dao Palate, situated perfectly between Park Slope and Prospect Heights.
May 3, 2011 Boroughing, Restaurants
Brooklyn has a lot to be grateful for, and that is especially true of our hometown investigative theater troupe The Civilians.
April 30, 2011 The People, Theater
A little birdie recently put it in our ear that a new theater would be opening in the Columbia Waterfront district. But it’s not just any old theater.
April 29, 2011 Boroughing, Theater
BrooklynTheBorough.com extends its sincerest condolences to the families of filmmaker and photojournalist Tim Hetherington and fellow Brooklynite and Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros, both killed by mortar fire while reporting on the conflict in Libya.
April 20, 2011 Boroughing, In Brooklyn, The People
The House of Yes in Bushwick has become the only theater in New York City specifically dedicated to aerial arts. Next Month the aerial troupe will stage their own version of Spider Man, that according to Lady Circus member Kae Burke, “will blow the Broadway version out of the water.”
April 11, 2011 Boroughing, In Brooklyn, Theater
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