Kim and Thurston were role models for working in a creative partnership. We thought we could trust these over-30s to model a lifestyle we could get into, one that would veer away from such clichés as the midlife crisis affair. So, what now?
May 9, 2013 Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
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
I arrived at ABC No Rio on a recent Saturday, sixteen years after my first matinee for a record release party celebrating the local lady band Claire’s Diary. It was the first time it really sunk in how far things had come.
February 26, 2013 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Music Reviews, Shows, Video
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
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
Thankfully YouTube has allowed our account to upload more than 15 minutes at a time because this is seriously a great video. Last but not least in our Book Fest video series this year came from the last and likely largest panel of the day featuring Dan Savage.
September 28, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Video
Towards the end of Brooklyn Book Fest we headed over to the Brooklyn Historical Society’s gorgeous old library for “Power to the People: Grassroots Revolution in the Post-Hope Era.”
September 25, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
In this video, Hayes takes a really long time just to tell us that OWS and the Tea Party have enough in common to be friends.
September 24, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Locals, The Read, Video
At this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival authors Baratunde Thurston, Rebecca Walker and Wesley Yang discussed “The Politics of Identity—Do They Still Matter?” moderated by Amitava Kumar.
September 24, 2012 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead were in Andy Warhol’s inner circle and speak about him in a new documentary Full Circle: Before They Were Famous, screening at at Site/109 in Manhattan.
May 11, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Video
Dare you to watch this video and not click away. Let’s play a game and see how long you can keep your high speed internet brain focused on the content.
May 10, 2012 Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Shows, Video
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
The music video for Shadow is a trip back to 1979 through the eyes of an introverted photo assistant who’s becomes far from camera shy when a nude model arrives on set. It’s written and directed by Ryan O’Hara Theisen who is a filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, he sent over his thoughts on it.
May 10, 2012 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
What more can we ask for but a good old fashion examination of SEX DUIS and VIDEOTAPE? That’s what Site/109 must have thought when they booked this show, running through Sunday, in their newly anointed LES space. Dumbo-based curator Claire Breukel was on hand at the opening reception to give me a short tour of the deceptively spacious pop up space run by social media and publicity mavens Meryl Weinsaft Cooper and Helen Allen.
March 9, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Video
The avuncular old Dave got all Ed Sullivan on us last night as he closed out a performance by our borough’s own White Rabbits.
March 2, 2012 Multi/Media, Video
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
Big news arrived in my inbox today from Doug DeFalco, resident promoter and booker for Park Slope venue Southpaw. He writes: It is with an extremely weighted heart that I inform you that, after ten years, Southpaw will be closing its doors in late February. It seems like yesterday we …
January 26, 2012 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
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
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
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
Author Jhumpa Lahiriwas was honored with a Bobi Award today at the 6th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival, for a body of work that exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn and has had a broad impact on the field of literature.
September 18, 2011 Authors Speak, Digital/Read, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
As the temperature in Brooklyn inches closer and closer to 60 degrees and we begin to shed our layers of clothing once again, it’s time to emerge from our cold weather cocoons. Here’s to the rebirth of spring and the rituals that keep us sane: gardening, nurturing the mind and body and learning to live sustainably.
April 8, 2011 Boroughing, Culture, Food, Multi/Media, The People, Video
Borough President Marty Markowitz loves to make a splash – especially at his annual State of the Borough address, known for its fanfare. This year, Marty rode into the Sunset Park High School Auditorium on a tricycle to the tune of Queen’s “Bicycle Race.” Click through for the video and full text of Marty’s speech.
February 4, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Video
On my trip down the Newtown Creek aboard Captain John Lipscomb’s ship – before the city’s bout of winter madness – we grazed through a putrid-smelling “rotting mud,” described by the captain as the result of a century of contaminants being poured, dumped, or leaked into the creek by polluters. But, he told me, “in one hundred years this could be prime real estate.”
February 4, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Photo, Video
And now, a follow up. BrooklynTheBorough.com noted a Lou and Laurie sighting in December when local duo Buke & Gass played a homecoming show at Mercury Lounge. We had no idea the evening would end with the couple asking the band out for slices of pizza – or a full blown collaboration.
February 3, 2011 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Video
From pie weights to Pyrex, each of us considers a different set of elements to be crucial to our cooking, and we often have strong opinions as to why. In this column, I will ask chefs, foodies, and restaurateurs from across the borough for the top ten necessities—both edible and utensil—that they keep stocked in their home kitchens. In this installment, Working Class Foodies producer Rebecca Lando gives us her top ten must-haves.
February 1, 2011 Beats Playlist, Boroughing, Classic, Culture, Food, Multi/Media, Video
In the spirit of holiday giving, we bring you LIVE LEAK, our new video series featuring live acts from Southpaw and around the borough. We begin with leaks from our most recent event on November 11 at Southpaw featuring performances by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye, Outernational, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers and singer Tamar Korn. Our first Live Leak feature is an acoustic performance of She Craves Spring by Outernational.
December 9, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Shows, Video
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