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
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
Today, with the resignation of Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, it seems like a lot of folks are toppling over each other to point and yell at Mayor Bloomberg. Here’s what arrived in our inbox today.
April 7, 2011 City Politics
The New York based singer-songwriter and accompanist is ironically the least recognizable name in a cadre of New York musicians slowly approaching marquee status and it was great to finally catch his solo act. With so many opportunities Bartlett is able to do what he wants with little regret or anything that resembles a shell. Here’s how he keeps busy.
April 7, 2011 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles
Brooklyn’s O’Death release their third LP Outside on Ernest Jenning Record Company after a tumultuous year-long hiatus and a clean bill of health.
March 31, 2011 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles
“The word ‘Aitai’ means I want to see you or I want to meet you or I miss you. It phonetically sounds the same sounds as ‘I Tie’," New York-based Japanese visual artist Tomoe Tsutsumi explained to me recently. Tsutsumi was a 2010 artist in residence at Skowhegan School of …
March 25, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, The Art
At an official ceremony featuring Marty Markowitz at Brooklyn Borough Hall recently, the folks behind Williamsburg’s annual Northside Festival announced bohemian favorite Beirut will headline the June festival. A week prior saw Brooklyn’s Panache Booking Agency organizing an early Spring Break with the first annual hipster Bruise Cruise to the Bahamas. Consider this the nation’s annual hang over recovery week as folks try to determine just exactly what they saw (and actually remember) at Austin’s South by Southwest Music showcase last week. Need more options?
March 23, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Music Profiles
A certain magic whirled around a particularly windy night in Bushwick recently as winter pushed its way into spring, if only briefly. Along with a mix of sidewalk debris, groups of people hovered near featured galleries, marking their otherwise undetectable entrance ways. The light of the full moon was a nice extra as I made my way to view the participating galleries in Bushwick’s Beat Nite.
February 24, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, Night/Life
And so it begins, again. Fashion week in New York City is a very special time – for very special people. Especially if your name is Anna.
February 10, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Fashion
Crown Heights lies at the center of Brooklyn’s Caribbean community, home to one of the largest expatriate populations in the US with immigrants from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Haiti, and elsewhere. Nostrand Avenue, running north-south through Crown Heights, is dotted with roti shops and groceries, making it an ideal place to shop for West Indian ingredients.
February 8, 2011 Boroughing, Food, Things to Do
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
The Buke & Gass duo, featuring Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, highlights precisely what’s frustrating about small scene independent sound these days from New York to Portland – they always leave us wanting more.
December 22, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles, Music Reviews
The Penny House Cafe in Prospect Heights opened its doors in March 2010 and has remained bustling with Wi-Fi workers, coffee lovers, and hungry locals ever since. Offering more than just coffee on the thriving strip of shops on of Washington Avenue has made this cafe a great stop for a snack or a meal.
December 22, 2010 Restaurants
LaunchPad is an arts-based community center in Crown Heights. Started by Mike Kunitzky last winter, the space transforms depending on what neighborhood groups want to use it for. “I wanted a place where people could exchange ideas and make things happen,” says Kunitzky, a constantly smiling 35-year-old. “There’s potential for magic in those unexpected talents and interactions.”
December 17, 2010 Art n' About, Boroughing, Culture, Multi/Media, Photo, The People
We’ve heard all the jokes before: The sidewalks are so clogged with strollers that they’ve become impassible. Bars are about as hip as a windbreaker, are perpetually overrun by the under-5 contingent, and you’ll be shushed if you curse in public. There are no restaurants other than high-chair strewn pizza parlors, making it ludicrous for North Brooklynites to bother leaving their adult environs and subject themselves to the mercurial whims of the F train. Wary travelers take note – there’s a lot more to Park Slope than Gerber Organic.
December 14, 2010 Bars, Boroughing, Things to Do
The past decade for New York-based independent labels has either been rough going or a coming out party that no one saw coming. It is not easy to trace how every tiny label arrived at this point, right down to the micro-trends littering Brooklyn’s past decade in music, but there are two labels in particular that might offer the perfect snapshot of Brooklyn 2001 and Brooklyn 2010.
December 13, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic
For the last nine years, artist Trevor Wentworth has made work at studios in Bushwick, Williamsburg, and most recently Carroll Gardens. His third floor studio on Bergen Street is eight feet wide and twelve feet long, just enough room for the bare essentials. It’s here that Wentworth creates his bracingly complex paper sculptures and miniature tabletop installations, which form at the intersection of the physical and metaphorical definitions of the lens.
December 13, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists
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
Musician Kevin Johnston has to be just about our favorite regular hanging around Brooklyn these days, and now the time has come to put his life’s endeavor on the horizon and strive for it. Like many folks around the borough this time of year, Kevin is raising money for a creative project – in his case, to record an independent record of his own creation. Read more about this project and watch Kevin’s video about what, exactly, he’s planning to create.
December 8, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
Ladies and gentleman, this Second Saturday at Southpaw our very own Queerespondent Jen Tullock will be making her worldwide debut in character as everyone’s new favorite 90s white girl rapper Jenatari. Who better to ring in the holiday season then one of our very favorite local comediennes! But before she was Jenatari.. she was Estelle! and Charisma! And an almost-expired Bushwick roommate. We caught up with her in advance of Jenatari’s debut performance to talk about her past characters and various incarnations of the one and only Jen Tullock.
December 8, 2010 Classic, Features, Multi/Media, Queerespondence, Video
Last Thursday night at least one gallery was experiencing some post-tryptophan bliss. At 111 Front Street, A.I.R. Gallery boasted three simultaneous openings.
December 7, 2010 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic
Ever fantasize about a baby-headed Karl Rove cuddling a duchess Ronald Reagan or perhaps a handsome Jesus-Reagan cradling a little Glenn Beck lamb? Greenpoint artist, Michael Caines has dedicated the past year to doing just that.
December 7, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists
This summer, I declared one movie and one movie alone to be what I called “bed bug worthy,” meaning that I would overcome my phobia of those pesky insects to see Black Swan in all of its feathered glory. I was hardly disappointed.
December 7, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Film, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Video
Through December 11, local investigative theater company The Civilians are staging In The Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards at Fort Greene’s Irondale Center, mere blocks from where this long-debated project is currently underway. We caught up with Michael Friedman, the show’s lyricist and composer, to ask him about process, community dialogue and his personal views on the project.
December 2, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
Shelly Oria’s final contribution is about a man who wanted to be a better man—the kind of man who’s not a prisoner of his own anatomy, the kind of man who saves a life if he can, expecting nothing in return.
November 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, The Locals
Author Rick Moody appeared at the Franklin Park Reading series and read from his novel The Four Fingers of Death. Moody described the novel, narrated by one Montese Crandall, to the Washington Post as “a 900-page comic novel about a disembodied arm set in the desert in 2026.” Put off? Listen in here and find out where the narrator’s name originated.
November 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Video
For a nontraditional, Midwestern, Polish-American (via Brooklyn) Thanksgiving, try these stuffed collards with beef and rice. Soft, succulent, and slightly sweet – the perfect cold-weather meal.
November 22, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Food, Recipes
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