Franz Nicolay, multi-instrumentalist and genuine showman goes solo after serving time with just about every Brooklyn band of note. This is a very good thing.
May 5, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Music Profiles
So here’s the thing: I live in Manhattan. I realize this admission may count as blasphemy in these parts, but I spend what seems like several night a week in Brooklyn, and well, there’s nothing like an outsider’s perspective to keep people honest. I also write about Brooklyn a great deal, in both my fiction and non-fiction, so why don’t we start there and see what happens.
May 5, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest AuthorsOn Thursday April 29 at Freddy’s Bar, small magnetic LCD lights ascended rapidly from the hands of patrons, fixing themselves to the historic tin ceiling – a glowing, colorful metaphor for how this 70 year old establishment might soon be moving on.
April 30, 2010 Bars, Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Music Profiles
Every third Wednesday, in the middle of the afternoon, the ghost of my Great Grandfather stops into to my favorite bar in Prospect Heights. Inconveniently for everyone, he always sits at the center stool, creating gaps on either side of him as nobody likes getting wet from the splashing beer falling through his translucent body.
April 28, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Fiction, Guest AuthorsWelcome to the first episode of the new Brooklyn based series Awkward New York, starring locals Erin Felgar and Morgan Dover Pearl, written by Olivia Purnell and directed by Heath Cullins. This group of talented folks is hard at work on new episodes and BrooklynTheBorough.com will feature the series right here on the Zeitgeist.
April 23, 2010 Classic, Multi/Media, Video
Rumor has it that the main reason for President Obama’s trip to New York this morning was not to discuss financial regulatory reform, but rather to see the new Shepard Fairey wall on Houston Street, a few short blocks south of Cooper Union where he spoke. This Sunday April 24, 7-9:30pm, Mr. Fairey’s work will also hang on the walls of Factory Fresh Gallery in Bushwick for the Street Art New York Silent Auction to end all auctions, raising cash for Free Arts NYC.
April 22, 2010 Art n' About, Multi/Media, Photo, The Art
As much as Annabelle hated to admit it, the neighborhood really had changed. More progressive types had moved to Brooklyn in the past few years and their liberal antics sometimes made her seriously consider moving back to Montana. Annabelle wasn’t from Fort Greene originally, but she’d lived in the neighborhood a hell of a lot longer than these yo-yos. She was taller and longer than each of them, by at least a foot in both directions. Her tail and claws were much more serious too.
April 21, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Fiction, Guest Authors
Storyteller Ryan Britt at the Franklin Park Reading Series on April 12, 2010.
April 21, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, VideoHere at BrooklynTheBorough.com we know the cozy adorable brick buildings and glassy condos that surround us are peopled with talented and creative designers making life easier for all of us – and so we begin the search for our favorite. We’d like to invite you to submit your original design(s) for a brand new BrooklynTheBorough.com logo. Click through to read more about the prize!
April 15, 2010 The Art, The Locals
Throughout the five-boroughs, the aliens leveled all apartments, condos, townhouses, brownstones, high-rises, and houses systematically with top-of the line laser death-rays. Afterward, new buildings were constructed, and nearly everyone was relocated to a new apartment; a 10-foot by 10-foot living space with an incredibly low ceiling and a sliver of a window. That is, except for a few railroad apartments in Bushwhick.
April 15, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Writers, Fiction, Guest Authors
In the video enclosed author Mary Gaitskill reads “The Astral Plane Nail and Waxing Salon” at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights. This fictional story about Ashley Dupre and Silda Wall, Elliot Spitzer’s tryst and wife respectively, originally appeared in New York Magazine last fall and deals – intensely – with the dichotomy of Eve and Lilith. The tale features cameos by Elizabeth and John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. It’s a long one – three parts – but we’re sure you’ll enjoy the ride.
April 15, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, VideoLambda Literary Award nominee Frank Anthony Polito’s Facebook fan page for his book Band Fags! was deleted last Thursday by the social networking giant, for his use of “inappropriate language” in the title.
April 8, 2010 Queer News
In those days, the best place to drink for free in Brooklyn was in Red Hook at one very specific little art gallery on the night of an opening. It was (and still is) a little shack located at the end of the Van Brunt Street right off the water in the shadow of those big cranes that loom like prehistoric monsters in the mist. Called WORK Gallery, it was painted a deep red either as a reference to its neighborhood, or the result of mild insanity on the part of its owner. In any case, the party was always there.
April 7, 2010 Boroughing, Fiction, Guest Authors
Our Third party at Bar4 was a true madhouse. Resident performer Thorgy came out and made some serious magic to the tune of RuPaul’s “Jealous of My Boogie” as a live audition for RuPaul’s Drag Race Reason 3. Needless to say, Thorgy put her colorful spin on the whole song, drawing the admiration of the crowd and the show’s producers with this rare moment of genius. We’re rooting for you Thorgy!
April 3, 2010 Multi/Media, Queer Life, Queerespondence, VideoStephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby and The Adderall Diaries, reads at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn.
April 1, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, Video
The ribbon cutting for Pier 1, the first section of Brooklyn Bridge Park to open, took place in the rain on Monday, March 22.
April 1, 2010 Multi/Media, Read Features, Video
The photographs covering our kitchen table all share a singular theme; they’re portraits of the various stadium lights which surround the perimeter of McCarren Park on the edge of Greenpoint.
April 1, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Fiction, Guest AuthorsI was previously unaware of The Bushwick Starr when I attended The Target Margin Theater’s 2010 Laboratory, The Unknown Williams, a couple of weeks ago, and happily got my fix.
March 30, 2010 Boroughing, Theater
Life is tough working a shift at the Park Slope Food Coop.
March 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured WritersWe’re trading Brooklyns, moving from the thriving, throbbing 24-hour Crown Heights – where the noise of blasting reggae at 3 AM is matched only by the noise of blasting cantorial music at 3 AM – trading it in for the placid, tree-lined, and, yes, backyard-filled streets of Flatbush. My Hasidic friends think I’m selling out and moving to a Modern Orthodox neighborhood. My non-Hasidic friends think I’m selling out and moving to the suburbs.
March 30, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest AuthorsThe way some writers obsess about relationships — whether it’s poets reading poems about how they want to sleep with another poet in the audience, or novelists writing thinly-disguised (or not-disguised) accounts of their trysts/flings/marriages — I obsess about cities.
March 23, 2010 Boroughing, Guest AuthorsBrooklynTheBorough.com endured quite a week in Austin! We sold our souls to the camera crews, were bombarded with branding, a full time party schedule, 1,700 bands, and not enough time in the day to sleep and eat. Though we were somewhat unprepared for the madness that ensued, we survived and made friends and even got to see Hole make a New York Times-approved comeback. Here are some memorable quotes from the trip.
March 22, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles
Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine and writes fiction primarily and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and the Washington Post. Here, he reads a short story called Debt.
March 22, 2010 Authors Speak, Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, Multi/Media, The Read, VideoAUSTIN, TX — Bear In Heaven played their third of nine scheduled shows in Austin this week, on Thursday afternoon.
March 19, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, VideoAUSTIN, TX — Wu-Tang’s the GZA was found today rapping on a stage over on the East Side for the Southbound and Found party. We have sad video evidence.
March 19, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, VideoAUSTIN, TX — Kiss Kiss, a New York-based indie/folk/orchestral/whateveryoucallthisnow band, played a show at SXSW. True Story.
According to their MySpace page, the band will appear live in Glenn Beck’s living room later this month in Foxtown, New York.
March 19, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, VideoAUSTIN , TX — New York City-based “Future Rock” band Outernational played their first of many shows today at Cafe Mundi before appearing live with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. Click through to read more and watch the video.
March 19, 2010 Classic, Multi/Media, VideoAUSTIN, TX — Revelers at BrooklynVegan’s showcase at SXSW on Wednesday were disappointed when the GZA, a founding member of rap syndicate the Wu-Tang Clan, billed as the headliner, did not make his promised appearance at Emo’s. Click through for the exclusive video.
March 18, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, VideoToronto-based hardcore band Fucked Up plays Emo’s on March 17 at SXSW 2010.
March 18, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Video
