This week I am going to teach you my favorite web-based ways to preview bands playing in North Brooklyn, so you can discover your own favorites to catch this weekend. […]
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War Is Trauma? Booklyn Helps War Veterans Make Art for Social Justice (Part 2)
Booklyn’s Marshall Weber knows the facts, and he explains them during our interview with an astounding passion. It’s rare to meet someone like him—informed and active about an issue that […]
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Hipster Shaman: Bill Hayden at Real Fine Arts
Greenpoint sits fine with no longer being Brooklyn’s “it” spot, and Bill Hayden’s show at Real Fine Arts seems okay with this, too—perhaps even celebrating the area’s confounding mix of shop […]
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Don’t Miss the Last Night of The Hum: A Rare Evening of Musical Collaboration at Manhattan Inn
People spill out of seats, onto steps and out through the doorframe of the back room of the Manhattan Inn. Lights low, tables topped with candlelight, the dark wooden room […]
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Weekend Music Picks: A How-To Guide for Going Crazy at the Club
This weekend’s music picks are dedicated to our favorite dance and club music around town. We’ve also provided some advice about clubbing properly, sourced from some classic songs about the […]
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Booklyn’s Marshall Weber on artists’ books & revolutionizing the art world (Part 1)
In the nineties, Booklyn Artists Alliance would have been an interesting place in New York—in fact, it would have been just one of the many interesting places in this city […]
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The Spring Market is Happening this Sunday (4/26)!!! Preview our Vendors!!
We are having so much fun getting ready for our Spring Celebration this coming Sunday where Electric Wildflowers will bloom! Since last week, there’s been a few exciting new additions including fresh music selections amplified […]
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This Saturday is Record Store Day
Local record stores are offering extended hours and live in-store performances for Record Store Day this Saturday (4/18). Captured Tracks, Academy Records Annex, Record Grouch, Rough Trade, and Earwax […]
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Weekend Music Picks: The Sound of Fury, or Kindness, If You Prefer (4/17-4/19)
A few decades ago, if I wanted to buy a Gorilla Biscuits or Dead Kennedys t-shirt, it meant dragging my scared, skinny fifteen-year-old self to St. Mark’s Place to find […]
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Weekend Music Picks: Breakups and Hang-ups (4/10 – 4/11)
Neighbors, I must warn you, I am a little out of sorts today. My wife has flown to a faraway coast on business, and when that happens I get […]