This is shaping up to be a big weekend full of cool stuff to do in North Brooklyn. Besides our very own Valentine’s Day Market, Gallery Night, and tons more, […]
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Macaulay Culkin Will Play a Kazoo Tomorrow Night in Bushwick (2/7)
Two things. 1. The Pizza Underground is a band that solely plays Velvet Underground covers…with lyrics about pizza. 2. Macaulay Culkin is in the band. And he plays the kazoo.
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02.05.14 Mixtape // Hand Job Academy
Clara Bizna$$ of conscious hip-hop group Hand Job Academy lassoed together this week’s playlist. It’s the audio equivalent to a private room party. Well, not that kind of private room party. […]
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Welding Is Her “Inner Fire” – Janet Rutkowski // BFD Firehouse Studios
Alone time can be lonely or even scary, but it’s also a time when we can truly know and understand ourselves (See what I mean? Scary!) Featured Valentine’s Market vendor Janet […]
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Instagram Take Over @gittlebass
This week’s Instagram Takeover is by @Gittlebass and we absolutely love this remarkable photo of the power plant across the East River, with barren winter trees and the old cobblestone […]
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Greenpoint Gallery Night Map (2/7)
Greenpoint Gallery Night is this Friday 2/7 from 6-9pm. While in the past this map has only been available online for download, the Gallery Night HQ Galleries at 67 West […]
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Isle of Rhodes EP (2/8) + Driftless Recordings (2/6) // Mutual Benefit (2/8) // Unlocking The Truth (a band of 12 yr olds!) (2/9)
This week, I’ve been enjoying the forthcoming EP from Isle of Rhodes: Affirmation Caravan. The band will play a release show at Spike Hill 2/8. Also, I have a few […]
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Greenpoint Power Couples – Kimmee & Evan, Greenpoint Trading Co.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating the love that wafts through the air in Greenpoint with profiles of some of our favorite entrepreneurial power couples. You might already shop […]
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A Dose of Greenpoint History – The USS Monitor
Last week, we hit the 152 year anniversary of Jan 30th, 1862, the year Greenpoint staked its claim on history as the site where the ironclad USS Monitor was built […]
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Brooklyn Heavy Metal is Badass Like Stevie Nicks
Featured vendor at our Valentine’s Market, Brooklyn Heavy Metal – with its in your face jewelry designs – embodies the essence of Stevie Nicks, “unique, independent, down to earth, free spirited, bad […]