Clueless was playing at McCarren last night. You could bring your dog and lay down around a big screen on the asphalt. Nice. Here’s a shout-out to your best Instagram comments, […]
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Happy Birthday Dear Diamond… (7/02)
Neighborhood favorite The Diamond is turning eight this week and you’re invited to their party! On Thursday they will be celebrating their Eighth Anniversary in style with the return of […]
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North Brooklyn PRIDE!
June is LGBTQ Pride Month and events, celebrations and parties have been popping up all over Brooklyn culminating in the huge Manhattan parade this weekend. And it couldn’t be more […]
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Celebrity Chef Michael Psilakis Opens Event Space and Mega-Restaurant on Driggs Avenue
There’s something about the segment of Driggs Avenue between N 10th and N 11th streets that attracts a different type of business from other blocks in the area. First came Fushimi, […]
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Queens’ Biggest Flea & Food Market is in Long Island City
LIC Flea & Food is now in its 3rd season and is bigger and better than ever. The market has the largest selection of both flea and food vendors found […]
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Northside Music Picks: Day Four
Some of you may be old enough to remember the Reagan-era “this is your brain on drugs” TV ad, the one that shows an egg frying in a pan. I […]
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Brooklyn Barge Bar Set to Open Soon!
The long anticipated Brooklyn Barge Bar is looming ever closer on our horizons. Although not yet open for business, the barge itself will take up its new position near Transmitter Park […]
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Lost Lectures Two NY with Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead, Josephine Decker, Tao Lin, Jon Ronson, Diana Al-Hadid, and more!
Join Brooklyn art blogazine Hyperallergic and UK’s unoffical speakeasy of the lecture world The Lost Lectures for the second installment of Lost Lectures NY on JUNE 5TH! A secret venue in […]
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New, Old Photographs of the Neighborhood: Catalán @Picture Farm & Salamone @GCA Salon
One more side effect of North Brooklyn’s rapidly mutating scene is the ramping up of “I was here when…” memories, which are arriving in shorter and tighter cycles. This means […]
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El Toro Ready for Summer with Liquor License and Revamped Back Yard
El Toro Ironworks (formerly El Toro Taqueria) is my most local of local Mexican joints. Their tacos were the first takeout I ordered after moving into my apartment (flashback to […]