Archive for October, 2011
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Culture Click: Even for Tourists, Bushwick Is Cool
January 28th, 2009In a piece in Canada’s Globe and Mail about lodging in “authentic” neighborhoods around the world, Bushwick (and the NY Loft Hostel) shares a paragraph with Buenos Aires’ Barracas and Berlin’s Mitte. This article is an un-self-aware paean to…
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News Click: We’re the Graffitiest!
January 27th, 2009Graffiti complaints are on the rise in North Brooklyn, and as this Daily News article (for a change) correctly attests, part of that rise is due to less tolerant residents…
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A Satanic Night at Starr Space
January 27th, 2009
Rocking out at Starr Space. — Photo by Scot BowmanStarr Space hosted a night of explosive rock and theatrics, as Pass Kontrol, Lady Magma, Marionettes of Satan, and Buffie Gilbert impressed a spirited crowd at the beautiful…
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Culture Click: Middle Aged Nudity at 3rd Ward
January 27th, 2009The delightful Brooklyn Paper sent its editor to 3rd Ward to pose for its “Drink and Draw” nude drawing class. The results… wow. Gersh Kuntzman gets an award for reaching a new level of self-deprecation, and he’s certainly got…
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‘California-Style Mex’ LA Burrito Is Open
January 26th, 2009
We’re happy to report that as of this weekend, “California Style Mexican” restaurant LA Burrito is open! From the menu dropped at my door today, the prices aren’t bad… that is, if we were a captive audience. But this…
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Culture Click: Nasty Bushwick Loft Party
January 26th, 2009I never quite knew the specifics of what happens at these loud loft parties that I imagine smell like old Miller High Life, but I didn’t know they had progressed to being piss parties. Will yellow hankies make it…
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Culture Click: The ‘Not So Rich Ones’ in Bushwick
January 23rd, 2009
Well, it’s not exactly an ethnographic study, but in parts it reads like one. A mysterious New Yorker, who goes by the moniker “Krull” in forum-land, and who has posted over 2000 posts to SkyscraperCity (once exclusively dedicated to…
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Culture Click: Villager Profiles House of Yes
January 23rd, 2009Greenwich Village’s scrappy local weekly came all the way out to our neighborhood industrial park buffer zone to chat with the crew at the House of Yes. Like a phoenix, the vaudevillian venue has risen from the literal ashes…
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Bushwick Cooks: Baked Macaroni and Cheese
January 23rd, 2009
I have to admit, this weather has really gotten me down. Between the cold, the wind, the snow, and the ice, my motivation to leave my apartment has been slim to none. The few times I’ve actually made it…
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The Many Fitting Adjectives for the Wilson L Stop
January 22nd, 2009
Entrance to the Wilson Avenue L stop. — Photos by Stephanie HolmesRecently a fellow Bushwick resident referred to my stop on the L train, Wilson Avenue, as “infamous.” The dictionary defines “infamous” as: “Having an exceedingly bad…
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