Archive for October, 2011
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Culture Clicks: Scraggly Beards, Gay Shenanigans
July 16th, 2009Nothing especially unique about beards so kinky and filthy and, ugh, RED, that you can barely look at them even on a computer screen…
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Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 7/16/09
July 16th, 2009After the weird spring, late arrival of summer and torrential rain, how awesome has the sunny weather been lately? Summer = love…
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Bushwick House of the Week: 1051 Hancock
July 15th, 2009Almost any location right off Bushwick Avenue will guarantee some great local architecture and a spot in or very near a likely future historic district…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 7/15/09
July 15th, 2009This week, we’ve focused on an area within a 5-minute walk of the Knickerbocker M station. Because this train line travels along Myrtle, there are two quite distinct areas that satisfy this criterion: north and south of Myrtle.
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Jonah Bokaer at River to River Festival
July 14th, 2009As a founder of two area performance spaces and administrator of a $150,000 arts grant, it is easy to overlook Jonah Bokaer the choreographer.
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J-POP: Exquisitely Carved Crap. Literally.
July 14th, 2009The J-POP exhibition at Lumenhouse is billed as “a new Japanese aesthetic of playful invention from the material realities of everyday life,” but this might be an under-sell.
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Bushwick Inlet Park! Yawn.
July 13th, 2009Fine, here’s a short article from WNYC on New York’s newest huge open lawn that nobody will use, Bushwick Inlet Park. Everyone’s been talking about it (despite the name, it is on the Williamsburg waterfront) and gushingly praising it…
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Freelance Wasteland: Google Can Be a Bitch
July 13th, 2009Here’s another installment of Barrett Brown’s “Freelance Wasteland,” logo forthcoming. Check out last week’s piece.
Notes from Bushwick
It would probably be best if Hunter S. Thompson had never lived, or, rather, if he were to be kept secret…
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Woman Watching Nephew Shot Dead in Crossfire
July 13th, 200944-year-old Jesselle Page was watching her 8-year-old nephew play at the Bushwick Houses playground at 140 Moore Street when she was shot dead in the crossfire between two men.
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Thirty Years Later, Looking Back at ‘The Cigar’
July 12th, 2009
Mugshot of Carmine “The Cigar” Galante from 1943.The air was thick and the temperature had already shot up to the upper eighties by noon on Thursday, July 12th, 1979. It was another hot summer day in Brooklyn,…
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