Archive for October, 2011
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At Panaderia Mexicana, Only the Name Is Generic
August 13th, 2009
Pastries at Panaderia Mexicana on Wyckoff. — Photos by Scarlett LindemanWhen Panaderia Mexicana is on your street, every tromp down Wyckoff Avenue is an exercise in restraint. Plumes of sugar-scented air hang onto the block as dense…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 8/12/09
August 12th, 2009This week I have ADD — I’ve just grabbed random apartments all around the neighborhood that speak to me in some way, whether it’s their price, appearance, or what have you.
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Heat Finally Arrives, Children Flood the Streets
August 11th, 2009
A fire hydrant near Evergreen and Menahan shoots up into the air like a geyser. — Photos by Diego CupoloIf there’s a single image that captures summertime in New York City it has to be children playing…
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Awkward: ‘Bouffon’ Show Works Hard for a Laugh
August 11th, 2009The “Bouffon Medicine Show” offered two hours of acts featuring “the grotesque, the manipulative, and the ever-charming,” culminating in a faith-healing bit that — ah, but you’ll have to drop a coin in the cup before you can hear more.
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Freelance Wasteland:
Ballad of the Accidental MaterialistAugust 10th, 2009Beauty Bar would be a hell of a lot more conducive to actually meeting people and having sex with them if the music was not always just loud enough to make conversation impossible…
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Bushwick Chic: ‘Chicks Are Beautiful’
August 10th, 2009Real punks are kind of a dying breed. So, when you see one wearing homemade pegged jeans, a custom leather jacket with coins sewn into the sleeves so it can double as a weapon, and a Dead Milkman hat worn backwards, it’s kind of refreshing.
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Residents Mass-Evicted on Broadway
August 6th, 2009More of our neighbors have been summarily evicted by stonefaced city bureaucracy, this time this morning at 889 Broadway…
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Schumer Backs Lopez Man Levin for Council
August 6th, 2009Vito Lopez’s Chief of Staff Steve Levin moved toward securing his front-runnership in the race for the 33rd City Council District…
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Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 8/6/09
August 6th, 2009Just when you think it’s all been done: conceptual hamburger art. That is only one of the many sparkling options before youin the Wick this weekend!
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Bushwick Artist Profile: Jerry Blackman
August 5th, 2009Although manufacturing may be disappearing in Bushwick, one manufacturer, artist Jerry Blackman, is still very much working with wood, plastics, and silicone resins to make his giant sculptures of two-dimensional objects.
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