Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick Music: Interview with Blind Man’s Color
July 27th, 2010Bands come and go. Especially these days: the web makes you simultaneously want to download a million albums a day and throw your hard drive out the window…
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Popsickle Festival: Sweat and Poetry
July 27th, 2010Popsickle brands itself as the first festival of its kind in the borough’s north, but the component parts are hardly new. It’s a joint venture of a half dozen local reading series…
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My Idiot Brother Filming in Morgan Area
July 27th, 2010Mainstream-indie dream queen, Zooey Deschanel was on location in the Morgan-stop area filming My Idiot Brother with Paul Rudd and Rashida Jones.
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In Photos: Summer Streets on Knickerbocker
July 26th, 2010A little rain refused to dampen spirits of revelers out at the return of Summer Streets on Knickerbocker Avenue.
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Procedure Club: straight outta Slumberland
July 26th, 2010
Most bands are much more coy about mixing noise and melody compared to newcomers Procedure Club, straight outta the musical hotbed that is New Haven, CT. But the band, made up of a girl who only goes by…
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Bushwick Cooks: Summer Cocktails
July 26th, 2010
I love our neighborhood restaurant, Roberta’s, without reservation. I can always think of an excuse to make my way there — for lunch with an out of town visitor, for Tuesday night dinner with friends, for Sunday night…
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WORK: Steve the Old Soul
July 23rd, 2010Meet Steve. He owns Goodbye Blue Monday–a coffeehouse, performance space and a repository for “stuff” collected over the years. In the 80s, he owned Scrap Bar on Bleecker and MacDougal, where stars would misbehave and Hell’s Angels acted as…
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The Evil That Men Do
July 22nd, 2010Let’s get into some classic hip hop today. One of the bonds that originally held together the various acts of the Boot Camp Clik was DJ Evil Dee. Homie’s from the neighborhood and did much of…
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Recommended Show: Aa at Silent Barn
July 22nd, 2010
Image by Tod Seelie.Good beats are a rare thing, good beats from compelling performers are rarer still. Aa basically takes what’s good about most dance tracks and plays it live instead of off…
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Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 7/22/10
July 22nd, 2010This summer is flying by — can you believe it’s almost the end of July? It’s another busy one this week. Lots of music, theater, dance and a literary festival to boot!
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