Archive for October, 2011

• Bushwick Music: Interview with Electric Sunset

  August 11th, 2010

  Electric Sunset is the new solo project for Nicolaas Zwart, formerly of the band Desolation Wilderness. DW specialized in dreamy, reverbed guitar pop…

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• Lopez Uses Big Hammer on Small Opponents

  August 11th, 2010
  
  Lifelong Williamsburg resident and Community Board 1 member Esteban Duran is running for District Leader in the 53rd Assembly District. Unfortunately for him, his opponent is Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who is also the incumbent and does not like

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• Bushwick Book Club Just Minds Its Qs

  August 10th, 2010

  Long before crooner Justin Remer invites me into an imaginative five-some for a “real sexy time,” it is evident that the Bushwick Book Club is not to be taken literally…

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• Talking Trash in a Hut

  August 10th, 2010

  Artist Jill Sigman has opened her studio to the public for her Hut project, which involves constructing a series of huts out of found and discarded materials…

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• Code of Arms: Oddboy

  August 9th, 2010
  
  An installation at the 24-hour FreaKKout party thrown by Kostume Kult. Photo by Sergio Alvarez.

  Picture King Kong waddling to the half step, his giant belly bouncing like Rick Ross to the wobbles on a dancefloor…

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• ‘Orphanage’ Keeps Vintage Mopeds on the Road

  August 9th, 2010
  
  Customers check out mopeds at Orphanage Mopeds on Thames Street at The Loom. — Photo by Sarah Pappalardo

  I may be married to my bicycle, but there is another moving object of envy on the streets of Bushwick:…

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• The Beets Playing the Beatles at OK Prom

  August 6th, 2010

  

  Whether your high school prom was a magical night to remember or a horror you’d choose to forget, Shea Stadium is offering you the opportunity to relive those memories or replace them with better ones.

  OK Prom is recreating…

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• Rooftop Benefit Show Saturday on Cook Street

  August 6th, 2010

  After a few unpleasantly hot days and the constant, empty threat of thunderstorms, Saturday is supposed to sun shiny and pleasantly warm. Sounds like the perfect afternoon to go to a roof concert.

  A benefit concert will be held on…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 8/6/10

  August 6th, 2010

  Apologies for my delay this week. I was on one of those really special trips that make you sad to be going home no matter how much you love it…

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• Ninjasonik: Hipster — No, Comedy — Rap

  August 6th, 2010

  Ninjasonik, a party rap trio with roots in Bushwick, recently performed at South Street Seaport and got the crowd so excited that they started a riot…

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