Archive for October, 2011

• Hey, Bushwick! Is Happiness a Choice?

  December 10th, 2010

  The pursuit of happiness is written as one of America’s three inalienable rights, right up there with life and liberty. I’ve read that one’s happiness is partially hardwired by genetics, partially shaped by circumstance, and the rest is a…

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• Tiki Hut Closes, Two Broadway Eateries Expand

  December 10th, 2010
  
  The space once occupied by failed business Hibachi Tiki Hut has been taken over by an Ecuadoran dress shop, as the Poblano restaurant next door expands. Photo by Lucy Butcher for BushwickBK

  After just one year of operation,…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 12/9/10

  December 9th, 2010

  

  Whatever mood you’re in this week, Bushwick will happily oblige (Morning Aztec Dance Ceremony included).  Lots of wonderful almost-freezing weather activities abound:  art panel discussions and openings, movie-watching parties, a new opera, and a little bondage to heat things…

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• Tydrus Dreams in Black and White

  December 9th, 2010

  By day, Pretty Boy is a slow-witted punk with no future in Middle Georgia. But when he’s passed out on whiskey by night, he becomes his own tragic hero…

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• At 3rd Ward, Junk Turned Into Art

  December 9th, 2010

  Artists displayed their latest works, including handbags made out of parachutes, clocks made from old typewriters, and even soap bars with litter inside them…

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• Hard Nips Release EP, Pelt Audience with Candy

  December 8th, 2010

  

  Let’s address this band’s name and then move swiftly on: Nippon is the formal, native name of Japan, and the all-Japanese line-up of Hard Nips are having fun with wordplay.

  Last night was the release party for Hard…

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• U SAY USA: The Sound of Empire Crumbling

  December 8th, 2010
  A crowd gathers to listen to U SAY USA play at this past summer’s McKibbin Street Fair.
  Photo by Dan Gill for BushwickBK.

  What is the sound of Empire crumbling?  

  The clue is in the name. The…

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• Hip Hanukkah: Bushwick Chabad Keeps Growing

  December 8th, 2010
  
  A Corona-bottle menorah at Bushwick Chabad’s recent Hanukkah service.
  Photo by Aaron Short for BushwickBK

  Rabbi Menachem Heller knew that his Bushwick Chabad, tucked into a tiny Flushing Avenue storefront at The Loom, was going to be…

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• The Wildest Arbor Day for 100 Years

  December 7th, 2010

  The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery brings all the joys of browsing the Mid-Manhattan picture collection right to your screen, without the subway ride or shelves of un-hyperlinked manila folders.

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• ‘Little Supermarket’ Opens on Broadway

  December 7th, 2010
  
  Kyungae Maria Kim womans the counter at Ohana Mart, which opened recently near the Kosciuszko J stop. Photos by Lucy Butcher for BushwickBK

  A perfectly appointed grocery store, stocked with fresh produce and groceries with a focus on West Indian and…

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