Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 1/6/11
January 6th, 2011Happy New Year, Bushwick! What a wild end to the year. I see amazing things for all of us in 2011 — it’s going to be a good one!
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Bushwick Music Review: Toytrain
January 6th, 2011
Each week we’ll highlight a different song by a Bushwick band or artist we like. If you would like to have your band’s song considered, you can submit an MP3 here.
No one really takes Auto-Tune seriously. It’s just…
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NYE 2010: Chicago’s DJ Rashad Jukes Bushwick
January 5th, 2011Juke, a genre of music characterized by drum machine beats, chopped vocal samples, and a blistering tempo of 160 BPM, is a sound popularized by Chicago’s…
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Fire Rages at Meadow St. Warehouse
January 5th, 2011Witnesses report a fire between an apartment building on Stagg Street and a warehouse on Meadow Street.
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Total Slacker, Phone Tag Play Benefit for Friends
January 5th, 2011
Photo of Friends by Erez AvissarAlt-pop bands unite at Shea Stadium Friday night for a benefit for Friends. The Brooklyn band are leaving on tour and are playing one last NYC show before their return…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 1/5/11
January 5th, 2011And we’re back in a new year, and sourcing exclusively from the Bushwick Classifieds! $1300-$1750 for a range of product and locations, and I threw in a beautiful roommate situation.
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NYE 2010: A Liberating Celebration
January 4th, 2011
The midnight scene at Sound Liberation Front. — Photo from the organization’s Facebook.As Treasure Don took over the mic, an intimate crowd danced in front of me while I enjoyed a heaping plate of soul food,…
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Botánicas: Laboratories of Faith
January 4th, 2011The line between commerce and religion are seldom less clear than in Bushwick’s many botánicas, dealers in ritual goods and services, laboratories of religious syncretism.
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Bushwick Left Out of Newtown Cleanup Goodies
January 4th, 2011
Gov. Cuomo announces the benefits for Greenpoint and Long Island City from the monies won in recent pollution settlements. But can he see a future in which Bushwick’s part of Newtown Creek is cleaned up? Photo by Aaron…
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NYE 2010: Martyn’s Saturday Night House
January 3rd, 2011
Martyn. — Image from Resident Advisor.Martyn gained international attention when his Great Lengths LP dropped last year. The album was a unique take on dubstep; with its warm, charismatic sounds layered over a fusion of the genre…
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