Archive for October, 2011

• Cops Flood Bushwick Trains to Halt Robberies

  March 18th, 2011
  
  
  A Transit Police officer patrols at Broadway Junction Friday morning. Photo by Jonathan Mena for BushwickBK

  NYPD Transit Police have increased their presence along the L and M lines in Bushwick after a spike of snatch-and-run robberies at…

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• Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: Mar ’11

  March 18th, 2011
  
  
  Taxi Commissioner David Yassky talks at CB4 about legalizing street pick-ups for car services in outer boroughs. Photo by Aaron Short for BushwickBK

  6:30 PM The Hope Gardens Community Center is festively decorated with emerald-green streamers and glitter…

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• Man Killed by Vehicle at Myrtle-Broadway

  March 18th, 2011
  
  
  A man lays dead at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway this morning after being hit by a vehicle. Photo by Belkis Carrasco for BushwickBK

  At 7:12am today a man was struck and killed by a…

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• Bushwick Culture Weekly Picks 3/17/11

  March 17th, 2011
  

  

  It’s that magical limbo time of year when you’re never quite sure how to dress but don’t really care cuz spring is almost upon us.  Personally I’m daydreaming about much less time spent on that train & tons more…

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• Phantogram Film Video at Brooklyn Fire Proof

  March 17th, 2011

  Up-State electr-rock duo Phantogram had their song “When I’m Small” featured on the pilot of MTV’s adaptation of the teen melodrama Skins last month (if you’re willing to admit that you recognized the song, we’re willing to…

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• Feedback Mayhem at Silent Barn

  March 16th, 2011
  Excerpt from a DVD installation by Jeff Donaldson

  When an event is listed as “No Input Mixing Board Feedback Mayhem Fest,” it can easily be deduced that there is going to be noise. Lots of noise.

  Friday’s…

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• Diversity in a Sea of Bass

  March 15th, 2011
  
  Archie Pelago’s recent introductory performance.

  Bass music these days is as diverse a style of music that could ever be, even as the definition of dubstep has recently become so constricted in the public’s eye. It ranges from…

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• Calypso: No Man is an Island

  March 15th, 2011
  

  Last Thursday with its inch of rain was not an evening for casual outings, but three factors drew us out to hear the “audio play” Calypso at STOREFRONT.

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• Boar’s Head Wants One-Way Bogart Street

  March 14th, 2011
  
  
  Could car-truck-pedestrian friction be eased by a one-way designation for Bogart Street?
  Photo by Jeremy Sapienza for BushwickBK

  Busy Bogart Street could soon become a one-way thoroughfare — thanks to the country’s largest provider of smoked deli meats…

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• Mikey Dubs: Aroma of Techy Amor

  March 11th, 2011
  

  Synths recalling the fragrance of mysterious ’80s desire ground Mikey Dubs‘s most recent excursion in sonic searching. This track takes the form of tech house with the addition of the garagey syncopation Dubs is known for.…

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