Archive for October, 2011
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Q&A With Assembly Candidate Rafael Espinal
June 21st, 2011
There’s a high-profile job open for Bushwick residents — but you have to knock on a lot of doors to get it.
Bushwick Assemblyman Darryl Towns resigned three months ago to take a commissioner’s position in the Cuomo administration, but Governor…
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Matt Shadetek Brings the Quantum Heat
June 20th, 2011
If there was ever a reason to venture out on a Tuesday night, a good one might be to catch Matt Shadetek‘s first Bushwick performance (as far as anyone can recall). Shadetek, co-founder of the Dutty Artz…
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Make Music New York in Bushwick
June 20th, 2011
Make Music New York is back and venues across Bushwick are participating in Tuesday’s city-wide music festival. Performers from all genres will be setting up in the usual haunts, public parks, and private spaces opened for the occasion. You can…
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Pages From the First Inkjet Printer
June 20th, 2011
Tucked in behind Little Skips on a stub of a street called Charles Place, Microscope Gallery will have been open nine months as of this weekend, but by all appearances the wildly multimedia little artist-run space is just warming up its act.…
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Old Glory – In Detail
June 20th, 2011
The American flag is a symbol that means different things to different people, often confined to extreme opinions. Many hold it up alongside their gods with blind faith. Others burn it as if it were a bedspread masking the devil.…
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345 Eldert Tenants Allowed Back In – Slowly
June 20th, 2011
After half the tenants of 345 Eldert Street — some 150 people — were summarily ejected from their homes last week, some are starting to trickle back into their units.
345 Eldert is a legally converted loft building, but was…
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Dog Nearly Blinded After Neighbor Shoots Her With Paintballs
June 18th, 2011
An angry neighbor nearly blinded a couple’s dog after shooting up their yard with a paintball gun.
“I heard the tat-tat-tat-tat and then my dogs started crying,” said Pete Wojcik about the Wednesday morning attack on his two pitbulls, Baby…
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Bushwick Music Review: Neon Dynamite
June 17th, 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.
’70s fashion is making a comeback, so it’s…
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Bushwick Community Board ‘Live’: June ’11
June 17th, 2011
Bushwick children were playing in the street after work, holding impromptu barbecues in their courtyards, and popping fire hydrants to stay cool Wednesday afternoon.
But inside the Hope Gardens Senior Center, the neighborhood’s community leaders got down to business…
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Megan Jolly Shoots Electronic Producers
June 17th, 2011
During a tour of the studios above The Loom during Bushwick Open Studios, I stumbled onto Megan Jolly‘s brightly lit studio, where I met a wall full of portraits featuring a number of New York’s female electronic music producers.…
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