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Joel Myers

  • Album Review:
    Sharon Van Etten’s Because I Was In Love

    From the first track of her album Because I Was In Love, Sharon Van Etten’s voice comes on with the kind of pure tone that till then I’d only heard when someone rubbed a wet finger along the rim of a wine glass. That pristine.

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  • Zombies Attack Ingraham Street!

    Has this ever happened to you? You’re drinking in a bar and Dawn of the Dead has been put up on a projector and is playing across the room with no sound…

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  • HBO’s Boardwalk Empire to Shoot in Bushwick

    Signs were posted on doors of a Meserole commercial space for filming in the area this week. According to the website, Boardwalk Empire will be a “major HBO production”…

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  • Hip Hybrid: Zukkies Mixes Bikes and Vintage


    Zukkies owner Mark Jacobowitz chilling on a Break from the Bike Shop. — Photos by Joel Myers

    Zukkies is an unlikely mix: part bike shop, part vintage store, both sides fully loaded with furniture, clothes and just about…

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  • Album Review: Binary Marketing Show’s Pattern

    The Binary Marketing Show, a group of four musicians originally hailing from the south and partly based out of Bushwick, has released a new CD that evidences some serious effort at an album, and one that really feels like an album all the way through…

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  • Lumenhouse Benefit Brings Bushwick Out in Force


    Spillover Crowd from the packed Lumenhouse Benefit. — Photo by Joel Myers

    This past Saturday, on one of the first blasts of warm weather we’ve seen since spring allegedly arrived, Bushwickers and visitors from around the city hit…

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  • Jeremy Danneman’s Parade of One


    Jeremy Danneman’s birthday parade winds through Stuyvesant Town with random skater kids in tow. — Photos by Joel Myers

    This year for his birthday, East Williamsburg resident Jeremy Danneman decided the typical party wasn’t enough for him. He wanted…

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  • Verbal Graffiti: Literally Old School Beats


    Guarco making ‘em move at Verbal Graffiti. — Photos by Joel Myers

    I walked in late, past the guy at the door who took 5 bucks from me and stamped a flower on my wrist, in through the…

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  • Abandoned TVs: A Bushwick Trademark?


    Televisions strewn around Bushwick. — Photos by Joel Myers

    I can almost hear how it would start if Seinfeld did standup about Bushwick. I mean, seriously, what is the deal with all those abandoned TVs? You walk by

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  • Boulevard Cafe Brings Class to Montrose


    The slick interior of the newly opened Boulevard Cafe. — Photo by Joel Myers

    When you’re walking past the string of bodegas and hair salons that line Bushwick Avenue, a slick new restaurant called Boulevard Cafe might not…

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