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Folk and Frenzy at the Den
December 9th, 2009Friday night at the NK Den featured a folk revival trio and a quartet of rowdy self-professed misfits that would likely revel in being called immune to categorization…
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Free Swap? Score!
November 17th, 2009On the eve of Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays, the spirit of commune will find its way to 3rd Ward for a free-swap…
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Huge Group for 3rd Ward’s ‘Group Show’
October 20th, 2009Nothing like free booze to gather a crowd in Bushwick. I came up from the L at Morgan Ave Friday night to find myself distinctly not alone on the walk up to 3rd Ward…
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The L of Brooklyn Lore
October 13th, 2009
The L train. — Photo by Diego CupoloIn the wake of the last weekend’s disruptions, and the L’s chronic failure in general, Kevin Armento has penned a poem about that fabled line that traverses North Brooklyn.…
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Health Workers Anxious About Swine Flu Rule
October 1st, 2009
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center’s ER entrance on Stanhope Street. — Photo by Kevin ArmentoRoughly 200 people showed up at the state Capitol in Albany Tuesday to protest the recent state regulation mandating H1N1/Swine flu vaccinations for…
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A ‘Fresh’ Approach to Script Reading
September 8th, 2009As script readings go, both edges of the street tend to be perilous: often, these events end up being overly author-friendly, or overly audience-friendly…
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Troubled Assets: The Recession Suffuses Art
August 18th, 2009
The scene outside Factory Fresh’s “Brooklyn Bailout Burlesque.” Images courtesy of the gallery.The show must go on.
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Awkward: ‘Bouffon’ Show Works Hard for a Laugh
August 11th, 2009The “Bouffon Medicine Show” offered two hours of acts featuring “the grotesque, the manipulative, and the ever-charming,” culminating in a faith-healing bit that — ah, but you’ll have to drop a coin in the cup before you can hear more.
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From Bushwick, Bags for the World
July 28th, 2009A few months ago in this column I described a gig put on by Bags for the People. They called it a Sweatshop Social, and it was my first tango with a sewing machine…
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Lowbrow Calls It Like It Is
July 21st, 2009You think Bushwick, and so often your thoughts are intruded upon by words like "loft space," "gentrification," and — try as you may to fight it — "hipster."
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