Bushwick DIY Takes Wall Street

Last week drummer Greg Fox, a departing member of breakout Bushwick-based metal band Liturgy, was preparing to finish up his last few gigs with the band and head in a different musical direction with a new project. Then an unexpected…

A Hindu Temple Returns to Its Bushwick Roots

Bushwick’s religious landscape contains everything from hex-busting Botánicas to a hipster Chabad; it’s hard to be surprised by any house of worship here. But walking down Stanhope Street from Irving Avenue to Wyckoff Avenue, it’s still arresting to see a saffron-orange…

Harvest Time at High School Farm

It’s Friday evening, and a sudden chill in the air is bringing in a change of season. Most city-dwellers take this as a cue to start shopping for a coat and maybe pop out the window A/C; not many think…

September 11th Memorial Art in Bushwick

Now that the fear-fest is mostly over in Manhattan, we can at least get back to honest rememberance of those killed on 9/11, if not those killed after.

In the months following the attack on the…

thisisitisthisit: a Lecture on Nowhere

The Bushwick Starr has brought us nothing if not variety, and assures the same in their just announced 2011-2012 season. But first, through their new Propeller Project (kicking off the season with "new works by artists we believe in"), the Starr…

Doe Fund Cleans Streets and Lives

When William Black lost his job and his apartment last year, it looked like the first chapter of an all-too-familiar story of homelessness in a time of recession. A native New Yorker who had moved to New Jersey for work,…

Now Playing: The You Trilogy

You probably haven’t been able to miss the red and green posters around town for The You Trilogy, an episodically and electronically released set of audio tales by writer Paul Rome. Uploaded monthly, the concluding piece went online on Monday…

Opening a Portal from New York to Sydney

If a Sydney artist took a wrong turn while looking for a Newtown gallery and suddenly found herself on Bogart Street, how disoriented would she be?

Art as a global scene isn’t just for a jet-setting elite any more, now…

Ridgewood’s Museum of Garbage

We all know that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but it’s less well known that the other man is named Nick DiMola and lives in Ridgewood. 

Nick runs DiMola Bros., a rubbish removal and interior demolition company…

Bushwick Fruit Vendor Accused of Joining In 4 Train Beating

A gang beating and robbery in a Bronx subway car may have involved a Bushwick fruit vendor who is accused of joining into the attack just for kicks. The man’s lawyer, however, says it’s a clear case of mistaken identity.…