Free Wifi Will Sell Other Things

Free Wifi is a bar and café soon to open at 42 Wilson….

Learning the Ropes at the House of Yes

Many of you know the House of Yes as a performance space at night. During the day, the space is a fully functioning school for aerial acrobatics and performance arts known as the SkyBox…

Handmade Fashion Co-Op Comes to Flushing

There’s a lot of handmade fashion in Bushwick. Now, there’s a new co-op boutique to sell it.

“I just want to help out my friends,” said Karin Persan, owner of Better Than Jam Handmade Co-Op, opening at The Loom on February 1st. With 13 designers of clothing, t-shirts, jewelry, and hats, Karin is using her sunny storefront space as a way to promote her friends’ work as well as her own designs.

STOREFRONT: Local Arts Org Goes Retail

With a large blue awning sporting a “PM TAXES” blaze and a curiously narrow storefront, Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown’s new gallery promises more.

Actually, Susan Hwang Doesn’t Like Zombies

I had the pleasure of talking to Susan Hwang, a talented singer/songwriter whom you may find hosting or singing at GBM or Northeast Kingdom on many an evening…

Green Fitness Studio Opens Dec. 21

Indoor Kids: the Green Fitness Studio opening party is finally happening on Monday the 21st; now you can wrestle with your demons on the elliptical machine instead of the streets…

By the Seats of Their Pants

19th Nervous Breakdown at Norte Maar. — Photo by Sarah Pappalardo

It isn’t everyday that a gallery show is provocative enough to inspire another show; with the help of some good friends and Norte Maar, curator Elliot…

Velo Brooklyn: Chicks, Bikes, and Bushwick

KT Higgins of Velo Brooklyn bike shop.

As I pet two curled-up, matching black cats, KT Higgins gets up to grab the ringing phone that sites in a pile of bike tools and unopened gear. “Bike Shop,” she…