Gif by Katarina Hybenova

A couple of days ago we informed you that prominent Bushwick-based artist Jules de Balincourt announced on his Facebook that he is attempting to form an “organization bringing [B]ushwick artist[s] together to form a collective of sorts in which artist buy buildings together in order to prevent what happened in Williamsburg….the tearing down of old buildings to be replaced by Miami look alike condos for suit and tie types who have nothing invested in the local creative community.”

A noble effort that will hopefully soon be followed by positive results for the housing of existing Bushwick community quickly sprang into action. Jules has invited anyone interested to join him tonight at his Starr Space (108-10 Starr St, Bushwick) from 7-9PM to “discuss strategies to keep our stake in Bushwick. If you’re an artist and you want to stay in New York, come join us.”

Unfortunately, Jules’ meeting coincides with Bushwick’s Community Board 4 meeting at 6PM at 195 Linden St, which will also address some important questions before its summer adjournment. CB 4 will discuss rezoning of a yard and other adjacent parcels to build a 900-unit residential complex, which requires a change in the zoning from M1 to R6.

So we guess that if you’re feeling your civic duties today, you will try to make it to the both meetings. Maybe in the future Jules’ initiative and Community Board 4 can join forces in this battle for a cause that is vital to both communities of artists and long-term residents.

Anne Hathaway (photo via Wikimedia Commons)

A few tents set up outside of veteran Bushwick venue Goodbye Blue Monday on Tuesday night indicated that there might be a film shoot going on. Passersby with good timing may have caught a glimpse of a rain poncho-clad, surprisingly short but totally beautiful, Anne Hathaway on break outside. It’s likely that the shoot was part of Song One, in which Hathaway plays an archaeologist who returns home from a dig when her brother ends up in a coma; she then strikes up a relationship with aforementioned brother’s favorite musician.

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The Bushwick Beer Garden Paul Nicholson. All images by Renee Ligtvoet.

In this edition of BUSHWICK CRIBZ, photographer Renee Ligtvoet and I are bringing you summertime in the city. This means we hopped around Bushwick scoping out local residents’ backyards, and finding out just how they use them. I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t have an outdoor space aside from a crusty rooftop with New York Shitty views (haha). So it was cool to check out these yards and hear their stories. Let’s take it away!

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From the Bushwick Restaurant Week website

You are likely an avid reader of Bushwick Daily’s Food & Drink section and you therefore know all there is to know about Bushwick eateries, so the simple fact that there is a Bushwick Restaurant Week won’t impress you. What you really want to know is: What are the most special of the special offers out there?! With you in mind, we compiled this awesome guide to what to expect during Bushwick Restaurant Week:

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It was about time that a Bushwick resident got to fake his/her own TED Talk. And who would be more suitable for this task than our favorite Bushwick (via London via Israel) prankster, Nimrod Kamer, whose outstanding record of pranks includes a fake Obama birth in Kenya filmed on an iPad, and his project of unfollowing celebrities on Twitter and explaining his reasons to their face?

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Happy owner of Collections LucyAnn (all photos by Katarina Hybenova)

Fashionable Bushwick crowd, we have great news for you! CollectionsBK, a little San Francisco-style boutique opened on 16A Wilson Ave (right next to Storefront Bushwick gallery), and it won’t ruin your wallets. (more…)

‘Crassulas’ by Arielle Falk on view at Auxiliary Projects. (all photos by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily)

Despite the title, don’t expect too much fresh air. Arielle Falk’s solo show Breathe In, Breathe In opened this past Friday at Auxiliary Projects, and posed some questions about the continual pressure to bring new products into our lives and the lack of fulfillment these new products bring.

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Brooklyn Bike Patrol shut down after its founder Jay Ruiz suffered a heart attack [Gotthamist]

The owners of a loft-law building on Thames first hired a motocycle gang to harass their tenants, now they want to open a restaurant [DNAinfo]

SHADE, a massive warehouse party photographed by PaperMag [PaperMag]

A women puts bullet through her boyfriend’s head; he fells in love even more and refuses to testify. That’s a true Brooklyn romance. [NY Post]

Northside Festival, Brooklyn’s answer to SXSW, isn’t just music. There will also be over fifty films shown around Williamsburg and Greenpoint, including multiple world premiers starting today! If you want to see movies about couch surfing (Wisdom Teeth), a Christian transgender teen living in the rural South (Radical Love), the theories of Ray Kurzweil told through cinematic tweets in a satirical sci-fi pop musical (#PostModem), the sociological evolution of pet-owning (FUREVER), a boy who breaks into slaughterhouses to rescue chickens (Skin and Bones), the story of an aging puppet seeking its lost love (Unstrung), the enigmatic life of plants and the people who love them (Other Voices), a superhero who, after vanquishing his nemesis, finds himself directionless after the action is over (Epilogue), then Northside Film Festival is for you.

Here are five must-see films premiering at the Northside Festival this week:

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Photo for Bushwick Daily by Renee Ligtvoet.

Dziadzi (For My Grandfather)

By Natalie Gergich

sometimes I go down to the cellar
and I am awed
by the cold and dusty domain of mason jars fur coats plastic bouquets.
they sit on shelves with sad anticipation, dormant as forever through the mild months of May and June
when I would pick agrest and bring the berries to the turquoise kitchen.
Dziadzi would notice the pink of pride in my eight year old cheeks, smile and wink one of his watery blue eyes.

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