Most of the time, if you tell people that you are going to Bossa Nova Civic Club, they think that you are either going to a cool Bossa Nova trio performance or that you belong to an old-school boys’ club that would require you to wear a suit jacket. After that initial confusion, you are burdened with the task of explaining just what Bossa Nova Civic Club is. In Bushwick, of course, of many of us know that Bossa Nova is a place that defies description. I felt the same way about the Flamingo….

