Northside Festival came and went this past week, along Saturday’s stifling hot weather

This weekend, the annual Northside Festival will take acrossNorth Brooklyn

New York City’s premier porn festival, which launched last year at Bushwick’s Secret Project Robot, will hold its second annual event during the first weekend in June at a new space in East Williamsburg

An anonymous organization called the Bushwick Arts Festival set up a website and Facebook page at the end of February—and immediately found itself at the center of a controversy

The Bushwick Film Festival is baaaaaack!

Secret Project Robot is not a gigantic warehouse that you might imagine to find in other parts of Bushwick, but rather a modest, bar-equipped and almost cozy venue

Image of Stop Patriarchy protesting in Texas. Courtesy of David Thomas and BITCH magazine. It turns out that NYC Porn Festival, to be held this weekend in the very liberal Bushwick will gain some controversy after all. And we’re not talking about Miley Cyrus submitting and subsequently withdrawing from her short and very soft bondage film. A group […]

Have you ever felt, while slouched on your bed with your more skillful hand down your pj’s, that the porn you are watching deserves a festival?

Guys, cancel all your commitments, change the location of your dates, tell your mom you can’t see her next weekend (sorry!) because this coming week (October 2-5) officially belongs to Bushwick Film Festival (BFF)! Huge celebration of domestic as well as international indie cinema is happening in your neighborhood, and you as a proper Bushbaby should not miss this!

Let’s face it—the citizens of Bushwick don’t live in a bubble

Last weekend a crew of Brooklynites hoofed it approximately 2

Oh, Detroit! With your sprouting art scene, amazing yet abandoned mansions, eerie industrial sites but perhaps the most importantly– with your atmosphere of new beginnings, hope and community. How can a Brooklynite even begin to start approaching the Motor City and finding out about its creative community? Well, one way is to get on the […]

If you’re like us and you loooooove music festivals, you may be quietly shedding tears over the (impending) arrival of fall and the end of festival season

Our favorite night of art, drinks, and revelry in Bushwick is back, and it’s back with a vengeance! Next Friday, February 28, marks the return of Jason Andrew and Norte Maar’s Beat Nite

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You may have heard about the Brain-Cave Festival, a local music festival going on next weekend in Greenpoint

Last weekend the Brooklyn Funk Fest at the Paper Box lit up Bushwick

Text by Therese Maher

By Therese Maher and Maria Gotay

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By Jacqueline Mabey

Year 2011 was colorful and eventful

All-volunteer organization Arts in Bushwick is promising a lot of fun and performance art this weekend in our beloved neighborhood. Performance artists, dancers and musicians will offer a condensed, two-day sampling of work at five hub spaces and a number of satellite venues. Make sure to pick up your map today, they are all over […]

“It’s not about a ceasefire or not about not a ceasefire”

Scenes of rock and roll at Ridgewood Presbyterian

“Avant Gardner has made a lot of money from the gays,” a lawyer warns.

How a flurry of small businesses are changing a corner of Queens

Why a former Democracy Now war correspondent opened the Starr Bar in Bushwick

The latest video showcase at Club Video hit this month

“They patronize us and we patronize them”

In advance of NYFW, we’re looking at some of the hottest local names and brands to look out for

Tinashe, Shygirl, Vanessa Vanjie and a cannon of condoms explode in Bushwick

Redistricting moves and scatters a heated political race, while Elizabeth Crowley has committed to moving within the borders of wherever it is she ends up representing.

A doggy daycare has opened near the Myrtle-Wyckoff station, with a goal of hiring adults with autism.

A ‘mobile cinema’ collective with revolutionary aims rolls into Brooklyn

Yvette Keong, Sarah Cahill and Nicole Cloutier are among those playing this month at the Box Factory, part of a series of concerts focused on tacking gender equity