This is a good week to be alive! The official lineup for the first annual Holy Smokes! Music & Arts Festival has just been announced, and we’re psyched! Taking place at the much-loved Silent Barn on Sunday, September 8th, Bushwick Daily has joined collaborative forces and resources with the band The Bottom Dollars for this all day event, and co-curated a star lineup with more artists to be unveiled soon

By Maria Gotay & Loren DiBlasi

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Can we all agree that these warmly fresh days are the best time of the year? Let’s enjoy it out in the open air with friends, beer, and good literature and music

There is something magical about the First Law of Thermodynamics

Text by Hilary Lamb + Photos by Alexandra Uzik

By Katarina Hybenova

By Therese Maher and Maria Gotay

Text and photos by Maria Gotay

Take a look around, Bushwick

Back-to-School? Pshhh

A highlight from last month’s Bushwick Film Festival was a debut feature from a Brooklyn dance director.

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

“They sell genuinely good earplugs”

The world’s largest drag and queer music festival recently hit nearby Queens.

A new comedy club pops off in East Williamsburg

A new documentary chronicles the “dirty gospel” of the Bushwick Abbey’s Vince Anderson.

Bands get ready to compete for a $5,000 prize on the roof of Our Wicked Lady.

Local bars and drinkers rejoice, while environmentalists offer tips on how to reduce potential single-use litter.

After going digital last year, the Bushwick Open Studios annual art walk returns this month.

This year’s block party will have street artists painting murals on location, live performances, hand-selected food trucks, a merchant market and more.

The nonprofit’s new multimillon-dollar art space is set to open to the public in East Williamsburg on Saturday, July 10.

Brooklyn Made will feature live performances by Jeff Tweedy, Steve Earle, Whitney, Guided by Voices and many others.

Elsewhere has started airing a new virtual variety show on Twitch once a month. Upcoming artists include Starchild & The New Romantic and NYC mayoral candidate Paperboy Love Prince.

Gordo’s executive chef, Mexico City native Reyna Morales, is a 25-year veteran of the industry; her food is evidence both of abundant experience and intimate knowledge of her country’s cuisine.