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Socially-Conscious Comedy Featuring Local Performers Comes to Starr Bar This Saturday

Socially-Conscious Comedy Featuring Local Performers Comes to Starr Bar This Saturday

The Stay Woke Comedy Show promises to make you laugh through a social justice lens.

An ACLU Fundraiser Comes to Bodega, and an Events Calendar Is Coming to Bushwick Daily!

An ACLU Fundraiser Comes to Bodega, and an Events Calendar Is Coming to Bushwick Daily!

Have there ever been so many ways to have a great time in the name of a great cause?

Knockdown Center Hosts Huge ‘Stay Nasty’ Festival to Help the Resistance Get Organized

Knockdown Center Hosts Huge ‘Stay Nasty’ Festival to Help the Resistance Get Organized

Music, art, comedy, and activism come together in a four day festival to give people options for how to get involved.

Your Ultimate Guide to New Year’s Eve Events in Bushwick and Beyond

Your Ultimate Guide to New Year’s Eve Events in Bushwick and Beyond

At Starr Bar, Your Drinks Help Fund Social Justice Initiatives In Bushwick And Beyond

At Starr Bar, Your Drinks Help Fund Social Justice Initiatives In Bushwick And Beyond

Bushwick Bark’s Fourth Annual Doggy Costume Party Is Coming Up at Pine Box Rock Shop

Bushwick Bark’s Fourth Annual Doggy Costume Party Is Coming Up at Pine Box Rock Shop

Celebrate Halloween in the cutest way possible while supporting a good cause at Bushwick Bark’s annual Doggy Costume Party.

Bushwick Residents Designed a Neighborhood Map for Housing Advocacy—Learn to Use it This Thursday!

Bushwick Residents Designed a Neighborhood Map for Housing Advocacy—Learn to Use it This Thursday!

The Bushwick Community Map integrates data from city records into an easily navigable resource for tenants and homeowners trying to stay abreast of changes to the neighborhood’s housing landscape.

Bushwick Will Represent at the Brooklyn Museum’s Anti-Gentrification and Displacement Forum Sunday

Bushwick Will Represent at the Brooklyn Museum’s Anti-Gentrification and Displacement Forum Sunday

The forum takes place on Sunday, July 24th, and will feature speakers, musical performances, and discussions followed by a march which ends at a picnic in Prospect Park.

Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

Supporting & Commemorating Orlando in Latinx, Queer Bushwick

This past weekend, the worst mass shooting executed by a single individual in United States history took place in Orlando, Florida at a gay, Latin nightclub, starting hours after Brooklyn’s Pride parade had ended and ending in a bloody standoff hours before New York City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade kicked off

Celebrate May Day at Bushwick’s MayDay Space!

Celebrate May Day at Bushwick’s MayDay Space!

Bushwick activism hub MayDay Space is getting ready to host a dynamic community day on the date it takes its name from

Brothers Behind Bushwick Coffee Shop Organize Fundraiser for Victims of DeKalb Ave Fire

Brothers Behind Bushwick Coffee Shop Organize Fundraiser for Victims of DeKalb Ave Fire

A local coffee shop owned by lifelong Bushwick residents has launched a fundraising effort to help the individuals who lost their homes in Tuesday night’s devastating blaze on DeKalb Avenue

2015: Ten Most Popular Articles on Bushwick Daily Based on Total Views

2015: Ten Most Popular Articles on Bushwick Daily Based on Total Views

Almost 2 millions of you, beloved readers, visited Bushwick Daily in 2015 (whoa!), and while last year’s most popular list was primarily dedicated to the Bushwick-loving celebrity, this year brought a greater variety in topics you enjoyed

Top 10 Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall (Basilica Soundscape, Sustain-Release, Lock’n & More!)

Top 10 Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall (Basilica Soundscape, Sustain-Release, Lock’n & More!)

Time flies, summer sizzles, and the F-bomb has been on the tongues of a lot of babes lately

Livestream, a Prominent Startup Headquartered in East Williamsburg Announced New CEO

Livestream, a Prominent Startup Headquartered in East Williamsburg Announced New CEO

Yesterday, Livestream, world’s leading video streaming startup headquartered in East Williamsburg, announced the appointment of Jesse Hertzberg as the company’s new CEO replacing Max Haot, a co-founder of Livestream in the function

Make History Too: Scoop Up $200 Art Work, Support Bushwick Open Studios and Other Worthy Causes

Make History Too: Scoop Up $200 Art Work, Support Bushwick Open Studios and Other Worthy Causes

400 artists; six walls; two rooms filled with their small works

Do Good in Bushwick: 10 Volunteer Organizations to Get Involved In

Do Good in Bushwick: 10 Volunteer Organizations to Get Involved In

When I was a kid, my mother made me volunteer at a local shelter every Christmas morning

#DoBushwick: “You Won’t Stop Dancing This Weekend” Edition

#DoBushwick: “You Won’t Stop Dancing This Weekend” Edition

“YOU SHOULD BE DANCING,” read a large, in-your-face billboard somewhere in Randomtown, NY when it hit me: “This is a message for me and I totally should be dancing

Maria Hernandez Who Gave the Name to Bushwick Park Was Shot in 1989 in the War on Drugs

Maria Hernandez Who Gave the Name to Bushwick Park Was Shot in 1989 in the War on Drugs

 

Live Porn Shoot or Porn Open Mic? Sure, Queer Porn Festival Is Going Down This Sunday

Live Porn Shoot or Porn Open Mic? Sure, Queer Porn Festival Is Going Down This Sunday

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Field Trip! Top 5 Art Getaways Within Reach of Bushwick

Field Trip! Top 5 Art Getaways Within Reach of Bushwick

Aah yes, Bushwick summer – a time where

Learning About Your Rights And How To Film the Cops

Learning About Your Rights And How To Film the Cops

For the next two Wednesdays, People’s Justice an anti-police brutality NYC organization will be hosting two related trainings: one for Know Your Rights and the other for Cop Watch

Go See Some Bushwick Pussy Power

Go See Some Bushwick Pussy Power

Ever heard of Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues? For those who love the script, missed out on the pop culture phenom, or any of you curious about the inner workings of a woman’s brain, fret not! Bushwick is getting its own dose of pussy power! Led by Meggie Schmidt, the Bushwick Vagina Monologues will be presented at Pinebox Rock Shop from April 5-7, 2013 and features a cast comprised of seasoned and rookie actresses who interpret the scripts as each woman would – differently

15 Qs with Chez Bushwick: Interdisciplinary Dance Space

15 Qs with Chez Bushwick: Interdisciplinary Dance Space

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Occupied in Bushwick: First General Assembly of 2012

Occupied in Bushwick: First General Assembly of 2012

By Brian Douglas