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

It was a sad day this summer when beloved punk venue The Acheron closed—but there’s still plenty to do at the former address of the East Williamsburg punk hub.

Last week, proprietors of Ingraham Street bar Alaska made a sad announcement on their Facebook page: the bar will shutter its doors on July 3rd

This fall, the space formerly occupied by dark, dirty, loud, graffiti-covered dive bar Wreck Room which exemplified all we love about Bushwick, will be the next door neighbor to a new spot called Tiltz Sports Bar and Arcade

This spring, the owners of Bushwick’s beloved Cobra Club have opened the doors of their newest business venture: Sweet Jane’s! The dive bar in Ridgewood, just a block from the Fresh Pond Road M stop, opened up a little over three weeks ago but is already shaping up to be an instant-classic neighborhood joint

Remember Trash Bar? The divey-est of dive bars, the rock ‘n’ roll music venue in South Williamsburg with walls covered in stickers and lined with old car chair seats, and a bathroom that smelled unmistakably of piss? And remember mourning it when it closed last summer?

The Starliner, the newest bar located off Myrtle-Wyckoff is about to be your new favorite local bar

Bar-loving peeps, get at it.

If you did not make out with a stranger veiled from the drunk crowds by a smoke machine and a couple of green lasers, it’s like you haven’t even been young in Bushwick

By Solange Castellar and Maria Gotay

Have you walked past that closed down bar in Ridgewood on Harman St and Seneca Ave with the crazy neon signs and the blacked out windows thinking someone needs to do something with this place? You will thrilled to learn that hey, someone’s doing something with this place! Ridgewood resident, bartendress, and musician Laura Regan is fulfilling a longtime dream to finally open her own venue

The good days are not behind us

“Inclusive, not exclusive,” that is how David Poh describes his brand new Ridgewood bar, Milo’s Yard

There is a newcomer in the bar scene of the Bushwick-Ridgewood area

The diverse and expanding culinary landscape of Ridgewood is about to welcome a new eatery from an old favorite

Yesterday we informed you that the infamous annual bar crawl SantaCon has sent a letter to Bushwick bars announcing that this year’s drunk fest will be held in Bushwick on December 13

Whew, what a whirlwind summer! For those of you who managed to escape the concrete clutches of the city for a few months, the neighborhood might seem a little different now. There’s about a bazillion new places to get sloshed, and most of them serve food, too. Unfortunately, this summer also saw the demise of […]

This year has been a bad year for pool tables I have known

In 2007 co-directors Kae Burke and Anya Sapozhnikova launched their DIY space in Ridgewood, self-described as a “hippie- punk squat house,” named House of Yes

Your last name doesn’t have to be Johnson in order to feel welcomed at this new Bushwick bar

Batman and Robin

Kings County, a small, dark dive bar on Seigel and Bogart, is organizing a rather unusual event – New York’s Smallest Penis Contest

Silent Barn has just announced an Aftermath Class series to accompany their Aftermath Supplies art supplies store, yet another example of how prosperous the new DIY music venue and community space is shaping out to be! These classes – which are quite affordable and run every, or every other, Wednesday evening – act as introductions to a whole realm of skills and trades, from bike repairs to drumming!

A little further out and a quick hop to the JMZ line, and the available nightlife starts to expand beyond the typical Brooklyn dive bars

Now that we’re a bit deeper into Bushwick, it takes a little more work (and a little more walking) to reach great bars

Whether you’ve jumped the turnstiles (not recommended, but we get it) or pony’d up for one last $104 monthly MetroCard before the fare hikes in March, the next L stop on this Drink & Ride gets you to Morgan – previously only a name you associated with girls who played high school field hockey

From dive bar to dreamy brunch spot.

Big changes are on the horizon for Duncan’s Burgers: the late night burger delivery service has teamed up with one of Bushwick’s favorite dive bars! Last Wednesday, Duncan’s officially began serving up burgers in the front room of The Johnson’s on Troutman St, just off the Jefferson L

Do you remember when the diviest of all Bushwick dive bars, Wreck Room, announced its demise back in June 2014? An unfortunate side casualty was the closure of Arancini Bros next door, a popular purveyor of deep fried risotto balls that tasted especially good after a long night of partying and drinking in Bushwick

The internet raved in June when popular Lower East Side dive bar Welcome to the Johnson’s announced the opening of their offshoot location in Bushwick