I find myself on a double narration as I tell my Bushbabies about the story of art ahead of us. From works inspired by the famous musings of authors James Joyce and Dylan Thomas, to pieces that draw literary connections from personal histories and present happenings. You’ll drift off to your dreams as I read […]

By Loren DiBlasi & Maria Gotay

Mellow Pages, the beloved open-source library and reading room located on the first floor of 56 Bogart, needs your help: founders Jacob Perkins and Matt Nelson are asking their community to support the space with a newly launched Indiegogo campaign while the Mellow Pages gang figures out its next steps

It’s been a real week here in Bushwick already, friends

Feeling like you need a little more poetry in your life? Or just looking for something both cool and smart to do this Sunday night? Then make sure to check out the launch party for the Pine Box Reading Series this upcoming Sunday, October 13th at Mellow Pages, one of our beloved Bushwick bookstores

By Allison Galgiani & Katarina Hybenova

Not too long ago DNAinfo praised Bushwick for its bookshop greatness, even going so far as to call Bushwick a literary mecca (ooh lala, well thank you!)

Do you sometimes suffer from Cabin Fever?? If so, you should hop on a train and check out how Bushwick creatives are taking their talents outside the hood this Saturday

Historically, there has been a distinct separation between media and genres of art – the beaux arts tradition imported from the Grande Academie of Paris, from which American art institutions were derived, maintained clear boundaries between the plastic, performing, and literary arts – whoa, I’ll stop there before I go off on an art historical tangent! While these boundaries have been questioned, challenged and straight up abolished during multiple decades and artistic movements, no better example of the line being blurred could be found than in Bushwick’s art events this week

Have you heard? Tropical system Andrea is headed towards us threatening us with flash floods on Friday morning through Saturday afternoon, says The National Weather Service

The art scene in Bushwick is as unique and diverse as its residents

When Robert Semple, host of The Bodega Monthly Reading Series at Bushwick’s The Bodega wine bar, talks about his performers or discusses how he puts the show together each month, you might mistake him for a smooth talking agent raving about the next big thing

When Nyssa Frank, owner of the Living Gallery, noticed that Bushwick bookstores were cropping up like dandelions (Mellow Pages, Molasses, and Human Relations, to name a few) she began to wonder how best to bring these very different bookstores into conversation with one another

Who wouldn’t love good ol’ printed literary journals that give a dose of nostalgia, and make you want to thumb thorough their pages and inhale the smell of the paper

If I said ‘jingles’ last week, I have to say JINGLES this week

To have a normal weekend feels really precious these days

By Katarina Hybenova 

By Katarina Hybenova

By Maria Pylayev

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By Maria Modrovich