This past Sunday, March 20th, was the official first day of Spring! The bar and restaurant scene of Bushwick is ever-changing, growing, and evolving, and this winter was a big season for that: now that the spring season is officially here and warmer days are imminent, let’s take a look back and see what new places opened this winter—they may well turn out to be your spring and summertime go-to spots

It truly has been a mild winter so far. A few cold spells – but for the most part we shouldn’t complain. Even so, we’ve all been there – a Friday night in January … contemplating whether to ‘brace the elements’ or to binge-watch the entire Making of a Murderer series. Although the latter is […]

[UPDATE: Please read editor’s note regarding the use of 2000 Census Data in this article and an attached apology

We’ve all been there: endlessly browsing Craigslist for hours to no end out of pure boredom or procrastination

Only a few years ago, Rockaway Beach was a desert when it came to exciting cuisine, leaving visitors to lug heavy ice chests from home or snag something uninspired from a boardwalk cart

Give the best gift this Father’s Day with booze books

By Whitney Jordan & Katarina Hybenova

If you weren’t at Fine & Raw’s midday Waffle Party this weekend, you did Saturday wrong

Photos courtesy of Fine & Raw. This Saturday. Waffle Party. Fine & Raw Chocolate Factory. Need we say more? In case you need more info, the fine folks at Fine & Raw are hosting an end-all, be-all waffle brunch at their digs at 288 Seigel Street this Saturday from noon until 6pm. Which means even […]

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Most of us feverishly love or dull-heartedly dread Valentine’s Day

This week’s Listening Party features Pennsylvania soul-rock group The Districts

Now is the winter of our discontent

Jeremy Paredes, Claire Coget and Catherine Alvarez are the amazing team behind At The Brickyard, which is a monthly, invitation-only dinner party located at the backyard of an apartment in Bushwick

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I got this invite a few weeks ago and could tell right away it was totally up my alley: SINGLE AND LOOKING, ArtHelix, 56 Bogart Street, March 12-27, 2013

If you layered some jazz basslines, wandering funk harmonies, and modern keys in an indie rock setting, you’d end up with something like the wonderful band Throw Vision

By Katarina Hybenova and Maria Gotay

Do you know the power of ritual? The modern age has given us lots of cool and useful new tools, like penicillin and the internet, but in the moment when industrialization occurred, a priceless social technology was buried: the Ritual

This year’s Halloween turned out a little differently than we all hoped for

It’s a paradox, but maybe blogging about Bushwick makes you not realize all the changes that happen right in front of your eyes

By Sean Alday

There are two things about

This week’s mixtape is inspired by BushwickGallery‘s recent offline opening, Mushroom Universe.  When I was asked to put together 90’s music for the evening, I was truly ecstatic!  As any DJ finds, so much effort is spent gigging and spinning music for the crowd’s tastes, yet perhaps not always so favorable to one’s own palette.  Thankfully, […]

By Katarina Hybenova

The sound of the breaks against the rubber tires of my bike feels so good. Alas! It’s the first beautiful day in Bushwick in about million years. I just stopped in front of Allison Somers‘  house at Wilson Avenue. Allison is sitting on the stairs holding the leash of her long-haired dog Lucy. She’s pleasurably […]

The last time I attended a 

by Ms

It’s a mid-July afternoon at Bushwick’s Myrtle Avenue. The above-the-ground J and M trains are racing each other in production of industrial noise and delivery and/or removal of the peoples of Bushwick. A pollo truck in the nearby shade has just reached this season’s top level of sale of Colombian chicken. People are walking, bumping […]