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Did AIDS Come to Bushwick in the 1950s?

Did AIDS Come to Bushwick in the 1950s?

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Bushwick, Prepare to Dye – Workshops at BUAISOU. Brooklyn Lab

Bushwick, Prepare to Dye – Workshops at BUAISOU. Brooklyn Lab

 

Bushwick’s Mayday Space Gears Up For People’s Climate March This Sunday

Bushwick’s Mayday Space Gears Up For People’s Climate March This Sunday

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10 Epic Music Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall!

10 Epic Music Festivals In & Around NYC This Fall!

If you’re like us and you loooooove music festivals, you may be quietly shedding tears over the (impending) arrival of fall and the end of festival season

Material Selections: In the Studio with Christian Berman

Material Selections: In the Studio with Christian Berman

When you walk into Christian Berman’s second-floor studio inside The Active Space you might feel an intrinsic pull toward one side of the room over the other, it depends on your preference—Mexican symbolism or Native American iconography. Speaking through material selections and natural forms, Christian explores the role of the tribal, the communal, and the […]

10 Must-See Artists to Catch at Governors Ball!

10 Must-See Artists to Catch at Governors Ball!

Holy moly! We can’t believe the super sold out Governor’s Ball is this weekend

Artist Flashcards: Many Faces of Delphine Diallo

Artist Flashcards: Many Faces of Delphine Diallo

Each week Bushwick Daily brings you a new Artist FlashCard, introducing an amazing artist living/working/showing in Bushwick who you need to know

Tempting Art Picks for the Weekend

Tempting Art Picks for the Weekend

Might I encounter the rousing side of Bushwick in this weekend’s top art picks? As I share the sexy side of our artsy enclave on this week’s #BushwickDaily Insta-Takeover, I am tempted to untap the sultry, suprising or bravely sensual side of the neighborhood art scene. Whether blatant or subtle, upfront or shyly concealed, I’ll […]

Reservoir Dogs, the Bushwick Paintball Team That Inspires (and Is Really Good at Paintball)

Reservoir Dogs, the Bushwick Paintball Team That Inspires (and Is Really Good at Paintball)

Wesley Salazar Contributor Lucia Reed Photographer When the three men walk through the door of Palates, they aren’t quite what I had imagined. My previous association with paintball was scrawny high school kids with a knack for destruction, but these members of the Bushwick-borne, internationally known paintball team called the Reservoir Dogs are burly and, of […]

New Coffee Shop Palates Is a Tasty & Affordable Destination Off Knickerbocker M

New Coffee Shop Palates Is a Tasty & Affordable Destination Off Knickerbocker M

The name of the coffee shop has nothing to do with the exercise Pilates; it refers to the taste palate as well as the physical wooden pallets that comprise much of the new coffee shop’s interior

Panelists Call On Residents to Unite for Bushwick (Video)

Panelists Call On Residents to Unite for Bushwick (Video)

Newcomers and long-time residents need to work together for the future of the community, agreed the speakers on the “Building a Better Bushwick” panel at Bushwick Film Festival on Saturday, which we livestreamed and is available to watch in full above

Bridging Art and Community with Film – Kweighbaye Kotee, Founder of Bushwick Film Festival

Bridging Art and Community with Film – Kweighbaye Kotee, Founder of Bushwick Film Festival

Bushwick Film Festival turns six this year! From October 2nd to the 6th you have a great opportunity to get involved, whether by attending, contributing to the BFF foundation, or volunteering (there still might be a couple of spots available)

Ultimate Guide to Photoville: Best Exhibitions, Workshops and More!

Ultimate Guide to Photoville: Best Exhibitions, Workshops and More!

Whether you are aspiring to become a professional photographer or just addicted to Instagram, we highly recommend you make the trek out to Brooklyn Bridge Park this next week to check out the second annual Photoville

Antonio Reynoso on Bushwick’s Creative Community and Arts Scene

Antonio Reynoso on Bushwick’s Creative Community and Arts Scene

Antonio Reynoso, 30, is a Williamsburg native who’s running in this fall’s election for the 34th district seat on the New York City Council, a zone that includes Williamsburg, Bushwick and Ridgewood

Back To Cool: Top Music Shows This Weekend!

Back To Cool: Top Music Shows This Weekend!

Back-to-School? Pshhh

Conscious Art Festival to Inspire Change Is Tonight

Conscious Art Festival to Inspire Change Is Tonight

On Friday from 6PM to 2AM Conscious Arts Festival, an arts festival with the purpose to inspire change, will take place at Brooklyn Fire Proof East

Listening Party: Bombino

Listening Party: Bombino

This week’s Listening Party focusses on North African Artist Bombino

Bushwick Lookbook: Iggy Azalea Obsession

Bushwick Lookbook: Iggy Azalea Obsession

We love a good female MC, and are lucky enough to live in a city that is home to plenty of them

‘I am a Negress of Noteworthy Talent,’ Five Films By Emerging Filmmakers

‘I am a Negress of Noteworthy Talent,’ Five Films By Emerging Filmmakers

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Ridgewood Artists to Tour U.S. with “Drum Casket”

Ridgewood Artists to Tour U.S. with “Drum Casket”

Amery Kessler and Mary Jane Ward, artists and partners living in Ridgewood, Queens, will embark on a 26 city U

Chasing Bunna Cafe, Ethiopian Pop Up Restaurant

Chasing Bunna Cafe, Ethiopian Pop Up Restaurant

Bunna Cafe has become a staple in Brooklyn’s pop-up food shop trend, bringing their mouth-watering Ethiopian food to bars and fairs in Bushwick and beyond

Save the Date: Coffee Cupping at Little Skips This Tuesday

Save the Date: Coffee Cupping at Little Skips This Tuesday

Our beloved coffee spot Little Skips is hosting its first free, open-to-the-public, coffee cupping event this coming Tuesday, February 12 at 6PM! The patrons will have an opportunity to try a variety of coffees, and to learn a little more about the qualities that make their brew exceptional! We sat down with the Little Skips’ Coffee Specialist, Sean Sullivan to chat about what we can expect on Tuesday

Rubulad in Bushwick this Weekend, Possibly for Good

Rubulad in Bushwick this Weekend, Possibly for Good

As a longtime Rubulad fans, we were beyond ecstatic when we received a press release about their upcoming Valentine’s Day Party, Love Unlimited! If you’re unfamiliar, Rubulad is one of Brooklyn’s best underground parties – so underground in fact that they don’t have any official web presence! Their events bring people of all walks to life and all ages (well, 21+) to get together and experience top-notch entertainment

Traveling Music Showcase Aputumpu Rocks Shea Stadium

Traveling Music Showcase Aputumpu Rocks Shea Stadium

Earlier this month, Brooklyn Aputumpu, a traveling party and music showcase, put on a show at Shea Stadium featuring SoftSpot, Field Mouse, Osekre & The Lucky Bastards and The Micks

FUNKING IT UP @ BK Funk Fest

FUNKING IT UP @ BK Funk Fest

Last weekend the Brooklyn Funk Fest at the Paper Box lit up Bushwick

Artist Transforms a Cement Truck into a Lisa Frank Sensation

Artist Transforms a Cement Truck into a Lisa Frank Sensation

Artist Andrea Bergart probably thought that painting on canvas was too boring

Worm Carnevale: From The Morgan Stop To The Stoop (Part II)

Worm Carnevale: From The Morgan Stop To The Stoop (Part II)

This is Part II of a rolling conversation with photographer and sense provocateur 

In an Old Cheap Storage Facility…

In an Old Cheap Storage Facility…

Text by Asha Chagoyen

jojo’s Mixtape- Drum Along!

jojo’s Mixtape- Drum Along!

jojo‘s Mixtape- Drum Along! This week’s mix contains African tracks, selected for their captivating groove and rhythm elements.  I drum along to these tracks to practice djembe, sing along, and dance around.  The key ingredient is the pulsing repetition that draws us to move or express, the patterns we hear that repeat and invite us […]

10 Mind Blowing Female Bushwick Artists

10 Mind Blowing Female Bushwick Artists

We want to send some love and appreciation to all the Bushwick ladies in art

Pearl Beads of Andrea Bergart

Pearl Beads of Andrea Bergart

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Botanica Elias: Magic, Religion and Culture

Botanica Elias: Magic, Religion and Culture

By Katarina Hybenova [singlepic id=506 w=640 h=427 float=center] Elisabeth runs Elias Botanica on 1252 Myrtle Ave, a place where you can get religious amulets or talk to your deceased relatives. It’s up to you which one of the Bushwick’s faces you choose to see everyday. You may choose to see galleries, trendy bars, poverty, dirty […]

Could Art Change the World/Bushwick?

Could Art Change the World/Bushwick?

Well, you will never know unless you try… Have you watched JR’s inspirational speech delivered after he received TED award? Well, this French artists has made quite a difference… It all began in Paris where he pasted large close up portraits of young people growing up in the Parisian housing projects and pasted them on […]

Paper Swan to host 9 events in Union Hall

Paper Swan to host 9 events in Union Hall

is a Bushwick-based production collective who came to the public attention thanks to the number of music events they have hosted in their Bushwick loft, Swan Loft, since 2008

Photon Dynamo and The Shiny Pieces.

Photon Dynamo and The Shiny Pieces.

Find more artists like Photon Dynamo and the Shiny Pieces at Myspace Music You’re young, broke and idealistic. Your creativity doesn’t let you sleep at night. You don’t care about food, sleep, clothes or love, because art is the only thing that matters right now. And you know you have to do it; give a […]