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Leaving Bushwick Is Never Easy

Leaving Bushwick Is Never Easy

Bushwick Daily’s managing editor says goodbye the only way she knows how: with an essay.

This Ridgewood Deli Owner Moonlights as an Egyptian TV Pundit

This Ridgewood Deli Owner Moonlights as an Egyptian TV Pundit

El-Gamasy regularly appears on Egyptian news, commenting on U.S. politics, broadcasting from the back of his bodega.

How to Make It In: Book Publicity With Bushwick Resident Siena Koncsol

How to Make It In: Book Publicity With Bushwick Resident Siena Koncsol

20 Things You Should Know if You Just Moved to Bushwick

20 Things You Should Know if You Just Moved to Bushwick

Viral Trump Tombstone Has Arrived in Bushwick: Go See It Tonight

Viral Trump Tombstone Has Arrived in Bushwick: Go See It Tonight

A Questionable Installation: Elias Avellaneda’s Spectacular Assemblage on Jefferson-Wyckoff

A Questionable Installation: Elias Avellaneda’s Spectacular Assemblage on Jefferson-Wyckoff

Seeing is Believing: 5 Art Shows Which Question Reality

Seeing is Believing: 5 Art Shows Which Question Reality

 

Pumps: Where Old and New Brooklyn Get Drunk, Naked and Happy

Pumps: Where Old and New Brooklyn Get Drunk, Naked and Happy

Pumps isn’t working with a whole lot of space, but the mirrors on every wall give you the sense of hidden corners, side rooms and secret doors

Barely Legal: Meet Humza Deas, the 18-Year-Old Prodigy Photographer from Bushwick

Barely Legal: Meet Humza Deas, the 18-Year-Old Prodigy Photographer from Bushwick

At only 18, Humza Deas has already accomplished more than what people do in a lifetime.

Our Material Selections: Live Subject Matter and Objects of Absurdity Appear In This Week’s Newest Art Shows

Our Material Selections: Live Subject Matter and Objects of Absurdity Appear In This Week’s Newest Art Shows

We acquire our materials quite obviously in the same way we do our friends: by choice

Upcoming Documentary “The Bushwick Diaries” Launched its Kickstarter

Upcoming Documentary “The Bushwick Diaries” Launched its Kickstarter

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Start Your Weekend Early Tonight with Cheryl Georgette’s “Tight in a Bud” at Alt Space

Start Your Weekend Early Tonight with Cheryl Georgette’s “Tight in a Bud” at Alt Space

Some may still be rubbing the post-CMJ show slumber from their eyes after having a pretty packed last week, but this weather makes it hard not to push through the exhaustion and hit up some of the awesome events that are soon taking place in Bushwick

Enjoy The Last Days of August! Top Music Shows This Weekend

Enjoy The Last Days of August! Top Music Shows This Weekend

Guys — it’s officially the last weekend in August

Is the Dunkin’ Donuts Opening on Flushing Ave Signaling the End of Creative Bushwick?

Is the Dunkin’ Donuts Opening on Flushing Ave Signaling the End of Creative Bushwick?

If you regularly pass the giant carwash called Wow at the corner of Flushing and Knickerbocker Ave in Bushwick, you should know that it will soon no longer be part of your commute

Bushwick’s EBC High School Is the Coolest: 6 Murals on Its Walls We Admire

Bushwick’s EBC High School Is the Coolest: 6 Murals on Its Walls We Admire

Bushwick’s own EBC High School (located at 1155 Dekalb Ave) has recently launched its new public arts initiative,

“I’ve Had Pinkeye Like 6 Times This Year,” Shares NSFW Writer, Henry Miller

“I’ve Had Pinkeye Like 6 Times This Year,” Shares NSFW Writer, Henry Miller

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New Bar/Music Venue, Footlight Club, is Coming to Ridgewood!

New Bar/Music Venue, Footlight Club, is Coming to Ridgewood!

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

Bushwick Open Studios 2015 Guide: JMZ

Bushwick Open Studios 2015 Guide: JMZ

I hope you all got enough sleep, because today is the day when the craziness called Bushwick Open Studios starts

TGIF: Are You Ready for Bushwick Open Studios Next Weekend?

TGIF: Are You Ready for Bushwick Open Studios Next Weekend?

Bushwick Open Studios 2015 is just ONE week away! Remember to check out Arts in Bushwick’s official events all weekend

TGIF: Two Week Countdown til #BushwickOpenStudios

TGIF: Two Week Countdown til #BushwickOpenStudios

While the chilly air reminds us that summer is still a month away, Bushwick Open Studios kicks off in two weeks!!! Join #AiB on Friday night for the annual Launch Party and Seeking Space Park Exhibition, check out Community Day in Maria Hernandez on Saturday, and rest a bit after the long weekend during CinemaSunday at the Bushwick Community Darkroom

New Book Captures 50 Fleeting Spaces of Brooklyn DIY Culture

New Book Captures 50 Fleeting Spaces of Brooklyn DIY Culture

Getting lost and finding yourself in a Brooklyn DIY space can turn out to be the best adventure of your life

Art Openings? You Asked and We’re About To Give Them To You

Art Openings? You Asked and We’re About To Give Them To You

Any art openings this weekend? You asked and we’re ready give you all the details

Exclusive: First Look at the Varet Wall’s Newest Mural in Bushwick

Exclusive: First Look at the Varet Wall’s Newest Mural in Bushwick

“Nothing is forever,” Brooklyn-based artist Vexta says when discussing street art’s temporary life span

Who is Apneet? Bushwick Fashion Blogger Tells Us About Her Latest (Instagram) Obsessions

Who is Apneet? Bushwick Fashion Blogger Tells Us About Her Latest (Instagram) Obsessions

Known for her blog, journalistic writing and urban skater-meets-ladylike style, Apneet is a true creative force

The Björk-in-Bushwick Obsession Continues: She Was at Dun-Well But Didn’t Get a Donut

The Björk-in-Bushwick Obsession Continues: She Was at Dun-Well But Didn’t Get a Donut

To put it simply, we think that Björk is the coolest person ever.

Avoid Emotional Frostbite with Sweet Toof’s Saccharine Street Art in Brooklyn

Avoid Emotional Frostbite with Sweet Toof’s Saccharine Street Art in Brooklyn

Against the cold, gray, bleak background of Brooklyn in January, colorful things, and literally anything with the smallest hint of cheer, are sure to stand out

Grammy-Nominated ILoveMakonnen Plays in Bushwick TONIGHT!

Grammy-Nominated ILoveMakonnen Plays in Bushwick TONIGHT!

You may have heard the buzz… grammy-nominated hip hop artist and Drake-tourmate ILoveMakonnen has been hanging out in Bushwick lately and will cause a frenzy at Silent Barn TONIGHT. But don’t count on hearing “Tuesday”— not because it’s Monday— but because he’s playing tonight with his DIY project Phantom Posse, whose vibe floats around in […]

Bushwick Ain’t No Disneyland: Do You Also Find it Hard to Show Bushwick to Tourists?

Bushwick Ain’t No Disneyland: Do You Also Find it Hard to Show Bushwick to Tourists?

I zigzag my way through the roaming Boar’s Head trucks and Morgantown residents wearing sunglasses and mismatched pajamas (it somehow works as a stylish outdoor outfit) who are smoking and loitering on the benches in front of Brooklyn Natural and Cafe Swallow

8 Things You Should Know About Bushwick Daily’s Crowd-funding Campaign. (Besides the Fact That it’s Awesome)

8 Things You Should Know About Bushwick Daily’s Crowd-funding Campaign. (Besides the Fact That it’s Awesome)

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CMJ’s 12 Hottest Bands & Where to Catch Them For Free or Cheap

CMJ’s 12 Hottest Bands & Where to Catch Them For Free or Cheap

We hope you are all as jazzed about CMJ as we are! The festival is the College Music Journal’s “Music Marathon”- a completely amazing (and exhausting) week (October 21-25, 2014) of live music, giving the music community a chance to catch the best new artists from around the world before they blow up

Bushwick’s Own Dr. Lisa takes on BAM! Special Reception Tonight!

Bushwick’s Own Dr. Lisa takes on BAM! Special Reception Tonight!

Our favorite self-proclaimed psychoanalyst Lisa Levy will be debuting her new exhibition at BAM tonight! What Makes You So Special: Doctor Lisa Investigates is a culmination of months of research and psychotherapy sessions, where Levy conducted interviews of several “patients,” including artists Mickalene Thomas and Matthew Silver, comedian, Jo Firestone, fireman Kevin Hamilton, teenager Martin Kramer, and many others

Bushwig Tears it up Again: An Experimental Art Community Proved its Worth

Bushwig Tears it up Again: An Experimental Art Community Proved its Worth

A spectacular fan routine. Two hot days and nights of heavy drinking, nipples, genitals, a wedding, drugs, sweaty wigs, lip syncing, heavy beats, hardcore rifts and exuberant dancing. It was two nights of Bushwig this year and anything less would have taken the joy out of life. On Saturday the 6th, right in the middle of […]

More Than Double Shots of Espresso: These Bushwick Coffee Shops Cater To Many Interests

More Than Double Shots of Espresso: These Bushwick Coffee Shops Cater To Many Interests

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LED Fairyland – Sounds and Light Art Flourish in Burning Man’s Desert Utopia

LED Fairyland – Sounds and Light Art Flourish in Burning Man’s Desert Utopia

Burning Man: the desert festival on the tip of everyone’s tongue in recent times. This past week I finally had a chance to visit the magical Black Rock City, which is erected and razed once a year for ten days in the Nevada Desert. The festival started as a small beachside bonfire in San Francisco in […]

It’s Here: A Documentary About Drag in Bushwick, Sisters of the Wicked Wig Needs Your Help

It’s Here: A Documentary About Drag in Bushwick, Sisters of the Wicked Wig Needs Your Help

As the lofts fill out, and the condos go up, it’s getting tougher to see Bushwick as the harbor of subculture and the avant-garde nightlife that has been part of its identity for the better part of a decade

If They Build it, You Will Party: Bushwick’s Underground Spot Apostrophe is Going Legal and Needs Your Help!

If They Build it, You Will Party: Bushwick’s Underground Spot Apostrophe is Going Legal and Needs Your Help!

Last fall, the shutting down of Apostrophe, a beloved art gallery and after hours spot devastated the Bushwick underground scene. It’s been almost a year and Ki and Sei Smith, the brothers that founded the space in 2012, have had lots of time to think, scheme and strategize a plan for a new, improved and […]