The Knickerbocker Hotel There is no easy or difficult way of making a cocktail. As the book Elements of Style concludes: “The longest way round is usually the shortest way home.” In the case of a cocktail, it’s all about capturing a multifaceted story that is told by the mixture of the ingredients, the establishment […]

SXSW is fading in the rearview mirror, and we already shared all of our best photos and best of SXSW playlist

Jeso O’Neill’s week photographing all the kitties of Bushwick she could find may be over but FEAR NOT

Welcome to 2014!  We hope  you’re sticking to your resolutions this year! 2014 will not be like last year, the year before, or the year before that one

By Maria Gotay, Katarina Hybenova & Emilie Ruscoe

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Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall – HUH!  -Mos Def, “Hip Hop” (1999)

This weekend’s art events offer a little something for everyone

We’ve introduced you to all sorts of spectacular getaways with our escapes series this summer, from The Newburgh Brewing Company upstate to The Wild Honey Pie’s Summer Camp to events at Rockaway Beach

Six months ago Brooklyn lost its garage-punk band the K-Holes when their bassist and singer ran off to South Carolina to have a baby, leaving behind former bandmates Sara Villard and Vashti Windish bandless and itching to start on a new creative endeavor

In a city where everyone has a housing horror story, Preston Pujol’s tale of woe, reported by Annette Konoske Graf in the Brooklyn Ink last week, is still a knockout

Bushwick Open Studios is happening again this year and it feels even more real with the directory of 569 registrants which just went live! You can browse this historically highest number of the registered shows (551 in 2012) as long as you want to, check out your listings, the listings of your friends, conspire, plan, and start getting really excited!!!

There is a steady hum that has begun to permeate the streets of Bushwick

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Rain gently pattered on the back window of Mellow Pages library and reading room as the L train roared beneath Bogart Street during a Secret Reading on a Tuesday afternoon a couple of weeks ago

Better known to film fans for her bawdy screen performances and her ever-quotable double entendres, Mae West was a Brooklyn native and fixture of the NYC theater scene long before moving to Hollywood in 1932 and cementing her reputation as the “Queen of Sex

With temperatures steadily in the 40s this week, you’re probably asking yourself: “I wonder whatever happened to Jodie Sweetin from Full House?”

I’m not the only one who decided to endulge in my passions while majoring in a not-so-practical concentration in college

After a good Sunday night’s sleep, we woke up to a fresh almost autumn day and to our new website! It will take us a couple of weeks of twisting and tweaking to get every single detail in place but, for the most part, the website is working great!

By Terri Ciccone

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By Katarina Hybenova

In Bushwick’s

By Katarina Hybenova

By Maria Gotay

Text and Photos by Katarina Hybenova

There is a really awkward date with possible linguistic barriers going on behind me at the moment, and I, am not twittering about it… Instead I have stepped straight of the airplane and into Yaffa Cafe a late night favorite in order to concentrate on some very very belated writing exercises as opposed to physical ones. My […]

Those who know me can hopefully attest to the fact that I will do something if you can prove to me, that I want to do it

pho·bi·a [foh-bee-uh] a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it. ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲ I went camping this last holiday weekend, and as a mode of therapy, I will write about my experience having what seems to be the most severe case of arachnophobia, know to man. I had not thought too much of my paralyzing, irrational fear of our creepy crawly eight legged friends since […]

The Bushwick Chronicles, an awesome comic series by

“Enough of the hypothetical duck talk,” I said, and Eric Trosko raised his eye-brows. It was one of the Bushwick gallery nights, and we were slowly melting our intellectual gallery experience immediately preceding this moment, in one of the number of kinds of the Six Point beer. Eric is probably the tallest painter in Bushwick, […]

Good morning, Bushwick fellas. I am reporting from the warmth and coziness of my favorite coffee shop. I hope you are on the same vibe, enjoying this rainy day and all you need is a good read. Turn on your Christmas lights, get yourself a nice mug of cofee and browse through this awesome online […]