Mark your calendars and get your tickets now for Variance, a 16 hour music and arts festival set to take place on August 6th in a not yet disclosed Bushwick location
It's been almost five months since denizens of the city's creatively entrepreneurial set would trek several blocks east from the Morgan L stop to head to the 3rd Ward space at 195 Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, to take classes ranging from stop-motion animation to jewelry design
Whether you love it or you hate it, Castle Braid, the controversial luxury rental development on Troutman Street that markets itself to the creative set, is a perennial topic of interest in conversations about Bushwick real estate: most recently, it was name-dropped in the New York Times' profile of former meatpacking restauranteur Florent Morellet the week before last
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