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Bushwick Lit Staple Mellow Pages Reading Room Needs Our Help!

Bushwick Lit Staple Mellow Pages Reading Room Needs Our Help!

Mellow Pages, the beloved open-source library and reading room located on the first floor of 56 Bogart, needs your help: founders Jacob Perkins and Matt Nelson are asking their community to support the space with a newly launched Indiegogo campaign while the Mellow Pages gang figures out its next steps

Bushwick Bark Will Host Their Annual Awkward Family Holiday Photo Shoot This Week

Bushwick Bark Will Host Their Annual Awkward Family Holiday Photo Shoot This Week

Support their holiday fundraiser with a photo of you and your beloved pet.

The Best Weekend: Ava Luna, BangOn! Rave, New York’s Alright Fest, 14-hour Dance Party + MORE!

The Best Weekend: Ava Luna, BangOn! Rave, New York’s Alright Fest, 14-hour Dance Party + MORE!

It’s going to be 70+ degrees and sunny tomorrow, and there are ten incredible shows, raves, dance parties and festivals going down over the next three days

Your Top Goddamn Shows This Weekend: Holiday Brunch Show, Laser Harp, Wintry Folk Tunes + Suburbia is back!

Your Top Goddamn Shows This Weekend: Holiday Brunch Show, Laser Harp, Wintry Folk Tunes + Suburbia is back!

You know what? I’m all out of jokes

A Lit-Lover’s Guide To Bushwick: Where You Should Read, Write and Shop

A Lit-Lover’s Guide To Bushwick: Where You Should Read, Write and Shop

Bushwick is full of stories

It’s Warm! Get Pumped With These Top 10 Music Shows this Weekend!

It’s Warm! Get Pumped With These Top 10 Music Shows this Weekend!

Are you PUMPED that it’s finally getting warm? Yeah, maybe it’s a little rainy, but that’s all part of spring on the upswing. What better way to rally in the gorgeous weather than to rock out at some rad shows?! We’ve crafted a list featuring a couple really great free concerts balanced out by some slightly […]

Mellow Pages’ 50k ExxonMobil “Prank” [Updated]

Mellow Pages’ 50k ExxonMobil “Prank” [Updated]

This morning we informed you of a seemingly heroic decision by Bushwick’s beloved library, Mellow Pages, to reject a supposed $50,000 donation from ExxonMobile

Mellow Pages Rejects $50K Donation from ExxonMobil

Mellow Pages Rejects $50K Donation from ExxonMobil

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Back to School Or What? Your Weekend Art & Culture Fix

Back to School Or What? Your Weekend Art & Culture Fix

Those who could made sure to escape the city for one last moment of summer vacation before Labour Day put an end to summer leisure and white garments

Most Popular Reads in Bushwick Bookstores Uncovered

Most Popular Reads in Bushwick Bookstores Uncovered

Not too long ago DNAinfo praised Bushwick for its bookshop greatness, even going so far as to call Bushwick a literary mecca (ooh lala, well thank you!)

#mellowyeezus or How Kanye West Nearly Showed Up at Mellow Pages

#mellowyeezus or How Kanye West Nearly Showed Up at Mellow Pages

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Mellow Pages Expands! More Books, Members and Events

Mellow Pages Expands! More Books, Members and Events

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

Bushwick book nerds have a new hangout – Mellow Pages

Bushwick book nerds have a new hangout – Mellow Pages

Bookworms rejoice! Mellow Pages, a new library and reading room in Bushwick, will open its doors on Thursday, February 21 at 7PM with beers and impromptu readings

Three Days in January: Revisiting The Broadway Hostage Crisis of 1973

Three Days in January: Revisiting The Broadway Hostage Crisis of 1973

49 years ago today, four young men entered a sporting goods store for a robbery that would soon escalate into a fatal shootout and hostage situation. With a new documentary film on the subject scheduled to come out later this year, Bushwick Daily takes a look back at the event.

Bushwick Venues, Including Elsewhere and House of Yes, Join “Save Our Stage” Pandemic Efforts

Bushwick Venues, Including Elsewhere and House of Yes, Join “Save Our Stage” Pandemic Efforts

A growing list of music and entertainment venues are pushing for Congress to pass legislation for pandemic relief

Bushwick Breweries: Your Guide to the Best Beer Makers in the Area

Bushwick Breweries: Your Guide to the Best Beer Makers in the Area

Since the early 1800s, Bushwick has been one of the central locations for beer making in the New York area.

One Bedroom, A Rom Com Set In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Shines At The Bushwick Film Festival

One Bedroom, A Rom Com Set In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Shines At The Bushwick Film Festival

“Cheap Rent in Brooklyn is a Powerful Aphrodisiac”

Booze News: Queens Brewery Has Promise, but It Also Has Work to Do

Booze News: Queens Brewery Has Promise, but It Also Has Work to Do

Your Big Fat Guide to the Best Bushwick Halloween of Your Life! (Parties, Live Music, Family, Food) [Updated]

Your Big Fat Guide to the Best Bushwick Halloween of Your Life! (Parties, Live Music, Family, Food) [Updated]

It’s the time to bow to the Great Pumpkin, the magical goddess of the fall! Get ready for pumpkin carving, pumpkin ale, and pretty much everything else tasting, smelling or looking like pumpkins

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

No, It’s Not Over Yet! Six Art Events to Get you Through the End of August

No, It’s Not Over Yet! Six Art Events to Get you Through the End of August

[contextly_auto_sidebar id=”w6h9DVawY43A1VqlWd6iCzfgzcls5oB5″] it’sover The next two weeks are pretty much my favorite time to be in the city. Everyone’s on vacation, tourists are concentrated into a couple of areas that I never go to anyway, and I can usually get a seat on the subway in the morning! August is also the time when Bushwick […]

How to Survive This City as a Transplant

How to Survive This City as a Transplant

Oh, New Yorkers, aren’t we all transplants? Many of us for sure! We frequently land in Bushwick in hopes of starting our après college lives on the cheap yet glamorously (after hiring moving companies like Mayflower). We’re not always welcome, sometimes it takes a hot second to hone our city manners, but bear with us, […]

Web Series ‘Jared Posts a Personal’ Makes Bad Online Dates Fun

Web Series ‘Jared Posts a Personal’ Makes Bad Online Dates Fun

Everyone has at least one horrible online dating story

Bushwick Attractions for Tourists as Welcomed by Mayor Bloomberg

Bushwick Attractions for Tourists as Welcomed by Mayor Bloomberg

Who needs Central Park when you have Maria Hernandez Park? Shopping at dollar stores on Knickerbocker Ave, scenic walks on Johnson Ave and romantic counting of rats on the tracks of the L train

The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Playlist to Make You Loving Yourself and Everybody Else

The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Playlist to Make You Loving Yourself and Everybody Else

Happy Valentine’s Day, Bushwick! Whether you’re in love or single at the moment, we love you!! And that’s why Bushwick Daily contributors got together and created this super awesome Valentine’s Day playlist! So just sit back, hit play and get ready for a variety of emotions

Thoughts on Bushwick Open Studios 2012

Thoughts on Bushwick Open Studios 2012

The long version Bushwick Open Studios 2012

5 Bushwick Writers on How to Get Published

5 Bushwick Writers on How to Get Published

By Katarina Hybenova

Fire Exit Only! Fireside Follies #3!

Fire Exit Only! Fireside Follies #3!

Dear Santa… You know that feeling when you have so much to say about something, you really can’t decide what to say first and you get stuck? Hmm… You’re saying you don’t know that feeling because you’re a great multitasker thanks to all the practice with the rain deer navigation and all the presents you […]

who reads by the fire.

who reads by the fire.

Maybe you squinted last night until 3am with the flickering light of your $9