“It’s never been this bad,” protestors say about a proposed rent increase

A local designer has an answer to both problems. A video game.

Temple offers community to practitioners, students, artists and those who are interested in learning more about rope, movement, meditation and more.

“Part of the idea is to create opportunity, in some small measure, for artists.”

Some are absolutely free to join and one is hiding in Ridgewood!

In Bushwick, Fine & Raw Chocolate produces vegan chocolates, truffles, and even a version of Nutella.

Halsey stop, brace yourself for the arrival of a yuppie heaven.

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

Mike Serafino’s “Burn Canvas” opens Thursday at 630 Flushing Avenue (Image courtesy of Mike Serafino) We’re more than halfway through July and therein—halfway through the summer of 2015. This week’s mid-summer story brings new openings, artist talks and live performances across the neighborhood. We even have a new gallery – Gallery Petite at 114 Wilson Avenue […]

Tucked away in a small boxy building off of Morgan Ave is The Chimney, one of the newest multimedia exhibition spaces to come to Bushwick

We just posted the latest news on Bushwick’s favorite gallery hop and late night event – Beat Nite – which will include highlights from some of this week’s featured art openings

“Where are we going tonight?” is probably the most common question on every Bushwick resident’s mind as the weekend approaches

Last week, Brooklyn mourned the sad news about Williamsburg’s beloved venue, Glasslands closing down and putting on their last show on New Year’s Eve

Photos from MayDay’s Facebook Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald, together with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Pointras, spoke to a packed audience Thursday night on the top floor of Bushwick’s Mayday, a newly opened “bar and community space” on Starr street in northern part of the booming North Brooklyn neighborhood. Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty […]

The Hollows founders Piril Gunduz and Jessica Kingdon outside their gallery space. Photo by Alonzo Maciel. Finding The Hollows was not intentional. I was up late one night Craigslist surfing (hey, the “etc” jobs sometimes can be very entertaining to read) when I came across “Seeking Artists for a Permanent Ceiling Piece in Bushwick Art […]

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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

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

This past Friday night, Grace Exhibition Space welcomed La Pocha Nostra to Bushwick, bringing their post-national, apocalyptic, trans-cultural performance with them

This weekend the New Museum celebrated its third year of IDEAS CITY, a collaborative initiative that seeks to use the arts to revitalize urban space as a forum for discussion and culture enrichment

Imagine the unimaginable, the uncomfortable, the unexplainable

By Katarina Hybenova

There’s a basement in Bushwick where they’re singing Fleetwood Mac

Ex-Birdy’s bartenders open a cash-only joint on Knickerbocker, taking the place of a “$5 Shoe Warehouse”

Tension did erupt, briefly.

A group of Jewish electronic musicians in Brooklyn are fundraising for humanitarian relief in Gaza.

A group of Asian-American pole dancers lights up clubs like House of Yes and the Red Pavilion.

Local Tiki enthusiast says he isn’t closing the doors on Dromedary just yet, either.

The three day neighborhood arts fair arrives again this weekend

El Puente’s signature summer annual event hits Maria Hernandez on Saturday. It promises to be a public outlet for art and self expression, by way of break dancing