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Checking in With Merrie Cherry, the Bushwig Icon and Dragula Star

Checking in With Merrie Cherry, the Bushwig Icon and Dragula Star

The founding member of Bushwig discusses the meaning of drag, starring in season four of Dragula and the recent loss of her grandmother.

The Drag Personality of the Moment: Merrie Cherry

The Drag Personality of the Moment: Merrie Cherry

It’s undeniable – drag is blowing up in New York

Top 5 Events This Weekend for a Bushwick Polar Bear

Top 5 Events This Weekend for a Bushwick Polar Bear

You make an eye contact with the person passing by

Live From Bushwig

Live From Bushwig

The world’s largest drag and queer music festival recently hit nearby Queens.

The Rookery Returns

The Rookery Returns

Picking up a new chef from the shuttered Spotted Pig, a decade-old Troutman street haunt reopens its doors

Baked Goods, Booze & Banh Mi On Wyckoff Avenue

Baked Goods, Booze & Banh Mi On Wyckoff Avenue

Two Stumptown vets serve Vietnamese fare and a bakery menu put together by Scratchbread’s Matthew Tilden

Pastry Crawl: Try These Fresh Baked Goods in and Around Bushwick

Pastry Crawl: Try These Fresh Baked Goods in and Around Bushwick

Hartbreakers Brings Plant Based Food and Good Vibes to Bushwick

Hartbreakers Brings Plant Based Food and Good Vibes to Bushwick

A 70s inspired vegan restaurant from the Champs team opens in Bushwick.

Oops! Is East Williamsburg’s Hottest Free Drag Show

Oops! Is East Williamsburg’s Hottest Free Drag Show

Wednesday nights have become a bright spot for partygoers in East Williamsburg thanks to Oops!, a weekly drag variety show that goes down at The Rosemont.

A Night with Queens of the Crypt at Secret Project Robot

A Night with Queens of the Crypt at Secret Project Robot

One writer explores how Bushwick means accepting things for what they are.

El Cortez’s ‘The Commodore’ Tops the Reader Poll for Best Summer Cocktail

El Cortez’s ‘The Commodore’ Tops the Reader Poll for Best Summer Cocktail

The fruity, refreshing rum-based frozen cocktail hits the spot on those hot summer days.

Bushwick’s Petra is the New Mediterranean-Inspired Bar You Need to Visit

Bushwick’s Petra is the New Mediterranean-Inspired Bar You Need to Visit

(Mr)s BK, a Beloved Drag Tradition, Hits Bushwick This Friday!

(Mr)s BK, a Beloved Drag Tradition, Hits Bushwick This Friday!

Formerly titled (Mr)s Williamsburg, the event is produced by scene renowned Brooklyn drag performers.

Queer Happenings In and Around Bushwick this Week: 7/13 – 7/19

Queer Happenings In and Around Bushwick this Week: 7/13 – 7/19

Maybe you’re a queer kiddo lookin’ to cut a rug in a room full of gender-non-conforming cuties

Queens of Kings: Watch New Web Series About Bushwick-Famous Drag Queens [Trailer]

Queens of Kings: Watch New Web Series About Bushwick-Famous Drag Queens [Trailer]

So, it’s Sunday night and you’ve just spent all weekend celebrating Brooklyn Pride

#DoBushwick: Bushwick Art Crit Group; 3 Kinds of Meditations to Get You Ready for New Moon!

#DoBushwick: Bushwick Art Crit Group; 3 Kinds of Meditations to Get You Ready for New Moon!

starlight With New Moon coming up this Saturday, this week is a good time to recenter in mediation (whether it’s sound or coloring meditation you prefer) and reconnect with your community. Check out 10 curated events for Monday to Thursday in the greater Bushwick area. Majority of the events in our newsletter are curated. Each […]

“If You Don’t See Yourself Represented, Go Out and Represent Yourself”- 3rd Annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards

“If You Don’t See Yourself Represented, Go Out and Represent Yourself”- 3rd Annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards

Brooklyn’s eclectic nightlife community came together at

Party Animals on Alert: Brooklyn Nightlife Awards to Go Down This Saturday at Lot 45

Party Animals on Alert: Brooklyn Nightlife Awards to Go Down This Saturday at Lot 45

All the craziest party animals of Brooklyn will come together this coming Saturday, March 21 at 9PM to Lot 45 (411 Troutman Ave)

Brooklyn Nightlife Awards Voting Has Just Started! Vote for Bushwick Daily as the Best Publisher

Brooklyn Nightlife Awards Voting Has Just Started! Vote for Bushwick Daily as the Best Publisher

Friends, for the past two years Bushwick Daily has been nominated as the Best Publisher at Brooklyn Nightlife Awards, and two times exactly we’ve lost to Next Magazine

Bushwick NYE Parties: Warehouse Ragers, DIY Feels or Foodie’s Heaven? We’ve Got It All!

Bushwick NYE Parties: Warehouse Ragers, DIY Feels or Foodie’s Heaven? We’ve Got It All!

 

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 […]

The Most Amazing & Exciting Drag Festival in NYC: Bushwig 2014 is Happening This Saturday

The Most Amazing & Exciting Drag Festival in NYC: Bushwig 2014 is Happening This Saturday

 

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

#BushwickPride March This Saturday Honors Trans Women of Color

#BushwickPride March This Saturday Honors Trans Women of Color

The NYC-wide Pride has passed two weeks ago, but it’s Bushwick who needs to see your supportive faces this coming Saturday! GLOBE, which is Brooklyn’s LGBTQ justice project of Make the Road NY will be hosting  the 9th Annual #BushwickPride march and celebration

BOS Final Blow Out at Bizarre with Meryl Meisler and her Two Tales

BOS Final Blow Out at Bizarre with Meryl Meisler and her Two Tales

Meryl Meisler’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick’ (Image courtesy of Meryl Meisler) At the end of a very festive and blissfully summery weekend the folks at Bizarre were ready to celebrate the end of Bushwick Open Studios with as many bangs as possible. Madame Vivien V hosted a hilarious and vivacious set of lip-synching performances to the hoots […]

Get Ready for the Most Glamorous Art Openings During BOS Weekend!

Get Ready for the Most Glamorous Art Openings During BOS Weekend!

Bushwick Open Studios is here again! Were you entirely exhausted after last year’s—running in and out of every single studio, opening door after door until you felt like you were in an M

Booming Bushwick Personas at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards 2014

Booming Bushwick Personas at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards 2014

The second annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards took place at Radio Bushwick last Sunday and celebrated the curated community of Brooklyn nightlife

“And the Nominees Are…” Brooklyn Nightlife Awards To Be Held This Sunday at Radio Bushwick

“And the Nominees Are…” Brooklyn Nightlife Awards To Be Held This Sunday at Radio Bushwick

Yes, you’ve been a good kid and partied whole year like a busy bee

Wild Performance Journey of Matthew Silver’s “Circus of Dreams”

Wild Performance Journey of Matthew Silver’s “Circus of Dreams”

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Music Is Happening: Top 8 Shows this Weekend

Music Is Happening: Top 8 Shows this Weekend

This week children went back to school (yay!), we voted in the primaries for Mayoral candidates of this great city (hey!), honored the sad anniversary of 9/11 (nay), some of us will be fasting for Yom Kippur (oy vey!), and some are anxiously waiting for the next Breaking Bad episode after that very intense episode (amirite?)

The Beautiful and the Bouffante at Bushwig 2013

The Beautiful and the Bouffante at Bushwig 2013

poses beneath the Bushwig sign for Bushwick Daily (all photos by Scarlett North-Cavanaugh)We think it’s safe to say that the second annual

Are You Young, Queer & Making Art or Music? You’re BANJI!

Are You Young, Queer & Making Art or Music? You’re BANJI!

“What is Banji?” I asked myself as I read an email from Babes announcing Saturday’s event in Secret Project Robot

Thursday Night DRAGnet Files and Fem Fatales

Thursday Night DRAGnet Files and Fem Fatales

“ID please,” requests the lady bouncer at the Metropolitan Bar

How Were Brooklyn Nightlife Awards & Who Won

How Were Brooklyn Nightlife Awards & Who Won

Brooklyn Nightlife Awards were the culmination of this past year’s talent, performance art, creative expression and entertainment in one of the city’s, and nation’s, most talked about and most artistic places, Brooklyn