If you don’t know Robbie Fulks you should. Call him country, alt country or whatever. He plays a mean guitar and writes funny, clever and yes, even poignant songs. If you read his blog, you’ll find that he’s probably one of the most literate musicians anywhere. If that’s not enough, Robbie moved to Brooklyn from [...]Freddy’s Bar is rising from the ashes. The bar, which was demolished to make way for the Atlantic Yards project and was a central meeting place in the battle against eminent domain abuse, is set to reopen on Friday, February 4th. Clear your calendar, folks. This is going to be a raucous good time. The [...]Brought to you by the Feldman Family from their local weather tower.
The new Queens West library from architect Steven Holl will be a bright beacon of light in an otherwise "soulless mix of generic apartment towers" in Long Island City, Queens. Far from a red-brick box, Holl's renderings show an 80-foot-tall aluminum rectangle with carved-out windows, which will "resemble caves dug into the wall of a cliff" at night. Phantasmagoric! [Curbed NY via NYT]
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On February 10th at 8PM at The Old Stone House my friend Nancy Graham will perform in a play developed through improvisation on the theme of giving. It’s called To: From It is sure to be an interesting evening and I hope you’ll join me there. To: From: an evening of improvisation on the theme [...]“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally shes going to adopt me and sivilize me and I cant stand it. I been there before.” From Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Today it is Sunday there’s the Muppet Vault: Sci-fi! for all ages at Union Hall. There are movies to see and tonight: Hot Holy Mess, Brooklyn’s own dirty church band at Barbes and a weekly comedy show hosted by Eugene Mirman and friends also at Union Hall (no, this isn’t an ad for Union Hall). [...]“But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally shes going to adopt me and sivilize me and I cant stand it. I been there before.” From Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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When I was child, Brownsville existed in a large enclave, the outer borders of which I was only dimly aware. Surrounded by the Negro violence of the Bedford-Stuyvesant district, the Nazi “gemutchlichkeit” of Ridgewood, the Slavic solemnity of East New York, the middle-class gentility of East Flatbush and the garbage dumps of Canarsie, Brownsville was [...]