St. Anthony’s Church strikes ten, and in the back room of Coco 66 in Greenpoint, heavy formica bar tables and flimsy matchbook chairs are the only audience members for three jazz musicians, a standup bassist, a trumpeter, and a sturdy white-haired flugelhorn player. These guys are playing it cool, but there’s something strange going on [...]
Lady Gaga is one of those ground-breaking new artists who comes around only once in a blue moon. On Friday, The Gaga played a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, where thousands of young Lady Gaga-esque creatures, whom, she herself calls “her little monsters,” showed up decked out like their idol in all manner of [...]
Photo & story by Luisa Caldwell
Williamsburg resident John Englemann, whose stage name is a mythical date—”March Thirty Seventh”—played Electronica music in the Dubspot line-up in the Meat packing District this past week during the Make Music NY events. I went to watch him perform and also enjoyed several other Make Music locations on the way. It was [...]
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By Mary Yeung
Photo by Bess Adler
Whenever someone asks me if I know of any hidden gems in Williamsburg, I always tell them about Vutera, the romantic little restaurant that’s hidden inside the very popular Rose Live Music Bar, where musician’s musicians congregate. The bar and the restaurant are a labor of love [...]
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By Lucas Kavner
The Open Space Alliance walks a complicated line. On the one hand you have a community-based organization that, through private fundraising, works to improve and create public spaces and develop a diverse array of programming for North Brooklyn. On the other hand you have Stephanie Thayer. Thayer is the OSA’s executive director, but [...]
Photos by Heather Mulcahey
Bushwick Supply, the highly anticipated sister shop to the Williamsburg music emporium Main Drag, opened its doors last week. Located just east of Bushwick Ave (Montrose station on the L) they launched with a bash.
Greenpoint as everyone knows is home to a large Polish community. The recent untimely death of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other high-ranking Polish officials in a plane crash, last week, has put the Polish community in a tailspin. This terribly unfortunate event, strangely coincides with the week of the premiere of [...]