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WG News + Arts Issue #34 Valentine
The latest issue of the WG is out. Some cool stories for you’all… including interview with Futura2000, food reviews, and sneak underground into the Underbelly Project… and more. Copies are available all around the neighborhood.
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OP/ED A 21st Century Manhattan Project—Williamsburg Version
The explosive growth of high-tech firms in NYC is signaling the birth of new 21st-century technology that is replacing the moribund and defunct blue collar manufacturing of the 20th century. Brooklyn’s DUMBO can attest to the successful conversion of manufacturing and warehouse buildings into high-tech firms. Even downtown Brooklyn will spawn additional high-tech facilities, as New York University is interested in establishing its applied science and urban facility at the former New York City Transit building on Jay Street. I propose that the ideal location for new high-tech expansion be in Williamsburg-Greenpoint, which has a number of advantages over DUMBO, downtown Brooklyn, and Roosevelt Island….
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Three Ladies of Chill Repute
Want a formula for getting your (totally deserving, yet under-appreciated) artwork out of your studio and into a larger context? Want to join that invisible art world phenomenon called “The Dialogue”? Find yourself a middle-aged lady who curates. Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s true. My own statistical research has proved it….
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The Best North Brooklyn Street Art of 2011
One of the pleasures for street art watchers is that every season a new batch of artists and work appear. New styles crop up, older styles wilt away, and there’s something for everyone.
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The Gallerist—It’s Always Valentine’s Day in Ridgewood
Valentine forged his curatorial program in the school of hard knocks by way of pure insight. The former co-founder of The Mustard Factory and Galapagos’ Curator, he came to Ridgewood in 1999 long before it was on the greater artworld’s mental map.
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Trent’s Artsy Gift Guide
Despite its recent condofication, Williamsburg is still an artistic bastion at heart. Here some of the neighborhood’s holiday gift offerings for the aesthete in your life. Curated by Trent Morse
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Recipe—Landhaus Bacon
Once the bacon is roasted it can be browned and used anywhere you would like thick delicious chunks of tender bacon: sandwiches, scrambled eggs, clam chowder, on macaroni and cheese—the sky is the limit.
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Local Greek Bailout experiment continues…
Update: (Dec. 9) THE EXPERIMENT CONTINUES… “Don’t be afraid of the ‘pay what you feel deal,’” says Paula Douralas, Santorini Grill owner. TELL US YOUR EXPERIENCE.
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Co-Op 87 Putting a Good Spin on Vinyl
The sidewalk outside the entrance to Co-Op 87, covered with crates and boxes of $1 records, feels like your old college buddy’s apartment: stockpiles of stuff that live where it lands. But inside there’s a sense of cozy calm, like a warm library. That is, if libraries played loud post-punk albums.
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Days of Blueberry Wine & Lobster Rolls
To be clear, this is a lobster “joint” not a “shack.” There are no dime store fish nets, colorful buoys, or sticky old ketchup stains permanently left on weathered picnic table, but instead it’s spic-and-span, with white tiled walls and picnic-style tables that are made of knotty old English pine and polished to a river stone smoothness.
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Alternative culture hub plan for Domino Sugar factory comes into focus.
While CPCR may be on the hunt for cash, a community group is seizing the hiatus to revive interest in an alternative plan that envisions the site as a mixed-use “cultural hub” that includes galleries, event spaces, a hotel, and a marina, as well as 200 affordable housing units.
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“Stations Lost” — A two-man play at The Boiler
Fitzpatrick is one of those rare artists whose work is its own universe that he invites his patrons to inhabit. Fitzpatrick’s work is likely to draw comparisons to Henry Darger and Daniel Johnston, except Fitzpatrick isn’t crazy (at least not clinically.)
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The Making of Maison Premiere
From the minute it opened, Maison Premiere made a big splash with food critics. “The New York Times” says it’s better than what it tries to imitate—an old seafood bar in New Orleans.
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Ground Control to Linda Griggs: long flight back from “cyberspace”
Is there such a thing as an altruistic person in our narcissistic art world? And, if there were a truly generous artist out there—a real artist, who still managed to promote his or her career while helping others—where or how would such acts of kindness take place?
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Kid Flight: The “Education Mayor” causes children to flee with parents in tow (part I)
After thirty years in the community, Phil DePaolo is leaving Williamsburg because, he says, the NYC schools are hopeless. Private school is out of his financial reach and he wants his two sons to have a good education.
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43 Magazine Launches—Interview with Allen Ying
Allen Ying, admired in skateboarder circles for his gravity-defying shots of skaters flying through the air, celebrated the results of a Kickstarter fundraising campaign this past August, earning more than the goal of $20,000. This means a green light for his brainchild 43 magazine…
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Natural Wine: A Welcome Throwback
Today, people tend to confuse natural wine with organic wine. In fact, they are two very different species.
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A Chocolatier in Our Midst
If anyone can sell luxury chocolate in a recession, it’s Maribel of MarieBelle Chocolates, with her deep-dimpled smile, her effervescent charm, and the inspiring story of a young woman who came to New York from Honduras to study fashion design, but ended up owning one of the most stylish chocolate companies in the big city.
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Ai Weiwei Recognized by an American Scholar 25 Years Ago
… it was Gould who’d given the now infamously incarcerated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei his first-ever U.S. group show. To my reporter’s mind, interviewing him while sitting somewhere between the bronze rooster and bronze dog’s head of Ai Weiwei’s newest public sculpture …
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Beauty and The Tattoo
This phenomenon now decorates a much wider slice of the population, including lawyers, bankers, doctors, and cops.
Eating Around: Osteria il Paiolo
A white tablecloth restaurant in the heart of Williamsburg. That is so rare. But chef and owner Alex Palumbo wishes to give his customers an elegant dining experience, although he is aware that this white tablecloth business is scaring away many young ones.
Book Boys, Book Boys … Whatcha Gonna Do….
Sleepless and over-caffeinated, we wait in line in the cold and rain, then, when they open the doors, we stampede the books … literally fighting each other for the gems. The non-dealers would get in the way of our work. Alan would refer to them condescendingly as civilians. The opposite being the Book Thugs….
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December 15, 2011
Commentary: No Jail Time for Scarano, Business as Usual
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October 14, 2011
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February 18, 2011
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January 29, 2011
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September 9, 2010
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September 13, 2011
43 Magazine Launches—Interview with Allen Ying
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September 13, 2011
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September 9, 2010
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May 29, 2010
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May 7, 2010
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January 30, 2012OP/ED A 21st Century Manhattan Project—Williamsburg Version
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December 8, 2011
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February 18, 2011
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August 15, 2010
Op-Ed / “No Bike is Safe on Bedford Av” says Williamsburg Courier
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June 22, 2010
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December 10, 2011Trent’s Artsy Gift Guide
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October 31, 2011
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January 29, 2011
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December 10, 2010
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November 27, 2010
