See 18+ bands for $25 in East Williamsburg at Out In The Streets this month
It is very actively summer, and we are deep in the heart of summer festival season. Out in an up-and-coming little neighborhood called "East Williamsburg" (perhaps you've heard of it? Perhaps all your...
View ArticlePark Slope’s Union Hall fully reopening July 21, celebrating with $3 Sixpoints
Huzzah! Back in March, a fire wreaked havoc on the insides of beloved Park Slope music venue and bar Union Hall. This being Brooklyn, where local businesses permanently shutter for problems far less...
View ArticleParty at Park Slope’s Superhero store for Untapped Cities’‘Secret Brooklyn’...
As Brooklyn's profile as a hub of artisanal, hipster, Millennial culture has risen in recent years, so have the number of tour books touting their insider knowledge and trustworthy listicles of the...
View ArticleSee Flying Lotus’ KUSO, ‘the grossest film ever made’ for free at House of...
At its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, The Verge called KUSO, the debut film from Steve Ellison – better known to the world as musical artist Flying Lotus – "the grossest film...
View ArticlePrepare yourself for Brokelyn Beach Club and unlimited booze at the Coney Art...
If you’re still pining for that long-weekend Fourth of July party, fear not, because your next summer rager is right around the corner. Clear your calendars for the first ever Brokelyn Beach Club, Aug....
View ArticleFreddy’s 4th annual doggy fashion show is this Saturday
Freddy's Bar (627 5th Ave.) will be hosting its 4th annual doggy fashion show this Saturday, July 15, from 5 to 9pm on 5th Ave. between 17th and 18th streets. The streets will be closed (to cars) for...
View ArticleFinger provocative pages at this weekend’s Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair
It’s so hot today the city has declared a heat advisory, but this weekend might be even steamier when the first-ever Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair sets up sexy shop at Point Green, a new photo studio and...
View ArticleOperate water robots and canoe on the Gowanus Canal for free tomorrow
As Brooklyn becomes ever cleaner and more gentrified, our putrid, polluted, or otherwise filthy remnants become more and more hilariously beloved. That Coney Island is a dirty, sand-wasteland of...
View ArticleLocals to hold ‘open forum’ in front of Crown Heights’‘bullet-hole’-touting bar
On Monday, a wildly tone deaf press release landed in the inboxes of a variety of local journalists. Intended to promote the offerings and "surf club-style" energy of a new "boozy sandwich shop" in a...
View ArticleRiders Alliance hosting happy hour to talk about NYC’s bus problems in...
For all the talk of transit delays and MTA woes, New York City's bus network is hardly mentioned. For anyone, though, who has had to venture beyond the reach of subway, out where the sidewalks end and...
View ArticleSmall Brooklyn businesses: Google is having a free workshop on Flatbush Ave....
There's a lot of free advice out there, and plenty of it is bad. As one of the tech world's Big Three, Google will probably virtually replace democracy in years to come and rule us all with microchips,...
View ArticleStoop is stage in Bed-Stuy this weekend at pop-up neighborhood art crawl
Ahh, the stoop. It's hard to explain the beauty of the stoop to those not familiar: It is not Brooklyn's answer to the backyard, no, and it's not merely an aesthetic accoutrement meant to add a feeling...
View ArticlePark Slope’s Union Hall fully reopening July 21, celebrating with $3 Sixpoints
Huzzah! Back in March, a fire wreaked havoc on the insides of beloved Park Slope music venue and bar Union Hall. This being Brooklyn, where local businesses permanently shutter for problems far less...
View ArticleSee Italian opera in a former Bushwick bus depot next month
It is a testament to the beauty and accessibility of Brooklyn's theater scene that affordable opera can be performed in a former industrial space. No matter your feelings on "immersive" theater,...
View ArticleGet trashed collecting trash Sunday at Bushwick litter for booze exchange
If all of New York City were to instate this kind of barter economy, there's a good possibility the streets would be clear of waste and the civilians wasted on a daily basis (is it a coincidence so...
View ArticleWe’re giving away 100 tickets to OctFest beer, food and music festival
Put down your beer, and stop what you're doing. (If you’re reading this in the morning and are currently drinking beer, this is even more urgent for you.) There is an amazing beer and music festival in...
View ArticleBachata punk party Bodega Island Fest coming to East W’burg next month
The self-proclaimed "biggest & dopest indie, merengue, alternative, bachata, punk music festival in the world," is back on Saturday, September 9th at The Paper Box (17 Meadow St.) in East...
View ArticleBrooklyn Bike Jumble returning to Park Slope this weekend
From an insider's perspective, it's a dope event which, especially if you bike, is worth stopping by at. From an outsider's perspective, it's the most Brooklyn thing to ever happen (excluding a future...
View ArticleGay comedy show with free sausages, $8 cocktails coming to W’burg
This isn't your average sausage fest, mainly because the sausages are literal, and it's gonna be gay as hell. Brokelyn's resident hilarious superstar Bobby Hankinson (who helped edit this post) is...
View ArticleA mostly free 4-day Icelandic culture festival is coming to North Brooklyn
Expand your understanding of Iceland beyond "that place which looks like a moon and has cheap layovers and dope looking hot springs," into an actual understanding of the country this month at a...
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