Brooklyn
Gimme Art Builds Underground Art Community With “Urban Culture”
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Second base? No, event better! On Friday, the historic Irondale Center celebrated emerging experimental media themes with monthly art and music festival Gimme Art’s Urban Culture event. Sipping booze from Colt 45, artists of multiple disciplines got their creativity on for the Brooklyn based not-for-profit, an organization showing “what makes Brooklyn” while building an underground art community. More »
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The Fugs Make A Rare Appearance At Rock4Rorz Benefit Concert
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Some of New York’s newest bands rocked Brooklyn’s The Bell House last Wednesday as part of Rock4Rorz, a benefit concert for Rory O’Sullivan, a young filmmaker diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Boondock Saint Norman Reedus and a slew of musicians, including White Williams, Acrylics, Golden Triangle, The Fugs, and DJs Ben Brunnerner and Alex Dirttt donated their time and talent to raise awareness for brain cancer, a disease affecting adults between the ages 20 and 39. More story and photos. More »
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Resource Magazine Throws A Greenpoint Spring Event
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Resource Magazine teamed up with Jewel Street Studios for a Spring Event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The party featured a mix of live bands and DJs, including local duo Merrady and Gene, Miami-based The JeanMarie, and DJ Kid Magic. For those not into photography, Resource is a free NYC publication about the workings of the photo industry. More photos below… More »
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Apes & Androids Color Up The Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Rolling Stone has called Apes & Androids: “A dance floor-ready cocktail of Queen’s bombast (complete with Freddie Mercury’s falsetto), 1980s Prince, Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie and Beck’s Midnight Vultures.” And last Friday was no different. As the band wowed the crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Nicky Digital went backstage to capture the band as they prepared with loads of balloons.
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Adrien Grenier Takes On Brooklyn With His Honey Brothers
What does Adrien Grenier do when he’s not playing lackadaisical Hollywood supernova Vince on HBO’s super successful, fantastical TV show ‘Entourage’? If you guessed drum in a fairly generic alt-rock band called the Honey Brothers, then high marks and a smiley face for you today, ’cause you’re absolutely right.
‘The Honey Brothers‘ will be performing this Saturday at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg.
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Eavesdropping Is What Guests Do Best…
- What? Real World Brooklyn is ready to air but it’s all the same [curbed]
- Some people on Facebook are ignorant and don’t like Obama [Mollygood]
- Well that’s ok because Obama is not at all ignorant about our nation’s secrets [DailyNews]
- Coming to your local bodega- 6 cents plastic bags-save money, the environment [Gothamist]
- The recession lets you eat yummy for less money!!! [GrubStreet]
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Heath Ledger’s Bar Five Leaves Officially Opens
Heath Ledgers’ Bar “Five Leaves” has just opened up in Brooklyn. Urbandaddy has the scoop:
First, the designer is the man behind such barroom favorites as Moto, Smith and Mills and Tailor, so you’ll notice the same attention to detail, handcrafted look and hint of cool about the place. The end effect is a bar that Thomas Edison might have built for his buddies.
It’s all meant to be a super casual California- and Australia-tinged cafe, coffeehouse and oyster bar, with greenmarket snacks like Sliced Radishes on Toast with Evans Farmhouse Butter. And starting with tonight’s friends and family opening party, you’ll probably see a few famous faces amongst the Billyburg faithful.
[Heath Ledger Rolled His Cigarettes In Swan Papers?]
[The Meaning Behind The Five Leaves]
Five Leaves, 18 Bedford Ave (at Lorimer and Nassau), Brooklyn
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Semi Precious Weapons Gets Evicted For Sewage Plant
From our tip line:
Greenpoint based rock band semi-precious-weapons get kicked out of their loft!
In the video above, Justin Tranter of Semi Precious Weapons shows his eviction notice. The famous fabulous SPW rockNroll loft is being turned into offices for the sewage plant next door.
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Wilco Takes On Brooklyn
I am consistently blown away by any live Wilco performance. Last night’s show at McCarren Park was no exception - a gorgeous evening with a nice breeze, standing but a few meters away from the stage where Jeff Tweedy in his stylin’ lime green blazer was clearly in my line of vision - who could ask for a more serene and blissful August evening?
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The Meaning Behind “The Five Leaves”
From Anonymous commenter today on our Five Leaves post:
“I don’t think Heath rolled Swans… however he had stated that his favourite artist was a man by the name of Nick Drake whom had a album named “Five Leaves Left.” That most likely is how the name came about. Anyhow I’m sure the bar will be incredible and is a great way to remember a great actor.”
Maybe DBTH was wrong about where the name came from….but he did go all the way across the river to snatch the pictures for us (that he is so adamant about us crediting). In any event, we agree that the place will most likely be a good way to remember the great actor.
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Heath Ledger Rolled His Cigarettes In Swan Papers?
There’s a new bar on the watch list. The corner of Lorimer and Bedford, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is set to be home of “The Five Leaves”, a bar that will be opened by one of Heath Ledger’s good friends. In fact, Ledger was a “key backer of the project and was going to be a full partner.” (From “Heath Ledger’s Final Act.”):
[Photo via DBTH]
His untimely death put the project in jeopardy, but his father became executor of the estate, and because he knew how much the project meant to Heath, he released the funds to finish construction. The name Five Leaves is a working name, and comes from Swan cigarette papers that tell you when there are just five left in a package. [DBTH]
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