Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Art Upstate Art Scene Gets Boost with New NADA Art Fair in Hudson
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Remember how last summer we suggested you travel up the beautiful Hudson River Valley to take in some of the region's world-class art institutions? Well this summer there'll be another must-see stop on your upstate art day trip: the NADA Art Fair in Hudson on July 30 and 31.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Special Events Photos and a Video from Brooklyn Magazine Launch Party
Posted by Sarah Shanfield on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM
As you may have heard, there's a new magazine on the streets called Brooklyn Magazine, and we're proud to say we made it with our own two collective hands. Last Friday, we celebrated our creation with a launch party at Causey Contemporary Gallery in Williamsburg. Snacks were savored, gift bags were treasured, and in between sips of Brooklyn Brewery beer, I <3 Boy photographer Jessica Yatrofsky took some stellar polaroids and video (available after the jump). Tag yourself and your friends in these portraits on facebook.
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News Atlantic Yards Causes Bike-SUV Collision
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:25 PM
Last week a bicycle deliveryman was killed on the Upper East Side after a car swerved to avoid Second Avenue subway construction and cut off a city bus, which hit the cyclist, and last night construction blockages precipitated a non-fatal bicycle collision in Brooklyn: the Park Slope Patch reports that shortly after 10pm an SUV hit a cyclist at the intersection of Dean Street and Sixth Avenue after the driver's view of the oncoming rider was blocked by big blue Atlantic Yards construction walls.
Art / News DUMBO's New Cultural Affairs Director Has Top-Shelf Art World Credentials
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- An outdoor installation by Natsu at the Dumbo Arts Festival.
Last month Zannah Mass left her job as the Cultural Affairs Director for Two Trees Management—the real estate company that owns most of DUMBO, oversees the DUMBO Arts Festival (pictured) and keeps a strong set of arts groups in the area—a post she'd held since 2007. Now, DumboNYC reports that Lisa Kim has been selected as Mass's successor, and she brings some pretty hefty art world muscle to the job.
News Carroll Gardens Kids Forced to Take Patriotism "Litmus Test"
Posted by Henry Stewart on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:57 PM
Art Where's Williamsburg Waldo? New Local Tumblr Knows
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:02 PM
The hilarious new sticker art Tumblr Williamsburg Waldo (the work of local graphic designer Daniel Savage) explains: "Waldo got some horn rim glasses, some skinnies, a pair of clae's and is wandering around Williamsburg. Help us find him!" The hipsterified Waldo sticker is shown on L train signage, subway billboards (as above), and even the back of a soap dispenser in the bathroom at Oak. Have you seen him? (DesignYouTrust)
Music More Musicians Announce Releases to Benefit Japan
Posted by Sydney Brownstone on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:13 PM
The Morning Benders have made available for download their Japan Echo EP, eight tracks with contributions from artists Wild Nothing, Twin Sister, Star Slinger and more. All proceeds go to the Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund.
Special Events $1 Heineken Drafts at Literary Upstart Tomorrow Night
Posted by Mark Asch on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM
There, four of the city's best unknown writers will read short, previously unpublished fiction, vying for the ultimate approval of our panel of judges: Distinguished Spokesjudge Ben Greenman, Electric Literature cofounder Andy Hunter, literary agent Katherine Fausset, the New School's Luis Jaramillo, HarperCollins and Fifty-Two Stories' Cal Morgan, and the L's Adam Bonislawski.
And for you—for everyone, really. For humanity—there'll be dollar beers. (As you know, because you clicked through the title of this post.) Dollar Heineken drafts, starting at 7pm and continuing through 8pm. So we'll expect to see you there, supporting new writing and cheap beer, without which there would be no new writing.
Food & Drink Choice Eats 2011: Lowly Intern Prepares To Overeat at Tonight's Food Festival
Posted by Tom Sullivan on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:37 AM
T-minus a bit less than 7 hours until Choice Eats 2011, where the Village Voice challenges me to sample food from several dozen different restaurants hand picked by Voice food critic Robert Sietsema, and I take it on, with varying results. Perhaps I'll have to be rolled out, or I'll walk out unscathed, but regardless the event—which is being held yet again tonight at the 69th Armory on Lexington Avenue at 26th Street from 6:30-9:30pm—will prove to be either incredible, heart attack-inducing, or a little bit of both.
Books The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Oliver Broudy
Posted by Mark Asch on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:48 AM
For our readers who may not be familiar with your work, what’s the most accurate thing someone else has said about it?
"This small, extraordinary book has more to say about life, disappointment, New York, Tibet, India, the holy, and the profane, than most other books could say in ten times as many pages. Oliver Broudy's astounding, funny, harrowing, and finally quite sad experience with a millionaire philanthropist and arch eccentric—a man as saintly as he is demonic—is conveyed in prose as startling as cold water. This is a book I deeply envy, a book I will read again—probably immediately."
Tom Bissell (author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter)
Music Watch the New Pains of Being Pure at Heart Video (Also Go Buy Their New Record)
Posted by Mike Conklin on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM
To coincide with the release of their outstanding sophomore full-length, Belong, former L Mag "8 NYC Band You Need to Hear" the Pains of Being Pure at Heart drop the video for the album's first single, "Heart in Your Heartbreak," and it is a doozy, replete with mullets, theft and arguments about the proper height at which to hold your bass guitar. Check back in tomorrow for much more with the Pains, but in the meantime, here you go.
Theater #serials@TheFlea, Week 3 Recap: Taking Liberties with Mythology, Libertines and Cereal Puns
Posted by Ryan Vlastelica on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Pro-incumbent fever swept #serials this past week, with neither new show garnering enough votes to move onto the next round, whenever that is. I am both startled and a little dismayed by the results; I thought both newcomers were fascinating and creative and I wouldn't have been disappointed to see either of them return. While I'm halfway tempted to throw up a Citizen Kane-style FRAUD AT POLLS headline on this sucker, I must accept the will of the drunken late-night people and move on. It certainly isn't as though the week's winners weren't worthwhile too.
Monday, March 28, 2011
News City-Suing Slope Bike Lane-Bashers Dispute DoT Data
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM
Back in January the city's Department of Transportation published a report that seemed to indicate the overwhelmingly beneficial effects of the epically disputed Prospect Park West bike lane, like dramatically reduced speeding, fewer accidents and virtually no additional gridlock. Auto-dependent borough president Marty Markowitz wasn't buying it; nor was the small group of well-connected Park Slopers currently suing the city to have the lane removed, who were quick to dispute the apparent benefits. Now the NIMBY group is picking apart specific stats from the DoT report.
Music / Theater City Opera's Monodramas Shows Every Generation Gets the Music It Deserves
Posted by Henry Stewart on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM
News Marty's Bike Hate Explained: Markowitz Is an Automobile Addict
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:43 PM
We've long been puzzled by Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz's near-schizophrenic attitudes towards the borough's cycling community, at times seeming to encourage it, but more often going hard against it. Now it all makes sense: Marty's addicted to cars.
Music Watch Shark? Perform Live for Newtown Radio
Posted by Mike Conklin on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Well, this is certainly a pleasant surprise on an otherwise incredibly boring Monday. Awkwardly punctuated local band Shark? was recently filmed performing their excellent self-titled song (yes, you read it right) for Newtown Radio. This is the first song of theirs I ever heard, and to their credit, they've only gotten better and better. Consider picking up their new 7" for proof. Or at least consider listening to it.
Music / Politics Ted Leo Sings Woody Guthrie in Support of Wisconsin Laborers, but What the Fuck is Going on in Michigan?
Posted by Sydney Brownstone on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM
The Wisconsin protests have been receiving a fair amount of press, but what about Michigan's "Emergency Manager" law? Signed into effect March 16th, so far the controversial decision has attracted little mainstream attention or upset.
As The Wall Street Journal reported:
Music Guess Who the Big Winners Were at the JUNO Awards This Weekend
Posted by Lauren Beck on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- The JUNO Awards
News Halsey Street L Stop: Deadliest Subway Station?
Posted by Henry Stewart on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM
Fashion / News Brooklyn Flea's Williamsburg Waterfront Expansion Opens Sunday
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM
We first heard about it last December, and now it's time for the Brooklyn Flea to step out for the spring and summer: Sunday (not Saturday, as reported in the Brooklyn Paper) will mark the weekend shopping destination's debut on the Williamsburg waterfront. The Flea will take up the waterfront lot along the East River between North 6th and North 7th Streets every Saturday from April 3 through November 20.
