In the basement of a modern apartment building set among Bushwick’s industrial buildings and new restaurants, there’s a row of nondescript storage units. Lucia Rollow, a recent college graduate, recently purchased one, but she’s not storing winter clothes or old yearbooks in there. Inside her unit she’s set up the Bushwick Community Darkroom.
Category: <span>Arts & Culture</span>
Michael Moore occupies BookCourt
Michael Moore has spent the last three weeks at Occupy Wall Street, but it was a Brooklyn bookstore he occupied Friday night. The activist filmmaker came to BookCourt, one of the oldest bookshops of the borough, to read from his new collection of short stories “Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life.” And Brooklyn was...
Praise for the Good Book (Store)
It was hard to find a seat at the Old First Church on the corner of Carroll Street and Seventh Avenue last Saturday afternoon. People filled the benches, jealously guarding places for their latecomer friends. A man with a feather earring sat by a quiet old woman. A group of tattooed twenty-somethings laughed, as if remembering...
VIDEO: Brooklyn’s Urban Explorers
They sneak into Brooklyn’s subway tunnels, they climb bridges, they wander in decaying hospitals and factories. Shane Perez and Miru Kim are urban explorers. For art and for sheer pleasure, they roam trough the borough’s underbelly. Louis Imbert went along for a tour.
From Persian Cats to Yellow Dogs
The Yellow Dogs, an underground Iranian rock band from Tehran, Iran recently moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They've made it to America, but where do they go from here?
From Russia With Love and Propaganda
This is how the world looks on Russia's government owned Channel One
Video – Hack Attack in Brooklyn
NYC Resistor is a shared space in Brooklyn where a group of 'hackers' take apart electronics and put them together again to create a variety of weird and wonderful inventions. These self-proclaimed 'nerds' aren't going to break into your Facebook account, though; this generation of 'hackers' does things differently. Van Tieu meets them.
The Secret Feast
Underground dinners are the latest trend in eating out. They’ve been popular for a long time in Latin America, known as “Paladars” or “Restaurante de Puertas Cerradas” (locked door restaurants). They’ve made their way to the United States and Europe and now also to Brooklyn. Danielle Bengsch looks behind the scenes of a secret cookery...
Video – Las Vegas on Brighton Beach
They call it "Sex and the City meets Sleepless on Brighton Beach," but Tatiana Restaurant is so much more.
“Cirque du Critique”
By Mustafa Mehdi Vural Tuan Le, 33, and his girl friend Vanessa Alvarez, 28, rushed from the subway on Sunday afternoon to Whitman Auditorium at Brooklyn College to see the show of Chinese Acrobats of Hebei. “My girlfriend loves Chinese Acrobatics,” said Vietnam-born, Germany-raised Le. “I do little bit the same thing,” added Alvarez, smiling....