Brooklyn (New York City)

"Red Hook Summer": Spike Lee Goes Back to Brooklyn

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Naked Is the New Black

Vegan Speed Dating, Puppy Bowl, Mini Corn Dogs, and Hemp Tofu!

​ • You've probably all seen this video of Kristen "I'm a vegetarian because I'm half-rad" Bell sobbing over a sloth on your Facebook feed but now, take the time to watch it! Because it's pretty fucking adorable! She has a panic attack from happiness, which I guess is the best kind of panic atta ... More >>

Eleanor Friedberger: Show Preview

​ • You've probably all seen this video of Kristen "I'm a vegetarian because I'm half-rad" Bell sobbing over a sloth on your Facebook feed but now, take the time to watch it! Because it's pretty fucking adorable! She has a panic attack from happiness, which I guess is the best kind of panic atta ... More >>

Good Food Awards Brings a Beer Garden to the Ferry Building

The Good Food Awards is kind of like the Oscars, only a touch less glamorous and a lot more focused on cured meat and pickles. This weekend, awards will be given out in categories such as charcuterie, cheese, coffee, and chocolate. If you ask us, those are a lot more exciting than Best Costume Desig ... More >>

More Than Just a Pretty ... Face

The Good Food Awards is kind of like the Oscars, only a touch less glamorous and a lot more focused on cured meat and pickles. This weekend, awards will be given out in categories such as charcuterie, cheese, coffee, and chocolate. If you ask us, those are a lot more exciting than Best Costume Desig ... More >>

Two Sisters Bar & Books Opens Friday and ACRE/SF Sells Coffee and Clothing

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>

In Print: The Cool Kids Are Happy to Record for Mountain Dew, and More

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: The Cool Kids​The Cool Kids: Chuck Inglish, one half of Chicago's retro-styled rappers the Cool Kids, is speaking about releasing the duo's new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, through a quasirecord label funded by Mountain Dew, the lurid-colored so ... More >>

Seasunz on Hip-Hop Activism, Spirituality, and Speaking Klingon

​Ashel Eldridge has made the rounds. Otherwise known as Seasunz, Eldridge has emerged as a social and environmental activist, working with groups like Amazon Watch and Project Pink and partnering with Will.i.am to open a youth center in Oakland. And, lest we forget, he also makes music. In ju ... More >>

The Godfather of Fairs

​Ashel Eldridge has made the rounds. Otherwise known as Seasunz, Eldridge has emerged as a social and environmental activist, working with groups like Amazon Watch and Project Pink and partnering with Will.i.am to open a youth center in Oakland. And, lest we forget, he also makes music. In ju ... More >>

MP3 Premiere: Spook-Folk From Brooklyn's O'Death, Playing Tomorrow at the Independent

Steven Oberlechner​Long-buzzed-about Brooklyn quintet O'Death is coming to town to prepare us for the gentle passage into pillowy nothingness that awaits us all. Oh, and also for their new album. They have a new album. It's called Outside, and it's coming out in mid-April on Ernest Jenning Record ... More >>

FreQ Nasty: Show Preview

Steven Oberlechner​Long-buzzed-about Brooklyn quintet O'Death is coming to town to prepare us for the gentle passage into pillowy nothingness that awaits us all. Oh, and also for their new album. They have a new album. It's called Outside, and it's coming out in mid-April on Ernest Jenning Record ... More >>

Be Kind, Rewind

Steven Oberlechner​Long-buzzed-about Brooklyn quintet O'Death is coming to town to prepare us for the gentle passage into pillowy nothingness that awaits us all. Oh, and also for their new album. They have a new album. It's called Outside, and it's coming out in mid-April on Ernest Jenning Record ... More >>

San Francycle: Internerds React to 1st SF Bike Party on Social Media

​Not to generalize or anything, but gee whiz, there seems to be a lot of overlap between people who like the Internet and people who like bicycles. Is there any other city in the country with so many residents who know how to Tweet and also know how to lube a bike chain? (Okay, yes, Brooklyn, ... More >>

Brooklyn's Blue Bottle East an Outpost of S.F. Coffee Culture

Alex HochmanBlue Bottle's 10-month-old outpost in Williamsburg gives off a strong whiff of West Coast Third Wave.​Though we'd trekked over 3-foot-high snowdrifts to get inside, one glance around Blue Bottle's Brooklyn outpost and we felt right at home. Multiple slow-dripper setup? Check. Chemi ... More >>

Sub Swara: Show Preview

Alex HochmanBlue Bottle's 10-month-old outpost in Williamsburg gives off a strong whiff of West Coast Third Wave.​Though we'd trekked over 3-foot-high snowdrifts to get inside, one glance around Blue Bottle's Brooklyn outpost and we felt right at home. Multiple slow-dripper setup? Check. Chemi ... More >>

Brenmar Plays Santa Claus, Offers Up A Stream of His At It Again EP

Brenmar​If you were lucky enough to catch Brenmar at Icee Hot last month, then you know the Brooklyn-based house producer is in a creative zone right now, combining the tropical, drum-heavy sounds currently trending with the '90s influences of his native Chicago. And now, along with Discobelle Rec ... More >>

Bear Hands: Show Preview

Brenmar​If you were lucky enough to catch Brenmar at Icee Hot last month, then you know the Brooklyn-based house producer is in a creative zone right now, combining the tropical, drum-heavy sounds currently trending with the '90s influences of his native Chicago. And now, along with Discobelle Rec ... More >>

An Open Letter from Blue Bottle to the Dolores Park Community

Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

Show Preview: Dirty Projectors

Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

Watch Tamaryn's Trippy Video for "Love Fade"

Many on the Internet -- including us -- have been making positive noises about San Francisco-via-Brooklyn band Tamaryn for a while now (at least, a while in web time). Today, the duo releases its debut album, The Waves, on the Mexican Summer label. The album is loaded with enough ethereal syn ... More >>

Berkeley Writer Ayelet Waldman's Red Hook Road Inspired By Bach, Steve Reich

Jennifer ChaneyAyelet Waldman​New York Times best-selling author and Berkeley resident Ayelet Waldman released a new book today called Red Hook Road. She and her husband, Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, have been called "a famous- ... More >>

Oneohtrix Point Never Isn't Interested in the Dancefloor

Oneohtrix Point NeverOften, when one thinks of the phrase "electronic music," images of bombastic raves, fist-pumping DJs, knob-twiddlers behind laptops, and similar clichés are conjured up along with memories of deafening bass timbres, hard-hitting beats, and various warped sound effects from the ... More >>

Should Authorities Ease Regulations on Small, Local Food Vendors?

Jesse Friedman/FlickrShould sellers at events like the SF Underground Market be exempt form normal licensing regulations?​Our favorite morsels from the Web. The LA Times Monday picked up AP writer Dinesh Ramde's report on licensing restrictions easing for small food vendors in Maine and Wisco ... More >>

S.F. Sandwich Culture is Cool, But New York's No. 7 Sub Goes Beyond

jasonlam/FlickrBraised lamb sandwich at No. 7 Sub in Manhattan.​San Franciscans tiring (somehow) of porchetta sandwiches at Il Cane Rosso and drippy subs at the possibly doomed Ike's might want to catch a plane east. A not-so-old Brooklyn-based college friend of ours is gleefully scrambling th ... More >>

Jell-O Mold Competition Dares to Dream Beyond the Shot

Raphael Brion/Eat Me DailyJell-O caviar, an entry in last year's contest.​From molded salads that wowed 1950s dinner parties to Bill Cosby's Jigglers and vividly colored "shots" sucked out of flimsy paper cups by Jersey Shore cast members, Jell-O is an enduring cultural phenomenon, one that ha ... More >>

Cooking Channel's FoodCrafters Highlights S.F. Sweets Purveyors

missionlocal.org​Local confectioners Kika's Treats, Sweet Revolution, and {cocoa} are profiled on "Sweet," the third episode of FoodCrafters, a program about edible artisans hosted by San Francisco resident Aida Mollenkamp for the new Cooking Channel. The trio of sinful sweet purveyors will jo ... More >>

RSVP Now for Next Week's Free Madécasse Chocolate Tasting in SOMA

couj1980/Flickr​Brooklyn chocolatier (and maker of vanilla products) Madécasse, looking for more visibility and wholesale accounts in this discerning chocolate-lovers' market, will host a free tasting in San Francisco next week at HubSoMa. It'll be a rare opportunity to taste artisan products ... More >>

Concert preview: The National

couj1980/Flickr​Brooklyn chocolatier (and maker of vanilla products) Madécasse, looking for more visibility and wholesale accounts in this discerning chocolate-lovers' market, will host a free tasting in San Francisco next week at HubSoMa. It'll be a rare opportunity to taste artisan products ... More >>

Hear It First: Ratatat's LP4

​The upcoming fourth album from Ratatat is streaming on NPR right now, and though there are still the staple strident guitar hooks the Brooklyn duo is known for, you can expect a more worldly sound replete with Japanese strings and expertly arranged world percussion. Void of any singing or rapping ... More >>

Symposium Ponders Future of Local Filipino Cuisine. Could It Be Vegetarian?

Jun BelenAmy Besa of Brooklyn's Purple Yam, conducting a cooking demo. ​It was a busy weekend for Filipino food enthusiasts, as the Asian Culinary Forum hosted the city's first symposium on Filipino food at the International Culinary School in Civic Center. Filipino chefs, food historians, and ... More >>

Clubs preview: Javelin

Jun BelenAmy Besa of Brooklyn's Purple Yam, conducting a cooking demo. ​It was a busy weekend for Filipino food enthusiasts, as the Asian Culinary Forum hosted the city's first symposium on Filipino food at the International Culinary School in Civic Center. Filipino chefs, food historians, and ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Japanther at Hemlock Tavern

​If you're in the mood for a sweaty dance party, Japanther's romping about at the Hemlock tonight, playing pepped-up hooks off their new album Rock 'n' Roll Ice Cream. Gone is the experimental racket of yore as the Brooklyn rockers have moved in favor of more pop-punk singalongs and simple drums. ... More >>

Baylinks: Cigarette Bans, Crime Lab, & Butterflies

Not welcome in S.F.​Is a citywide cigarette ban a far-fetched idea or just a matter of time? [SFAppeal]Inevitable backlash against fresh Banksy pieces begins. [Uptown Almanac]Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi wants to wrest control of the S.F. Crime Lab away from police. [City Insider]A springtime miracle ... More >>

A Dripper Bar Grows in Brooklyn

Return Home/FlickrApparently the siphon is a child's toy compared to the slow dripper.​Today, the New York Times reports that Oakland-based Blue Bottle Coffee is opening a roaster and cafe this week in Brooklyn (Williamsburg, to be exact). Followers of owner James Freeman's tweets have been notici ... More >>

Video of the Day: Golden Triangle Conjures Warhol's Ghost

Last fall I went to Portland for a big garage rock fest and got a chance to check out Brooklyn's Golden Triangle, a motley six-piece artist collective who perform fuzzed out art rock dressed in a colorful collection of thrifting finds. Their hazy, dazed vocals hover over primitive pop structures, c ... More >>

Joseph Arthur Fans: This Week's Shows Double as Haiti Benefits

If you're hitting either of the two Joseph Arthur shows this week (tonight and tomorrow at the Rickshaw), you might want to bring along your checkbook. The Brooklyn troubadour has just announced he'll be doing a little "live stage painting" during the show (how that will work exactly, we're not sur ... More >>

Listomania 2009: College Records of the Year

If you're hitting either of the two Joseph Arthur shows this week (tonight and tomorrow at the Rickshaw), you might want to bring along your checkbook. The Brooklyn troubadour has just announced he'll be doing a little "live stage painting" during the show (how that will work exactly, we're not sur ... More >>

Video of the Day: Das Racist Get Naked Under the Rainbow

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

This Is the Saddest Pop Ever

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

Up Next: San Francisco

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

Rowr!

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

Right in the Kisser

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

All Together Now

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

Nights of the Golem

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

The Big Voice: God or Merman?

This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in space, hitting White Castle, American Apparel, and the psychedelic side of their minds, as the screen f ... More >>

Climbing the Hill

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