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Brooklyn (New York City)

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    January 17, 2013

    NYC's Nickodemus Makes Dance Music About Climate Change

    World music producer and DJ Nickodemus has been spreading messages of positivity and global awareness by way of hip-hop, acid jazz, funk, and abstract beats since 1996. From launching one of the first late-night outdoor events in NYC (Turntables on the Hudson) to recording a compilation for Next Aid ... More >>

  • Music

    November 28, 2012

    Bear in Heaven: Show Preview

    World music producer and DJ Nickodemus has been spreading messages of positivity and global awareness by way of hip-hop, acid jazz, funk, and abstract beats since 1996. From launching one of the first late-night outdoor events in NYC (Turntables on the Hudson) to recording a compilation for Next Aid ... More >>

  • Music

    November 7, 2012

    A Place to Bury Strangers: Show Preview

    World music producer and DJ Nickodemus has been spreading messages of positivity and global awareness by way of hip-hop, acid jazz, funk, and abstract beats since 1996. From launching one of the first late-night outdoor events in NYC (Turntables on the Hudson) to recording a compilation for Next Aid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2012

    Pot Pantry Has a Killer Food Zine Selection

    Pot Pantry opened two years ago on 22nd Street in the Mission, and has since relocated nearby on 18th Street. While vintage kitchenware is the focus of this charming shop, it's also got an unexpectedly interesting selection of food zines. See Also: - Pot Pantry: New and Vintage Kitchen Shop Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2012

    Is "Brooklynization" Killing Regional Music Scenes? Not This One

    "What this essay is saying: There is a tidal wave of generic, mushy, apolitical, featureless, Brooklynish music infiltrating the world's stereos. " Over at Washington City Paper, Justin Moyer makes a rather roundabout case that "Brooklynization" -- the centralization of bands, media/blogs, labels, ... More >>

  • Film

    August 29, 2012

    "Red Hook Summer": Spike Lee Returns to the Brooklyn Panoramic

    "What this essay is saying: There is a tidal wave of generic, mushy, apolitical, featureless, Brooklynish music infiltrating the world's stereos. " Over at Washington City Paper, Justin Moyer makes a rather roundabout case that "Brooklynization" -- the centralization of bands, media/blogs, labels, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Top 10 Reasons Bay Area Indie Bands Move to Brooklyn

    Bay Area bands move to Brooklyn. It's just a thing that happens. You've got your Morning Benders (ahem, POP ETCs), your Royal Baths, and now S.F. gloom-gaze outfit Weekend trading Oakland (formerly S.F.) for the hallowed grounds of Williamsburg or Bushwick or Greenpoint or wherever. But why? Why do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    Enjoy Barrel-Aged Brew and Beer Cocktails with Shmaltz Brewing

    Those nice Jewish boys at Shmaltz Brewing are always up to something. One day they're concocting a recipe for a Pumpernickel Bagel Porter, the next day they're opening the "world's smallest brewery," pumping out craft lagers one gallon at a time next door to the Coney Island Circus Slideshow. The br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2012

    Weekend Parties: The Bunker Returns, Y3K Panic, Beautiful Swimmers, and More

    Prepare yourself -- a strange couple of days is headed your way. Outside Lands is set to be the highlight of the weekend, and with it will come whole legions of drunk fans stumbling out of the Richmond fog like zombies. This also happens to be the time of year when clubs become dominated by last-min ... More >>

  • Music

    August 8, 2012

    Teengirl Fantasy: Show Preview

    Prepare yourself -- a strange couple of days is headed your way. Outside Lands is set to be the highlight of the weekend, and with it will come whole legions of drunk fans stumbling out of the Richmond fog like zombies. This also happens to be the time of year when clubs become dominated by last-min ... More >>

  • Music

    July 25, 2012

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Prepare yourself -- a strange couple of days is headed your way. Outside Lands is set to be the highlight of the weekend, and with it will come whole legions of drunk fans stumbling out of the Richmond fog like zombies. This also happens to be the time of year when clubs become dominated by last-min ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2012

    Ridiculous Website Claims There Are Five U.S. Cities Better for Live Music Than S.F.

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Music

    July 4, 2012

    Liars: Show Preview

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 27, 2012

    Mime or Reason

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Music

    June 20, 2012

    The Men: Show Preview

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Film

    May 16, 2012

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

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Music

    May 9, 2012

    Chicha Libre: Show Preview

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Music

    April 4, 2012

    Bear in Heaven: Show Preview

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2012

    Analog Rules

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Music

    February 1, 2012

    Eleanor Friedberger: Show Preview

    Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2011

    The Godfather of Fairs

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 23, 2011

    FreQ Nasty: Show Preview

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2011

    Be Kind, Rewind

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2010

    Sub Swara: Show Preview

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    November 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2010

    Show Preview: Dirty Projectors

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 28, 2008

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2008

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    August 8, 2007

    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 >>

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