Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene Outings

Get your DIY rock on at Hillstock Festival this weekend

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Scenes from Hillstock 2011, the festival I missed because Brooklyn terrified me. (via Facebook)

Hillstock 2011, the festival I missed because Brooklyn was scary. (via Facebook)

As of Friday, summer is OFFICIALLY HERE, and it’s kicking off with the annual Hillstock Festival, which will be taking up residence in Clinton Hill from Friday to Sunday. The DIY music fest, run by the Never Break Down music collective, has been around for a while — when I first moved back to New York a few years ago, I remember hearing about it and wanting to go, but I lived uptown in Manhattan and Brooklyn was “far” and “scary” — but it’s been steadily gaining steam. (more…)

Boerum Hill/ Gowanus Brooklyn Heights/ DUMBO Outings Red Hook Williamsburg

Here are all the free outdoor summer movie series in Brooklyn

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Pop quiz hotshot: where is this movie playing?

Pop quiz hotshot: where is this movie playing?

Holy moly, there sure are a lot of outdoor movies this summer. So many that you might have trouble keeping track of whether you’re supposed to be going to Coney Island or Red Hook, before realizing you should really be Fort Greene. So to help you keep track of it all, we’ve put everything from SummerScreen to Red Hook Flicks into a handy list so you’re never confused again. About where the movies are playing, we don’t know why you keep getting dumped either. (more…)

News

Wednesday lunchtime links

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The Rockaways are getting a hell of a lot of dunes [Daily News]
This kid dresses better than we do [Fucked in Park Slope]
The G train killed somebody [DNA Info]
Our Lady of Refuge gets its groove pipe organ back [Ditmas Park Corner]
If you missed it, how Matt Harvey lost his no-hitter [NY Mag]
Coney Island gets long-awaited shoe chain [Amusing the Zillion]
Subsidized apartments for the almost-rich [New York Observer]
This is just a great bloody mary recipe [Romenesko]

Food & Drink News Williamsburg/ Greenpoint

There is now a $65 Brooklyn brunch bike tour

by | 6.19.13 | 3 Comments

Bike and bite, y'all. (via flickr user marsavic)

Bike and bite, y’all. (via flickr user marsavic)

Few things represent our modern city culture like brunch, bicycles, Brooklyn and the ability to siphon money from tourists who want to experience “Real New York,” so it makes sense that this sort of thing exists:  a Brooklyn-based bike tour company is now offering a “Brunch in Brooklyn” tour, so you can experience all the wonders of midday breakfast dining for just $65 a person. What a deal! (more…)

News Worth the trip to Manhattan

Next week: see the candidates argue about affordable housing

by | 6.19.13 | 1 Comment

For whatever reason, he's not invited

For whatever reason, he’s not invited

The rent is rather extravagant!” goes the rallying cry of one of the city’s mayoral candidates. Or, something like that. And while most sane humans agree with that sentiment, the question is always, “What’s there to be done?” Everyone running for mayor has a plan for the problem, or we hope to God that they do, and a few of them will be sharing their ideas at yet another mayoral forum next week. This one at least, is focused solely on affordable housing though. (more…)

Boerum Hill/ Gowanus News

Canal Bar brings more outdoor summer movies to Gowanus

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Get your summer fridge humping in, thanks to Canal Bar

Get your summer fridge humping in, thanks to Canal Bar

If you’ve seen the many lists of outdoor summer movies we’ve been sharing in the past few weeks, you’d have noticed something: a dangerous lack of Wet Hot American Summer. Fortunately, with the list they’ve just released for their own backyard movie series, Gowanus’ own Canal Bar (270 3rd Avenue) has remedied that situation, and plans to show many, many more movies. (more…)

News tech

Cell-f help: BK parks getting solar-powered phone chargers

by | 6.18.13 | 0 Comments

Nice view. via New York Observer

Nice view. via New York Observer

We’ve all presumably been there: you’re supposed to meet friends somewhere that doesn’t have outlets, and your phone battery is making its final stand. Then it dies and you and your friend spend the next 40 minutes trying to find each other. There’s got to be a better way! AT&T is trying to make sure there is now, with a series of free solar-powered phone charging stations in few New York parks, including four Brooklyn parks, according to the Observer. (more…)

Bed Stuy/ Bushwick Food & Drink News

See the wonders of Brooklyn’s food industry at BK Eats next week

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Jacques Torres will be there to talk chocolate

Jacques Torres will be there to talk chocolate

Brooklyn’s food industry is red hot. Like, Guatemalan insanity pepper hot. So what better time than now to feature the thriving restauranteurs and food scene-makers in a trade show devoted entirely to food? Lucky for us, we get just that next Wednesday with Brooklyn Eats, going down at the Pfizer Building on Flushing Avenue. (more…)

Bed Stuy/ Bushwick Outings

Bed-Stuy stoops get turned into art exhibits this Sunday

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Team STooPS not on a stoop but at the next best thing: Simplicity Wine Bar, where they're holding their afterparty on Saturday. Via STooPS Facebook.

Team STooPS not on a stoop but at the next best thing: Simplicity Wine Bar, where they’re holding their afterparty on Saturday. Via STooPS Facebook.

Ever feel like it might be time to get out of your apartment, and you know, do something? Everyone knows that summer in Brooklyn is like an endless carnival of film festivals, readings, street fairs, and concerts…if you’re willing to travel to the right place. But what about opportunities for arts and music that are literally right in your backyard, or in this case, on your front stoop? For residents of Bed Stuy this Saturday, this fantasy is turning into a reality, thanks to the STooPS project, which is geared up and ready to bring Brooklyn artists right to your front door. Literally. (more…)

Food & Drink Williamsburg

Bars We Love: Okie doke, fill up at Mable’s Smokehouse!

by | 6.18.13 | 1 Comment

Mable's Smokehouse

Mable’s Smokehouse & Banquet Hall
44 Berry St. (At Wythe)
Williamsburg
(718) 218-6655

What is it: No-frills beer and Oklahoma-style BBQ joint that caters to the southern man and woman inside every beer-chugging Brooklynite.

Why we love it: The huge open layout gives you a “not-in-West-Williamsburg-anymore” impression, but that’s only the beginning. The three-sided bar turns drinking into an easy game of eye-tag, but a projection screen playing movies like Roadhouse and Stand by Me lets you play coy, although after a few pints or a pick from their signature cocktails menu, that’ll probably be the last thing you’ll do. (more…)

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