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Police are searching for a Brooklyn woman who sent panicked text messages to friends and family before disappearing last week.
Dana Lauren Bonanno, 33, who lives in Greenpoint, disappeared around 11 p.m. on July 22 shortly after sending texts to her mother and friends that said she was “scared,” according to her mother Donna O’Conner and the NYPD.
Bonanno, who is described as 5-foot-1 and 110 pounds with brown eyes, was last seen on Freeman Street in a blue dress.
Yellowbirds’ new release, Songs from the Vanished Frontier.
Sam Cohen’s post-Apollo Sunshine solo project, Yellowbirds, returns as a four-member band with the release of Songs from the Vanished Frontier.
Since the release of his 2011 Yellowbirds debut The Color, Sam Cohen has added drummer Brian Kantor, vocalist/bassist Annie Nero, and her multi-instrumentalist husband Josh Kaufman. Their brand of psych-pop combines vibes that Cohen describes as “…psychedelic, but less aggressive.”
TONIGHT: “The Cause B Show: Whistleblow Your Mind,” at Over the Eight (594 Union Ave, Union and Richardson) a stand-up comedy show featuring some of New York City’s top comedians raising money for The Bradley Manning Defense Fund. The event is the second in a continuing series of shows produced solely to benefit causes in need. In addition to the creators, comedians in the line up include Emma Willmann, Kendra Cunningham, Leo Martin, and The Lucas Bros.
**Chase Madar will be speaking at the event and available for question following the show. Chase is a civil rights attorney in New York and the author of The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso, 2013). He writes for the London Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique, The Nation, The American Conservative, TomDispatch and elsewhere**
Film still from “Been Here Before” by the team, Something Arbitrary.
Flux Fest Challenges Ten Teams of Filmmakers to Produce Short Films About the Passage and Continuity of Time in Juried Film Fest Sunday, July 28th from 6pm to Midnight at Sandbox Studios Brooklyn, 154 Morgan Ave.
Mythic Bridge, a non-profit organization committed to providing filmmaking education to underserved youth, presents Flux Fest 2013, a juried film festival in Bushwick spotlighting the work of up-and-coming NYC filmmakers. Ten teams were challenged to create short films exploring the passage and continuity of time. The shorts will then be screened for guests and judged by a panel of experts from the filmmaking community.
