Archives for March 2014

TONIGHT at 8! “Our Robocop” by Bootleg Cinema at BKLYN Rod & Gun

March 25, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

robo-cop-remake TUESDAY 3/25 Bootleg Cinema presents: Our RoboCop at 8pm. Bootleg Cinema presents RoboCop like you’ve never seen him! Connected through various filmmaking channels, Our Robo Cop was created by 50 filmmakers (both amateur and professional) from Los Angeles and New York who have split the original RoboCop into individual pieces and have remade the 1987 Paul Verhoeven classic in response to the recent Hollywood re-imagining. This is not necessarily a shot-for-shot remake, but a scene-for-scene retelling.

You can find more information at http://www.ourrobocopremake.com/

As always, $5 gets you a drink and the movie. Info: facebook.com/brooklynrodandgun

The Lost Lectures Series Lands with Blood Orange, Choire Sicha, Flex is Kings

March 25, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

lost-lecture-new-york-large After successful events in London and Berlin, organizers of The Lost Lectures have teamed up with Hyperallergic to bring the series to NYC.

On Friday, April 25, The Lost Lectures will land in NYC with six world-renowned speakers, performances, interactive demos, and installations.

The evening’s lineup will feature musical sensation Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes), writer and publisher Choire Sicha of The Awl, photographer Barbara Nitke, scientist Marc Abrahams, Brooklyn dance sensations Flex Is Kings, filmmaker Deidre Schoo, and one very special (and as of now, unannounced) speaker.

Is It Going to Snow, or Not? And End-of-Day Links

March 24, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

Photo via HBO / Mark Schafer

Snow-go, or snow-no? It’s been a matter of some discussion over the past few days; as of 5:51 p.m. today, the National Weather Service is forecasting a 40% chance of light snow this afternoon, a 50% chance this evening, with no more than a half inch of accumulation. So, mostly snow-no. Yay!

The always wonderful Richard Lawson opines that Girls, in its season closer, may have explained itself after “what was a jarringly bleak, even mean run of episodes…”

Free Beer! Yes, You Heard Right— Tuesdays Mean Free Beer at Briskettown

March 24, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

free beer every tuesday at briskettown Tuesdays are Boozedays at Briskettown
From Daniel Delaney, boss man at Briskettown: “Last Tuesday we got a keg of beer for the Mardi Gras. We tapped it and left folks serve themselves, totally free. It was a blast. Completely changed the vibe of the night, and I think everyone had an awesome time. So, we want to make this a thing. Not just on Fat Tuesday, but every Tuesday“!

Delaney goes on to say “Each week I’ll try to mix up the kegs (probably), and we’ll tap it at 5:00 p.m. Drink all you want until the keg runs dry.”

“The long-smoked brisket was splendid, crusted with a blackened spice rub that sealed in moisture, which wept as the meat was sliced. It was every bit as good as you get in Texas.” — Robert Sietsema, The Village Voice

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Super 8 Footage of NYC in the 70s, Television Party at the Panther Room

March 23, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

Seminal and highly influential 1970s NYC band Television is featured as Classic Album Sundays presents “Marquee Moon” at the Panther Room this afternoon.
North Brooklyn Parents Oppose Standardized Testing for Young Students.
Nobody’s 100% sure yet, but a spring ‘Nor’easter bomb’ could bring a giant snowstorm to basically anywhere along the East Coast on Tuesday.
Brooklyn Vegan was so wowed by La Femme at SXSW that tonight he presents the band’s “crazed psychedelic pop with a krautrock/coldwave backbone and an affinity for surf rock…a sound magnifique”, at Glasslands. The show has been sold-out for weeks, but Brooklyn Vegan has compiled a page of videos, including a full-album stream, so grab a bottle of vin and enjoy them in the comfort of your own maison. Happy Sunday!

Here are twenty minutes of Super8 film of New York in the 1970s, by amateur filmmaker Irving Schneider.