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Deno’s Wonder Wheel Coney Island Music Marathon

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Denos’ Wonder Wheel, Coney Island, Photo by Melissa Guion

Rock ‘n surf on Saturday in Coney Island! It’s day 2 of Deno’s Wonder Wheel Music Marathon, featuring live music by 6 bands from 2-6pm. Surf, rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll bands with names like King Stork, Slim Wray, and the Bakersfield Breakers play the Ninth Annual Deno’s Wonder Wheel Music Marathon at Coney Island.

Check out NYC all-female Brazilian Psychedelic Seventies Rock revival band ‘As Lolas’ at 7pm.

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Murals and Mosaics in Bushwick and the East Village, March in Manhattan

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Image via Bushwick Daily. Silhouette by Ben Angotti.

  • This is terribly sad. Jim “Mosaic Man” Power began tearing down his multicolored mosaics from lampposts around Astor Place Wednesday as a preemptive strike against the city, which had planned to remove the art, he said.
  • Tens of thousands of protesters from across the United States are expected to fill the streets of Midtown Manhattan on September 21, including an artists alliance from the People’s Climate March, which has set up shop at the newly opened Mayday Bar and Community Arts Space in Bushwick.
  • Gigantic elephant and birdcage murals cover the exterior of the triangle building at 970 Flushing Avenue, site of a soon-to-be-opened restaurant from the owners of nearby 983 Bushwick’s Living Room.
  • Kickstarter gets a new neighbor on Kent Street – Caerus Group is in contract to buy one of the buildings at the former Eberhard Pencil Factory Greenpoint.

Photo Tour of Dumbo Street Art

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WG reader Chris Altman, who writes for All That Is Interesting, sent us this message: “We thought you might find this post interesting; we recently did a tour of the street art of DUMBO, part of an ongoing series about street art in NYC.”

He was right! Chris and photographer Killian Simon did a beautiful job assembling this astoundingly beautiful work, along York and Pearl streets, under the BQE overpasses.

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Goodbye Brooklyn Ale House, Williamsburg’s OG Dog Bar

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  • The dog bone has been passed; say goodbye to “the best chili cookoffs, the best fried chicken-offs, corned beef and cabbage and the best damn Kentucky Derby party in the city” – after 17 years, the original Dog Bar, Brooklyn Ale House, has been sold.
  • Gentrification, Inc.: Real estate developer Jamestown has perfected the “art of creating the next hot neighborhood,” and this how they do it.
  • The rent is too damn high! Uma Thurman’s brother can’t afford the rent in Bed-Stuy.
  • Office space in Brooklyn isn’t keeping up with the demands of high-growth tech tenants, and high-growth tech tenants are leaving. Here’s why.
  • A worker upset at being told how to do his job stormed off a Wythe Avenue construction site and returned with a gun to shoot at his coworker, police said

The Quickie Crest Film Fest: Short Short Films at Crest Hardware, 8/14

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Who likes short shorts? Crest likes short shorts! Crest Hardware is proud to announce the first ever Quickie Crest Film Fest, a celebration of local film talent in the “Short Short film” medium.

Crest will open its backyard to the public for a night of movies under the stars, showcasing a series of 1 to 7 minute short shorts from NYC-based moviemakers. Each film shifts from genre to genre, keeping with the festival-established theme of “community” – be it personal community, local community, (or universal community for the truly ambitious).

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