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Add a Rosenthal ornament to your tree and help BARC shelter!

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From now through December 24, join Cucina & Tavola in helping raise money for Williamsburg’s BARC Shelter. Buy a Rosenthal Crystal Bell Ornament for only $5.00 and $2.00 will donated to BARC!

The Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition’s (BARC) mission is to provide a safe haven for abandoned animals, and to provide a permanent, loving home for them. BARC is in their 27th year of providing quality food, shelter, medical attention, and love to the beautiful creatures in their care.

“We are a 501c3 not-for-profit, no-kill, privately run animal shelter located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since we opened our doors in 1987, we have been able to provide care to animals through dedicated volunteers, our pet supply business, and private donations.”

To volunteer, donate, or to purchase quality supplies for your own special companion animal, follow this link.

Through December 24
Cucina & Tavola
235 Grand Street, Williamsburg

From the WG News + Arts’ Arts Editor:

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SELFIE of Sarah Schmerler

Sarah Schmerler SELFIE AT FEATURE, INC.; HUDSON, TODD CHILTON, UNKNOWN PERSON
Digital photograph, 5 x 7 inches, 2012
Valuation: $30 Starting bid: $25

Did you ever stop to think about how interconnected we all are—how much faith we’ve put in each other’s talents, work ethics, and attitudes over the years? Earlier this month, Williamsburg-based curator and art advisor John Silvis gave a lecture at a local college, explaining to ambitious undergrads how the art market works. (Having worked for Max Protetch Gallery and the Dia Foundation, among others, he had garnered some first-hand views.)

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The Grayces at Spike Hill for CMJ

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grayces at spike hillOne of my favorite shows of this year’s CMJ music festival – the annual audio buffet featuring a smorgasbord of bands, tight jeans and IPAs – was at Spike Hill in Williamsburg, featuring The Grayces from Nashville, TN, on tour supporting their second album, Westing.

I always love when touring bands come into town—they can actually play. Walking in just when their set began, I was immediately taken by the vocal prowess of Iz Stone. She had a voice like the big-ass blades coming out of the walls in that hallway in Indiana Jones and a look like Patti Smith: classic t-shirt and jeans, hair going down past her eyes. She was always right on the note, great range, and played her Telecaster in pure confidence. The scene is still so male dominated, but this was a chick guitar player that got your attention.

The rhythm section must have had a million years of conscious thought because those two were seriously tight. Chas Cantrell was on the drum kit, with snare chops as if he had drum core running through his veins. And then Patrick Ward playing without a pick like a pro—if Geddy Lee and John Paul Jones had a child, it would be him. “Mona Lisa” was the best of the set, delivering a dangerous cool to the crowd for a good three and a half minutes. Stone and Cantrell were the leather jacket and Ward’s bass line was the zipper that joined them together for a night of kicking some ass.

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Headshop, a psychedelic group show at Secret Project Robot

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headshop secret project robotIn this group installation artists will make and display the evolution of the headshop classics: comics, black light posters, tapestries, t-shirts, incense, candles, “pipes,” tarot cards, vinyl, macrame, etc, as well as new things that have become a integral part of modern underground psychedelic culture: video, computer games, electronics, zines
all made the old fashioned way, by local individual people, by hand…

Friday, Nov 14, 7:30pm, facebook event
Secret Project Robot Art Experiment
389 Melrose St, Brooklyn

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