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Book Boys, Book Boys … Whatcha Gonna Do

December 6, 2011 By Jon Reiss Leave a Comment

The second-hand bookshop run by former street booksellers maintains a counterculture vibe. Photo by Eric Ryan Anderson

The Book Thugs of North 3rd Street

Corey Eastwood tells the story of how Book Thug Nation got its name. He talks about a guy named Alan who sounds like the patron saint of book thug ilk: “This guy Alan is kind of the Don of the street booksellers. He’s one of the first guys who started out on West 4th Street — a great old character. He had a store in Park Slope called Last Exit Books. I’ve never been there but I bet it was a great store because he really knows his stuff.”

OMMMMG: So Many Yoga Studios in the Neighborhood – Part 1

January 29, 2011 By Stacey Brook Leave a Comment

Michelle Dortignac, founder of Unnata Aerial Yoga, in a pose which combines traditional yoga and aerial acrobatics. Photo courtesy Unnata Aerial Yoga

Part 1

My Zen is at the peak of productivity. Between morning and afternoon meetings, doctors appointments, a run at the gym, jazzed up on cappuccinos, deadlines looming, I take a minute to focus on my breath, I inhale the city’s car-fumed air … Blackberry still in hand, podcast tunes pumping through my brain, scanning the daily paper … and I exhale.

Reality Bites: The Too-True Art of Andrew Ohanesian

January 29, 2011 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

“Montana, 2010,” a walk-in cooler with display doors was installed at English Kills Art Gallery, last spring. Photo courtesy of Andrew Ohanesian

Artist Andrew Ohanesian stands in his recent installation “Untitled (Jetway), 2010,” presented at Famous Accountants. Photo by Eric Ryan Anderson

Andrew Ohanesian doesn’t just create art; he creates art that passes for reality. The 30-year-old Bushwick transplant—when he isn’t working at his “day job” as studio manager for NYC-based new media artist Jon Kessler—is busy in his studio (site of such detritus as a working stove, piles of raw lumber, a man-sized safe, and dismembered mannequins), plotting out how to best create his next, accurately textured, convincingly lit, art installation that feels, looks, and smells so real, it blurs the boundaries between art and life.

“Mandies” was a fully working, fully-stocked (Bud on tap!) bar that he installed last fall at Bushwick’s art gallery-cum-boutique ARCH Collective. (You’d sit on the bar stool, admire wall-to-wall wood paneling, drink to your heart’s content, then step out into the bright lights of the gallery and wonder how in the hell you got there.)

Nicolette Camille Floral Design

October 23, 2010 By Mary W. Yeung Leave a Comment

A job that allows Nicolette Camille to always be surrounded by beautiful flowers

Photos by Eric Ryan Anderson.

Asked if she has any bridezilla stories she can share, Nicolette Owen, owner of Nicolette Camille Floral Design, knocked on wood and said, “No!” Surrounded by beautiful flowers in her Williamsburg studio—white peonies, blue and purple hydrangea, velvety lambs ears, young blueberries, columbine, sweet peas and antique roses—one must deduct that floral design is among the most coveted jobs in the world, especially when you have your own company and can bring your creative visions to fruition.

“A lot people say they would love to have my job,” says the young designer, “but I remind them of all the hard work that goes into it, like getting up at five in the morning to get to the flower market. Doing deliveries. There are times when I’m so tired after working on a big wedding, that immediately after the flowers are delivered all I want to do is to go to sleep,” she says.

WG GALLERY – PHOTO SALE – All Weekend!

June 26, 2010 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

william hereford volkswagon skateboarder

Photo by William Hereford.

WG NEWS + ARTS Photo Gallery Exhibit / beautiful images of the neighborhood for sale

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All Weekend 12 – 5pm or by appointment (917) 304-6213
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50-52 Dobbin Street, Greenpoint (bet Nassau & Norman)