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Wine and chocolate pairings at BOE

March 24, 2012 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

Raaka 71% dark chocolate with sea salt, 2006 BOE Social Club Red, 2009 BOE Chardonnay, and 2010 Cabernet Franc Rose. Photo by Jonathan W. Walton

by Jonathan W. Walton

In the dimming light, sprawled out before us on a big communal table at the Brooklyn Oenology tasting room, were several half empty bottles of New York wine, surrounded by ten or so mounds of Brooklyn-made chocolate. Chocolate and wine makers together, we dove in one by one, systematically comparing over 80 combos without realizing that the smorgasbord had grown to overflowing. Between testing a riesling with smoked chocolate, and gearing up for the black-truffle-chocolate pairings, I took a step back and tried to fathom the decadence before us on this chill winter night. With a deep breath, I washed down the riesling and got back to work.

Peg Simone, Sorceress of the Slide Guitar at LIC Bar, 8/27

August 27, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

Get ready for a rare solo appearance by Peg Simone, Brooklyn-based slide guitar sorceress and siren of the dark blues, tonight at LIC Bar.

“A lot of new music boasts of a good time, but it ends up being the same caffeinated sugar water in a fancy plastic bottle, completely lacking in nutrients, life, and anything that’s good for you. Peg Simone’s new music begins from pure places like poetry, the spoken word, the human breath, feedback, the mystical side of folk and blues, and the effect is icy water coming off the mountain, tasting of soil, rock and organic matter; you want to drink it and let it drip down your neck.” –Black Francis

Marie Losier & Friends, experimental short works at The Picture Show, 07/12

July 12, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE | THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE | Director: Marie Losier / USA-France / 2011 / DigiBeta / Colour / 75’ / English; Turkish s.t.

Back from Europe for only a few weeks, film portrait artist Marie Losier invites her friends to share the screen with her in this evening of experimental short works to celebrate her return. The evening includes: Marie Losier, New surprise work! Peaches + Jesper Just (a film not yet seen!), and Hermaphrodite.

Losier is a portraitist of avant-garde artists, including filmmakers Guy Maddin and The Kuchar brothers, theater director Richard Foreman, and composer / filmmaker Tony Conrad. She is the director of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, the story of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder
Genesis P-Orridge, which won the 2011 Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Documentary.

Reigning Sound at Brooklyn Bowl

May 22, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

Reigning Sound is at Brooklyn Bowl tonight, and Jonathan Toubin says GO! Do not miss this.

“Reigning Sound rule Memphis garage-punk by dint of Greg Cartwright having been an Oblivian, never mind his knack for writing songs like a Phil Spector-produced ’65 Dylan.” – The Austin Chronicle

Brooklyn Bowl
Doors at 6, show at 8 $15

4CHAMBERS by Jody Oberfelder at Arts@Rennaisance

January 20, 2014 By Robert Egert Leave a Comment

Review by Robert Egert

4CHAMBERS by Jody Oberfelder at Arts@Rennaisance

Photos by Julie Lemberger

Dance is so often a spectacle, a kind of voyeuristic experience. As a member of the audience you typically sit on your ass and watch the performers do all the work. If it’s good, when it’s all over, you clap.