Our old pal Marial Maher, aka Seasick Mama, is out and about to promote her new album, Tip Top Shape, and it is GREAT.
Williamsburg Landlord Threatens to Boot Daycare and Senior Center
Swinging Sixties Center on Ainslie Street has new landlord who is evicting longtime daycare center and a senior center.
Reported by Greg Hanlon, St. Nicks Alliance
Unfortunately, no building owner is unaffected by the lure of maximizing their investment in the current housing market gripped by gentrification—even 211 Ainslie Street, the longtime home of the Swinging Sixties Senior Center and Small World Daycare, two long-running, popular centers for Williamsburg’s low and moderate-income population.
It is also where Community Board #1 meetings have been held for the last 30 years.
Let’s Make an Elf Hat! (Why We at Allegria Love Elves)
By Melanie Gomez & Lula Aldunate
Illustrations by Maggie Ares
Elves are magical creatures found in Santa’s workshop. What we like and admire most about them is that they work hard, love what they do, and have an incredible talent for making toys.
But where do they come from?
Picasso Would Have Eaten Here (but he’s kind of dead)
Artist Mary Westring and Cadaqués owner Mathieu Reboul.
By Gabi Shipfner
A huge hurdle for most visual artists is finding proper exposure for their creations. It’s customary to seek gallery representation, but it can be a daunting and formidable task. It can also be as time consuming to market one’s artwork as it is to create it. With the enormous concentration of artists in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, finding gallery representation is even more challenging, and for those who already have it, solo exhibitions are frequently years apart. That’s the case for Williamsburg artist Mary Westring. She’s represented by the local Figureworks Gallery, but is prolific and produces more work than even her dealer can exhibit.
Dangling Carrot for Illustration Purposes at Domino Hearing
Colin Miles (left) and the dangling carrot. Photo by Ryan Porush / Bedford+Bowery
“I’m in the produce business,” said Colin Miles of Save Domino, when he approached the “podium” to make commentary regarding Domino Sugar project at the latest public planning hearing in Williamsburg. He cleverly used two minutes to make several points challenging developer Two Trees’ massive project that, in his opinion, makes false claims and false promises for the community.
Read Bedford+Bowery reporter Ryan Porush’s story here.
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