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Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Mike-OBrien at The Flat, August 22, 2013
Tonight’s opening night of this week-long festival, and there will be three FREE comedy shows at Spike Hill, Cobra Club, and Bar Matchless, followed by a FREE after party with live music at Union Pool!
In Bushwick it’s the Cause B Show: Brooklyn Comedy Festival Edition, hosted by Kerryn Feehan, at the Cobra Club. Get a free beer with a donation.
Vintage motorcycles at this annual block party of bands and vintage motorcycles, all ages, free. Bring yerself, and bring yer bike.
Screamin’ Rebel Angels and the Coffin Daggers are ready to tear it up for you on the block of North 14th Street between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue. Ride it in and show it off. Silly prizes. If you are bringing a motorcycle try to show up between 10am and noon.
In the late 70’s through the early 80’s, all the brothers were born on the southside of Chicago, Illinois. Their family had a strong musical legacy that spanned the city. In 1986, their father formed “Phil Cohran and th Youth Ensemble”. The eight brothers performed with their mothers, older brothers and sisters, as well as their father, Kelan Phil Cohran (co-founder of AACM, Sun Ra’s lead trumpeter, mentor to “the Pharoah’s”, later known as ” Earth Wind and Fire”).
By the end of the nineties, with everyone out of school, they brought together their musicianship, their jazz roots and their hip hop sensibility, and made a living busking on the streets of Chicago. They came up up with their name after an incident on the El: playing on the platform, a man in a suit watched them for hours, missing train after train, till in the end he walked up to them and said, “You guys just hypnotized me”.
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.
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).