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Get Yer Ya-Yas Out This Weekend for the 3rd Annual Bushwig Drag Festival!

September 6, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

The House of Bushwig Photo by Maro Hagopian

Powder your nose and grab your buttons and bows, September is all about Bushwig. The Bushwick-based drag carnival and arts festival is returning for a 3rd year, and is extending the festival to run all weekend, and by all weekend, they mean ALL WEEKEND, honey!

Saturday kicks of at 1pm at Secret Project Robot, and sashays through 8 am at queer nightlife party and performance palace The Spectrum. Performers include Horrorchata, Elle Emenope, Rachel Ratchet, Sasha Velour, and many, many more superstars of drag, including a surprise guest from Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 6.

Garden State Social Club End of Summer Blowout at Rippers on Rockaway Beach, 9/01

August 30, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

GARDEN STATE SOCIAL CLUB END OF SUMMER BLOWOUT!

Tear the shit out of the official end of the summer, with Garden State Social Club at Rippers on Rockaway Beach! Special guests Suzette Sundae and the Lovelifes! Show starts at 6:00 PM and the party rides on until 9! facebook event

Genre is James Brown, Nancy Sinatra, Big Mama Thornton and Louis Prima in an orgiastic throwdown!

Goodbye Brooklyn Ale House, Williamsburg’s OG Dog Bar

August 14, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

goodbye brooklyn ale house

The dog bone has been passed; say goodbye to “the best chili cookoffs, the best fried chicken-offs, corned beef and cabbage and the best damn Kentucky Derby party in the city” – after 17 years, the original Dog Bar, Brooklyn Ale House, has been sold.
Gentrification, Inc.: Real estate developer Jamestown has perfected the “art of creating the next hot neighborhood,” and this how they do it.
The rent is too damn high! Uma Thurman’s brother can’t afford the rent in Bed-Stuy.
Office space in Brooklyn isn’t keeping up with the demands of high-growth tech tenants, and high-growth tech tenants are leaving. Here’s why.
A worker upset at being told how to do his job stormed off a Wythe Avenue construction site and returned with a gun to shoot at his coworker, police said

Fred Tomaselli, Lawrence Weschler @ the New York Public Library

May 28, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

gouache and collage on printed watercolor paper, © Fred Tomaselli via the James Cohan Gallery

Artist Fred Tomaselli discusses his new book, Fred Tomaselli: The Times, with author Lawrence Weschler. They explore the artist’s politically charged series of work and the process of developing this new book. In this brilliant time capsule of recent world events, celebrated artist Fred Tomaselli intrepidly and colorfully re-imagines the front pages of the New York Times.

A self-proclaimed news junkie, Tomaselli has been responding to the earth-shattering events of the past decade through a fascinating series of artworks collected in this book for the first time. Tomaselli superimposes his signature psychedelic aesthetic on the front page, setting up a striking contrast between the paper’s sober depictions of reality and his vivid interventions. Readers will delight in comparing the actual headlines, captions, and articles that surround the images with Tomaselli’s trippy, highly detailed interpretations.

WG Picks // Your North Brooklyn Memorial Day Weekend Roundup

May 24, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

Organic prosecco mimosas, horchata popsicles, a movie about the NYC downtown scene of the 80s, romantic pop about French girls, wine, and cocaine: your North Brooklyn Memorial Day weekend roundup!

benoit and sergio at cameo gallery “Benoit & Sergio don’t make dance tracks—they tell stories. A sense of place and narrative infuse their rhythms and melodies, transcending the confines of ‘tech-house’ or ‘electronic pop’ and entering a genre-free realm of cinematic imagery and visceral pleasures.” Head over to Cameo Gallery on N 6th Street and revel in their sleazy, romantic pop sensibility, with lyrics about loneliness, French girls, wine, and cocaine. What could be better than that? Cameo Gallery @ 11pm Facebook event

adelina's memorial day brunch greenpoint It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means brunch on Monday! Adelina’s does it up with a live jazz + prosecco brunch, Monday 12-4pm. 2 for 1 organic prosecco mimosas and their fantastic brunch menu. Adelina’s, 156 Greenpoint Ave, brunch all weekend, jazz brunch on Monday.