If the closest you’ve come to experiencing the Delta Blues is through the White Stripes, the coming week will bring original masters like Robert “Wolfman” Belfour and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, and those influenced by them, straight to Brooklyn.
The bluesmen and women are here via the Mississippi Delta Heritage Project, an ambitious program by a 20-year-old […]

At the end of this funny essay about the over-hyped writers’ colony that Brooklyn has become, Colson Whitehead complains about the dearth of therapists in Brooklyn.
BB wants to know: Can that be true? If you know of a good therapist here in Kings County, email brooklynbased at gmail.com. Thanks!

Even if you haven’t heard of Sharon Jones by now, you have heard her sound. Like her past two albums with backing band The Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights, which came out last week, evokes the polished sound of Motown, the grit and funk of Stax, the plaintive soul of Otis, and the gospel of […]

When the Brooklyn band Robbers on High Street released their first album Tree City in 2005, they could not shake the “sounds like Spoon” albatross from their necks. But the comparison — a fortunate one regardless — is wearing off with their second album, Grand Animals, a catchy collection of driving pop bolstered by twangy […]

Two weeks ago, Dana Sterling didn’t have a Coney Island home for her Mermaid Parade Ball. “We were almost going to throw event in Williamsburg; that’s the way I thought it would go,” says the producer of Amateur Female Jello Wrestling and the organizer of the ball, held in previous years at the now-shuttered Velocity. […]

Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, E.D. Hill, and Julian Philips are the smiling faces playwright Kevin Doyle used to see every morning in the subway, while standing before the “Fox & Friends” morning news show poster, waiting for the G Train.
Naturally the question arose: what do these dimwits actually talk about?
So Doyle replaced these real-life […]

On Parade
Bushwick artists sure know how to hold a studio tour. Instead of just disseminating maps for a self-guided art walk, they’ve added acrobats, music, film and burlesque to their Open Studios and Arts Festival, running Friday through Sunday in the streets stretching from the Montrose L stop to the Myrtle JMZ stop. Catch the […]

The organizers behind Brooklyn Uncorked have offered us two free tickets to tomorrow night’s North Fork wine tasting at BAMcafé, which we wrote about yesterday. And we, in turn, are giving the tix to the first person who can guess where in Brooklyn this photo was taken.

In response to Friday’s quiz, Susannah Volpe of Brooklyn Heights was the first to tell us the right address of the red door: 269 Henry Street. Good eye!

Brooklyn Based begins in earnest next week, but I couldn’t wait till then to test out this fantastic site and email that Geoff Smith designed and built, with the help of Katie Gastley (nice logo) and Sara Levin (great photo finds).
For our inaugural email, I’m rolling out the first official Photo Quiz. Each week you’ll […]