For the month of June, the Heart of Brooklyn and WBGO, 88.3 FM–the radio station that caters to every kind of jazz lover–have brought free concerts to the gardens, plazas, and steps of Brooklyn’s major cultural institutions.
Now in its last weekend, Jazz: Brooklyn’s Beat closes with a syncopated bang. On Saturday June 26, Felix Hernandez–whose [...]

In case you can’t read the small type, the text above says, “Blocks along which a Hot Bird sign was at some point visible, 9.20.09-9.22.09.” This is Brooklyn life through the eyes of infographic genius, Very Small Array.
Artist and Bed-Stuy resident Dorothy Gambrell is also the pen behind the comic, Cat and Girl. Very Small [...]

Graham Avenue isn’t what it used to be. Once filled with the rich sounds of Southern Italy, in the past decade businesses owned by Brazilians, Mexicans and upstate transplants have sprouted along this strip of north Brooklyn.
“You’ll definitely find someone who will say it was better before,” says Joe Rinaldi, “but [...]

Maybe you’re a Briton living in New York. Or maybe you’re just an Anglophile with a fondness for Morrissey, an unhealthy interest in Prince William, and a bad habit of spelling “colors as “colours.” Either way, this is your guide to living Britishly in Brooklyn. From partying to eating to shopping, here’s how to maximize [...]

Halloween falls on a a Saturday this year, all the better for spooky fun. There are so many haunted houses, costume parades and general mayhem to choose from that we put together a few of our favorite events to make it easier to plan a bewitching evening (and pre-Halloween partying).
Steampunk Invasion
After last year’s blowout [...]

Contrary to what you might have read, Beer Wars doesn’t feature “small brewers flying….into Anheuser-Busch’s corporate Death Star and destroying it with proton torpedoes made of hops until all the beer nerds dance around like Ewoks in their gastropub village in the trees.” (Though we’d love to watch that. You reading this George?)
What you will [...]

Around the country great indie book retailers are dropping left and right, and a huge section of the publishing world is paralyzed with fear, wondering which part of the system will decay next. Meanwhile in Dumbo, there’s a book renaissance brewing and the small press, gallery and independent retail store Melville [...]

When Park Slope writer Lisa Selin Davis asked friends to contribute to her Facebook list of fun, cheap stuff to do in NYC, it inspired a lot of Brooklyn-centric deals (like the $6.50 Tuesday and Thursday movies at Cobble Hill Cinemas and free shows at BAMcafé). So we decided to steal her idea (thanks Lisa!) [...]

New York is filled with transplants — and bars with multiple flat screens, which makes it easy to find your home team. So for all you die-hard football fans (me!) and baseball fanatics looking for a beer to imbibe and a seat to warm for three hours, herewith are five local sports bars worth venturing [...]

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 [...]