The Brooklyn Ink

From Persian Cats to Yellow Dogs

The Yellow Dogs, an underground Iranian rock band from Tehran, Iran recently moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They’ve made it to America, but where do they go from here?

From Russia With Love and Propaganda

This is how the world looks on Russia’s government owned Channel One

Video – Hack Attack in Brooklyn

NYC Resistor is a shared space in Brooklyn where a group of ‘hackers’ take apart electronics and put them together again to create a variety of weird and wonderful inventions. These self-proclaimed ‘nerds’ aren’t going to break into your Facebook account, though; this generation of ‘hackers’ does things differently. Van Tieu meets them.

The Secret Feast

Underground dinners are the latest trend in eating out. They’ve been popular for a long time in Latin America, known as “Paladars” or “Restaurante de Puertas Cerradas” (locked door restaurants). They’ve made their way to the United States and Europe and now also to Brooklyn.
Danielle Bengsch looks behind the scenes of a secret cookery in [...]

Video – Las Vegas on Brighton Beach

They call it “Sex and the City meets Sleepless on Brighton Beach,” but Tatiana Restaurant is so much more.

“Cirque du Critique”

By Mustafa Mehdi Vural
Tuan Le, 33, and his girl friend Vanessa Alvarez, 28, rushed from the subway on Sunday afternoon to Whitman Auditorium at Brooklyn College to see the show of Chinese Acrobats of Hebei.
“My girlfriend loves Chinese Acrobatics,” said Vietnam-born, Germany-raised Le.
“I do little bit the same thing,” added Alvarez, smiling.
Le and Alvarez are [...]

Video – Brooklyn Crowns its Queen

Brooklyn College hosted the third annual Miss Brooklyn Scholarship Pageant March 28, and nine women vied for their shot at the crown.

So Indie, They Don’t Even Know It

By Yepoka Yeebo
Last year, five 12-year-old girls from Brownsville, Brooklyn recorded an exuberant, electro-tinged song that would see them featured in music snob bibles ‘Pitchfork,’ and ‘The Fader.’ By a bizarre twist of the record industry, it became the soundtrack to luxury label Proenza Schouler’s show at Fashion Week in February. But only one of [...]

BK’s Most Dangerous Designer

Designer Karen Patwa adds a little danger to the fashion scene in Boerum Hill.

Trim or Tattoo? A New Elvis Aesthetic in Williamsburg

By Joseph Alexiou

It is only in a neighborhood like Williamsburg, in a borough like Brooklyn, that a group of creative young folks can open an Elvis-themed hair salon-cum-tattoo parlor without raising many eyebrows.
Graceland is housed in a renovated former three-car garage at the corner of Lorimer and Withers streets. Embedded in the smooth cement floor [...]