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?
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?
Thursday, May 13, 2010
This is how the world looks on Russia’s government owned Channel One
Friday, May 7, 2010
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.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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 [...]
Friday, April 23, 2010
They call it “Sex and the City meets Sleepless on Brighton Beach,” but Tatiana Restaurant is so much more.
Friday, April 23, 2010
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 [...]
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Brooklyn College hosted the third annual Miss Brooklyn Scholarship Pageant March 28, and nine women vied for their shot at the crown.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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 [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Designer Karen Patwa adds a little danger to the fashion scene in Boerum Hill.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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 [...]
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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