Year of the Dragon [Video]
Chinese residents gathered in Brooklyn's Sunset Park to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Not only did the festivities bring the Chinese-American community together, but it provided an economic boost for local vendors.
Tag Archive | "music"
Where Brooklyn At?
Friday, January 6, 2012
Brooklyn was once considered an incubator for hip-hop, but has it lost its touch? Hannah Olivennes looks into hip-hop’s traveling geographical center.
Growing up With Hip-Hop
Monday, December 12, 2011
A mini-documentary about hip-hop in Brooklyn’s projects.
At CMJ—Brooklyn, But More So
Monday, October 24, 2011
For one week in October, the CMJ Music Marathon takes over Williamsburg and Greenpoint with hundreds of bands looking for a break, giving music lovers in Brooklyn even more options than they already have.
Weekend Photo Opts
Monday, October 24, 2011
Adorable puppies and their owners paraded across the Brooklyn Bridge for an event for sponsored by the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals and Petfinder. See all the puppy shots at Metromix. USA Today has a [...]
JC Ortiz
Friday, October 21, 2011
For half the year JC Ortiz, 29, works on a fishing boat in Alaska. He spends the other half in Williamsburg, playing the banjo in his band, The Keeps. Ortiz got his first tattoo three [...]
Tim Ryans
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tim Ryans had a sunflower with Peter Pan sleeping inside tattooed on his chest after he had his heartbroken (Anna Codrea-Rado/The Brooklyn Ink) Peter Pan sleeps inside a sunflower on the left side of Tim [...]
Into His Ninth Decade, Rivera Enjoys A Jazz Renaissance
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Ray Rivera, jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter, strolled to the mike at the Brooklyn Marine Island Salt Marsh Nature Center on a hot night this June. The pine box of a park ranger station, occupancy [...]
Rapper Maino ticketed by police near Rockefeller Center
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Brooklyn native and rapper Maino was pulled over yesterday near Rockefeller Center for driving with a suspended license. Maino, performer of the hit song ‘Hi Hater,’ allegedly refused to heed police-enforced traffic directions, reports [...]
Music School Launches New Cultural Program
Thursday, October 14, 2010
By Caitlin Kasunich The Brooklyn Music School has served the African-American community in Fort Greene almost exclusively during most of its 98 years in operation. That is changing as more and more [...]
Saturday, February 4, 2012
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