Sing along to your favorite punk tunes, and get rowdy with the boys and girls. DJs spinning original Misfits, '77 punk, Oi!, and 80's hardcore ALL NIGHT. Starts at 9pm. Free beer 10-11pm.
DJs:
Cowboy Mark Michael Quattlebaum Jeremy Holehan Sarah F Lee Karen Galloway Nick Dube Zak Hall
Photo exhibits are fun and all, but most lack the excitement of…nonstop female drummer solos! Tom Tom Magazine, the magazine for and about female drummers, gives you the whole package.
Come listen, drink, and enjoy drum solos by Mindy Abovitz, Christina Bouza, LaFrae Sci, Hanna Fox, Harlo Holmes & more + portraits of JD Samson (Le Tigre), Lizzie Bougatsos and Sadie Laska (IUD, Gang Gang Dance, Growing), Frankie Rose (Crystal Stilts), Shannon Funchess (!!!), Allison Busch (Awesome Color) and more. Photographers include Erin Nicole Brown, Andrew Strasser, Jee Young Sim, Rebecca Smeyne, and more, in the Envoy Gallery above Home Sweet Home.
Open Bar & Drum Solos Start at 7pm.
Envoy Gallery / Home Sweet Home 131 Chrystie Street btwn. Delancey and Broome Streets
DJ Sets by Melissa of Telepathe & Lauren Flax Performances by RAD PONY & Lovers v. Haters Videos by tiny favorite and raffle tickets giveaways include: drum lessons, ad space on www.tomtommag.com, handmade drumsticks & more!! See you there.
Candy Coated Thrash Pop Rockers, Morningwood from NYC, have toured with Head Automatica, Gang of Four, Kasabian, and The Sounds. Come see this FREE Secret show before they embark on their next tour. www.myspace.com/morningwood
Plus get an exclusive first look at brand new Avid tools for creators of digital media who break boundaries and define genres. www.avid.com
@ Public Assembly 70 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 Bedford Stop, L Train
This band is really sick! They are playing Public Assembly (70 north 6th street at Wythe) tonight around 11pm. They are legit latin jazz, afro-beat, funk, dance party with horns, congas, timbales, beats, the whole thing.
In honor of Women's History Month, the following panel discussion will be held:
THE STATUS of WOMEN in the LABOR, HEALTH & POLITICAL POWER STRUCTURE
Above: Panelist Honorable Letitia James leading leading 2007's Walk Don't Destroy 3, legal campaign against Atlantic Yards. (image from www.nolandgrab.org)
Panelists: -Yvonne Graham, Deputy Borough President - Brooklyn -Honorable Letitia James- 35th District & Member of the Women's Issues Committee - New York City Council -Camille Rivera, Assistant Political Director - SEIU 32BJ -Judy Wessler, Commission on the Public's Health System -Wanda Williams, Director of Political Action and Legislation - DC 37
Moderator - Ruth Goldstein, Community Advocate - Fort Greene/Clinton Hill
Special Invited Guest: Congress Member Yvette D. Clarke, 11th C.D.
Sponsored by: The 57th A.D. Democratic Organization, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery - 18th S.D., Council Member Letitia James - 35th C.D. and District Leader Olanike Alabi - 57th A.D.
DATE: Thursday, March 26, 2009 TIME: 6pm LOCATION: Teen Challenge Center, 444 Clinton Avenue (between Greene & Gates)
Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn hosted this year's Williamsburg Fashion Weekend on February 20th-21st. The final show Saturday night was a collaboration between local designers from Treehouse and Sodafine. The models were all female musicians from many familiar bands and projects; Taigaa, Young People, Boyskout, Gogol Bordello, and others. At a staggered pace, each woman strutted onto the stage, picked up an instrument, and began building a cacophony of sound that no one in the crowd was prepared for. I was one of these performers, second onto the stage, contributing from behind a drum kit. Our energy on stage reflected from the audience- I could feel their excitement. 10 fashioned out female drummers were rocking out on one stage together. It can be tough to get a rise out of a Williamsburg crowd but they had definitely never seen anything like this before and they were floored! "The last show of the night was a memorable joint venture between Treehouse Brooklyn’s Sirius and Sodafine, and oh my! Until there are high-flying trapeze artists on swings, and a slow but sure build up of a moving, all-female instrumental ensemble of models wearing sassy versions of marching band dresses like this, any other fashion party is only practice, a mere prologue." www.sentimentalistmag.com
I'm in a fashion show Saturday night! Expect no catwalking (sad) but lots of percussive noise and maybe some cool looking clothing from burg designers. It's at Glasslands in Williamsburg and a part of Williamsburg Fashion Weekend!
Details, details, details...
Saturday, Feb 21 at 9:00pm @ Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent btw S1 & S2nd Sts. Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
TONIGHT! Panty Hos, monthly Brooklyn based mixed-queer dance party, moves from their residence at Rock Star Bar in Williamsburg up the street to Public Assembly on North 6th and Wythe for their 3 Year Anniversary Party.
DJ Sets by DJ Kingdom and DJ Designer Imposter
Open Bar from 10pm - 11pm!!
"rating 5! This just in: the booty banger benefactor of our illegal joints from back in the day, DJ Kingdom presides over this mixed and queer (read: dance-prone) crowd in the heart of Williamsburg. With help from DJ Designer Imposter, some sort of open bar and a surprisingly low D.B. factor." - myopenbar.com
Cappuccino at Gorilla Coffee- then Brunch at a favorite Slope spot- followed by feeding pigeons your leftover toast- while walking down 5th ave toward Ellis Bar- for free Brooklyn Lager from 3pm to 4pm.
Ellis (627 5th Avenue btw. 17th & 18th, South Park Slope) is a bit of a walk and its cold out, but free tastes so good and makes a Sunday Magical.
Panty Hos, a monthly Brooklyn based mixed-queer dance party, moves from their residence at Rock Star Bar in Williamsburg up the street to Public Assembly on North 6th and Wythe for their 3 Year Anniversary Party.
A friend told me about "Silent Film Tuesdays" at BAM in Fort Greene. Tonight they're showing a 1926 comedy directed by William A. Wellman. The photo is certainly intriguing. I might just check it out. See details below:
You Never Know Women Part of the BAMcinematek series Pordenone Silent Film Tuesdays Tue, Nov 25 at 7pm* *Live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
Directed by William A. Wellman With Florence Vidor (1926) 71min
“Beautiful lighting and camera work by Victor Milner, spare use of sub-titles, and Wellman’s skillful handling of the actors all conspire to make this a wonderful example of silent film technique.”—All Movie Guide Lost until a print was found in the Library of Congress in 2001, this highly entertaining Wellman (A Star is Born) comedy concerns a love triangle amongst a troupe of Russian acrobats, clowns, and magicians. On the verge of being canned by Paramount prior to this film, its success gave Wellman the opportunity to direct Wings (1927), winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
This weekend at Public Assembly, the semi finals and finals to the Williamsburg Songwriter Competition. Saturday night after party starting at 11:30pm with bands: Wakey!Wakey!, Creaky Boards, Schwervon!, & Boy Genius
Yesterday, Saturday November 15th, New Yorkers came out in the thousands to standup against the passing of Proposition 8 in California. Just a week and a half before, much of the country enthusiastically celebrated President elect Barack Obama's victory, bringing hope to minorities, civil rights activists, people of color, the LGBT community, and people of all types. It seemed that the election of a black, mixed race president signified that we had taken a great step forward, putting difference and race aside. On the day after the election, the roar of excitement still fresh, many woke up devastated to discover that Proposition 8 had passed. "Prop 8", for short, was a proposition presented on the California ballot this election that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage solely as union between a man and a woman. It overrode a recent California Supreme Court decision that had recognized same-sex marriage in California as a fundamental right.
I attended this protest rally yesterday in City Hall having felt a strong duty to be there. I witnessed thousands gathered in attendance including a diverse cross section of New York residents and visitors alike. Many identified as gay, lesbian, queer and/or transgendered, while countless others were straight allies protesting for their friends, family, and fellow citizens to have the same basic civil rights that they do. The rally could be described as peaceful yet heated with emotion. Picket signs could be counted in the thousands thrusting high into the air coinciding with the booming chants from seas of people. Signs read"Love not H8," "Separation of Church and St8," "Please Let My Son Marry," "Should We Ban Divorce too?," "What's So Scary About Equality?," and "I Will NOT be Tolerated," alluding to a statement from Sarah Palin in the Vice Presidential debate.
Attached to the devastation that was felt upon learning the news of prop 8 passing, many felt intense anger and started to place blame. Campaigns for the passing of Prop 8 raised tens of millions of dollars directed at churches and minorities, specifically African Americans and Latinos. Communities with strong religious values were targeted with the message that same-sex marriage is wrong in the eyes of God and puts traditional marriage at risk. Results of exit polls showed that 70 percent of African American voters and 53 percent of Latinos supported Prop 8 and the ban against gay marriage. Anger and shock arose from the notion that blacks, who have fought against exclusion and discrimination and for their equal civil rights for decades, voted to oppress another group in the same way.
The rally yesterday, included several speakers standing proudly atop soap box shouting from their heart for equal rights. Amongst those to speak were City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn, Congressman Anthony Weiner, former Miss America Kate Shindle, actress Daniela Sea, and former America's Next Top Model, current MTV VJ and activist, Kim Stolz.
I found myself particularly impressed with what Kim Stolz had to say. While it is true that the larger majority of African Americans and Latinos chose to vote for the proposition to ban same-sex marriage, Stolz presented captivating statistics: "if nobody over the age of 65 had voted, prop 8 would have lost...in addition, Latino and African American voters under the age of 30 voted against prop 8 in a large majority." She continues, "all of us, that's the future of gay rights, right there."
Embracing gay rights, it could be said, is just a generation away. Of course, no one wants to or should have to wait that long. It is interesting though to point out the difference in voting between age groups amongst people of color in California. The African American youth who did not have to endure the struggle for civil rights that their parents and grandparents so strongly fought for, ironically, better understand equality for all rather than "separate not equal." Maybe it could be said that those oppressed learn to oppress others or that even those who fight so hard for change find it difficult to accept change later in life.
Civil Rights have come a long way in America: an African American has been elected our President. On election night and the days since we've heard countless journalists beside themselves with emotion, saying they "never thought they'd see the day" or as Steve Osunsami, ABC correspondent choked up saying, "my father used to tell us that there's no way this country would elect a black president. Well this evening, the country has proved my old man wrong, and we're the better for it." We can rejoice our progress to look past race, one even said that election night marked the end of the civil war. Yet the LGBT community does not share the same civil rights as the straight majority. We may have elected a black president, but will my generation live to see the day that a gay couple moves into the White House?
The music venue, performance space, and bar at 70 North 6th street celebrates tonight with a kick off party as the revamped and newly titled "Public Assembly."
I attended this protest rally yesterday in City Hall having felt a strong duty to be there. I witnessed thousands gathered in attendance including a diverse cross section of New York residents and visitors alike. Many identified as gay, lesbian, queer and/or transgendered, while countless others were straight allies protesting for their friends, family, and fellow citizens to have the same basic civil rights that they do. The rally could be described as peaceful yet heated with emotion. Picket signs could be counted in the thousands thrusting high into the air coinciding with the booming chants from seas of people. Signs read"Love not H8," "Separation of Church and St8," "Please Let My Son Marry," "Should We Ban Divorce too?," "What's So Scary About Equality?," and "I Will NOT be Tolerated," alluding to a statement from Sarah Palin in the Vice Presidential debate.
