Saturday Night Williamsburg Fashion Show

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

Designers: Sodafine and Treehouse Brooklyn
In collaboration with: Tom Tom Magazine

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Williamsburg Fashion Weekend

Tonight! PantyHos & JD Samson!

Panty Hos, monthly Brooklyn based mixed-queer dance party, tonight at Public Assembly in Williamsburg Brooklyn: 70 North 6th St.

DJ Sets by DJ JD Samson(Le Tigre, Men) & DJ Helen Harris (OMG Michelle)

Happy Groundhog Day

Phil says... 6 more weeks of winter.

PANTY HOS TONIGHT!

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

Brooklyn Wildlife

Photo prior to horse-back riding at Kensington Stables in Prospect Park Brooklyn. Ponies and city sounds make for a precarious mix- and AWAY we went.


Two pigeons took shelter from the cold inside the Public Assembly loft in Williamsburg. I wanted to keep them but I wasn't willing to clean up all the scattered poop piles they would continue to leave. Getting them back outside was a hilarious adventure of gaining and losing their trust again and again.

Free Beer After Brunch..That sounds perfect!

A Magical Park Slope Sunday:

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.



Photo: ABCnews.com
Info: http://www.freenyc.net/

Panty Hos Moves to Public Assembly, JAN 23

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.

DJ Sets by DJ Kingdom and DJ Designer Imposter

Open Bar from 10pm - 11pm!

Long Live Dekalb! and Obama

FORT GREENE’S DEKALB AVENUE MERCHANTS CELEBRATE HISTORIC
INAUGURATION WITH PROMOTIONS ALL WEEKEND LONG

Obama-inspired special menus, drinks, discounts and other offers (See list below). Friday, January 16-Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

Twenty-nine restaurants, cafes, boutiques and retail stores of the Dekalb Avenue Merchants’ Association in Fort Greene, (a Brooklyn neighborhood long known for its multi-cultural diversity) invite you to “Celebrate the Inauguration on Dekalb” and continue the electrifying celebration that began in the streets on election night and continues right through Inauguration Weekend, Friday, January 16-Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

Participating Dekalb Avenue businesses will be offering discounts, coupons, reduced-price prix-fixe menus, drink specials, vouchers for discounts on return visits or 2-for-1 specials all weekend long. Plus on the day of the Inauguration, locations with big screen TVs will be opening early to broadcast the ceremony and will have live music, DJs and even more specials throughout the day.

The list of participating merchants and their offers include… 20% discounts to celebrate the 20th of January, 2009… 44% discounts to celebrate the Inauguration of our 44th President… special menu creations reflecting President-elect Obama’s multi-cultural background… plus coupons, vouchers and other special offers. (Download a map of participating businesses and their offers here:

Inauguration Route - Dekalb Avenue

ALSO: “Obama” posters created by students at Dekalb Avenue’s Ronald Edmonds Learning Center, Middle School 113, will be exhibited in windows up and down Dekalb during the celebration weekend. Come see the work of these young artists who have been so profoundly inspired. Plus students from the school’s Academy of Performing Arts Choir and Band will be performing at select locations on Inauguration Day.

This event re-launches the Dekalb Avenue Merchants’ Association (DAMA). The Association covers Dekalb Avenue from Washington Avenue to Ashland Place, plus businesses on intersecting side streets. The association is about businesses working together on issues of mutual interest, connecting with the community and promoting this vibrant strip in the heart of one of Brooklyn’s great neighborhoods.

Information from: http://dekalbavenue.wordpress.com/

First Winter Snow

Fish Distributor / Music Studios, Greenpoint, Brooklyn


Backyard, Fort Greene, Brooklyn


Footprints, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Turkey Pigeon

Turkey-sized Scheepmaker Pigeon, a Flickr find

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Silent Film Tonight @ BAM

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.

Girls Take Stage the Riot Way

It was cold Saturday night, but not too cold to keep Death by Audio in Williamsburg from steaming up with a packed house of punk & indie rockers of all ages. I, among them, was re-living my days as a teenager when I went to shows in the mid to late nineties. "Not much has changed," I thought, noticing the sea of black attire, hoodies, fingerless gloves, great-hair-cut-but-not-clean-head, tattoo and piercing adorned lot. I mean, the cost at the door was still 5 bucks. Hell, I even bumped into a kid I once dated in my teens, who I was not surprised was still rocking this scene as guitarist of the headliner, The Measure.

But something was different. And it wasn't just that there was an equal amount of girls and guys in the audience to distinguish mid-nineties from 2008. Or the eerily familiar dress code. I mean, shit, even the dj played Jawbreaker in-between sets (which I happily sang along to in my head).

It was who performed: a powerful, all-girl band that rocked tightly orchestrated and invigorating guitar riffs, drum patterns and time signatures leaving the guys in the audience spell bound (taking note of the flawless and natural instrument control) and the girls inspired (and slightly turned on). I realized I had always wanted to see this in my youth--girls taking the stage and being completely comfortable doing so. As a musician who has performed across the nation with a variety of bands-an all girl one at that-I realize that life would have happened so much sooner if this was the window of my alternative, underground teen angst life.

Each Other's Mothers rocks. I was right in the front along with a bunch of girls bouncing and pushing--of course, into me--but staring at these super nice, geeky yet serious girls who wear rock star so casually. Maybe because they're just being real. The Mothers put on a show that is worth trekking long and far too. Reminds me of the days that I'd go see Erase Errata and come home to play music or blast songs from their set with my friends for hour-long dance parties on top of my bed.

As a musician and feminist who engages teen girls at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, it's not always clear how girls live the day to day. But going to this show and seeing my friends perform made me think that within all the same-same there's a lot of new. Teens are getting access to a whole new meaning of gender bending equality alongside the generation ahead of them. It doesn't matter that I'm not a teenager anymore, I can clearly see how freakin awesome this would be for any girl--or guy, for that matter.

It can't hurt having a much more curious and D-I-Y adept generation growing fast behind us "approaching thirty-somethings." Hell, a zine table had more attention then the makeshift bar at the show if that tells you anything. Maybe more punk and indie rock like the Mothers will open up the eager and desiring eyes of our youth to a new way of being, acting, and finding ourselves--and a lot earlier.

The fashion's the same as is the attitude and tiny micro groups within one intricately embroidered macro identity. But Riot grrrl in their hearts, the Mothers and their allies have nothing to prove when they take on the stage. They're meant to be there. Always were. As obvious as the tattoos and eye-wear that signifies "we're in."