"The L Stop"

www.FreeWilliamsburg.com today reports that the newly opened cafe on Metropolitan between Union and the BQE is charging $4 for an Iced Coffee!

While the cold brewing process of iced coffee is a timely and costly process, $4 is an absurd price. Also, having not yet been to the L Stop, I can't say that they are even cold brewing their iced coffee.

The best coffee shops in burg in terms of most skilled baristas and quality of beans used are El Beit, Gimme, & Second Stop. All 3 cafes charge $3 or less.

Also, Does anyone think it is ridiculous that this new place is called "L stop" meanwhile "SecondStop" recently opened on Lorimer and Ainslie??

PantyHos Tonite!

Panty Hos
Boys Night! w/ DJs Kingdom, Magnan, House of Ladosha, Murphy Maxwell

Description
5/22, Back Room, 10 pm, $5

$5 VODKA COCKTAILS

Umoja Orchestra Tonight!

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.

check it out!
www.myspace.com/umojaorchestra

Tom Tom Magazine!

A new Brooklyn based magazine about female drummers!
tomtommagazine.wordpress.com/

Watch an interview they did with Kathi, drummer for the band, Handjobs and former bass player for my band, Boyskout.

Women's History Month in Fort Greene

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)

Information from: Fort Greene Association

Williamsburg Fashion Weekend Recap

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

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

Facebook event page

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/