This guy is clearly nuts, but also entertaining. Skip past the snake oil sales pitch to the 30 second mark:

The City Reliquary‘s original sign before it moved to Metropolitan in ’06. [image via]

The City Reliquary is proud to host the Southside Halloween Festival, an evening-long multi-disciplinary party with candy, music and games.
Created especially for the City Reliquary, there will be an atmospheric adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortune Teller Mikaela Corbo sharing her gift to all who dare to listen, neighborhood students from El Puente performing a dance act specifically created for this event, and local musician Jeff Davis playing the musical saw! William Allgood will serve as the evening’s ghoulish Master of Ceremonies.
There will be games and candy for the young and old alike. The Southside Halloween Festival is produced by local artists Stephen Cedars and Christina Latimer, and is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Friday October 30th, 2009
7-11pm, FREE, Donations gratefully accepted.
370 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer

RIP CMJ

As you may have heard, a Drano Bomb was detonated by an NYPD bomb squad a little after midnight Saturday night on S. 3rd b/t Roebling and Havemeyer, after being spotted on the sidewalk by an eagle-eyed resident.
For those of you not familiar with Anarchist Cookbook-type humbuggery, a Drano Bomb, as defined by Urban Dictionary, is “the combination of drano and aluminum foil balls in order to create a chemical reaction, that when placed inside a pop bottle, will explode and cause your face to burn off.”
Here’s a video showing us how it’s made, curiously set to the song “Winter Solstice” by The Tea Party:

My friends at Goddamn Cobras just released a video for Brooklyn-based band Pearl and the Beard. I posted about their search for some shoot locations, and it looks like they succeeded.

Anyone have Will Smith’s e-mail?

A little peek at a famous painting’s inspiration to start your week off creatively.

via fffound and The Daily What

If you’ve spent any time in Williamsburg, you’ve undoubtedly seen—uh,heard—Anthony Delia, aka Subaru Dude. One of the neighborhood’s many iconic characters, he can be spotted almost daily driving along in his red Subaru and singing classics by Sinatra and countless others, generally to the delight of everyone who happens to be in earshot. As a FREEwilliamsburg exclusive, filmmaker Russel Fong tracked Anthony down and conducted a great interview with this local icon. Enjoy:

Anthony will be hosting his own Caraoke night starting tomorrow at Woods bar:
Co-hosted by Miss Lola Belle and W/ DJ Flim Flam of the Kings of
Karaoke. Thousands of songs.
The Woods features a stage, backyard and Taco truck.
CAR-AOKE EVERY TUESDAY @10pm @ The Woods.
FREE.
The Woods
48 South 4th St between Wythe + Kent
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Check out the flyer after the jump.
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Neon Indian – Roots Studio

Cale Parks – Roots Studio

More Photos After the CMJump!

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And it was spectacular. Songs like “Bird on a Wire,” “Suzanne” and “Everybody Knows” percolated throughout Madison Square Garden for several hours, as Cohen demonstrated that you can still rock out with hat head and sing about naked ladies at age 75. The crowd was composed of about 3/4 people over the age of 50, and to be honest, hanging out with the bubbies was a welcomed alternative to the madness of CMJ that was going on downtown.
Far too many aging performers make their later tours all about huge commercial production standards and vivid on-stage distractions (see: The Rolling Stones, U2), but Cohen’s set is still tacked to the essence of his music and poetry. The biggest diversions on Friday were manifested by his appreciative interactions with his backup singers and musicians, and the occasional wild outburst by one of the AARP members in the crowd.
Smiling at his audience, Cohen commented that “I don’t know when it is our intention to pass this way again.” It was foreboding, kind of sad and made me eternally grateful that I had the chance to see him perform. Read on to the extended entry to see my (somewhat shoddy) iPhone video of “Chelsea Hotel No. 2,” for a fuller impression of this classy affair.
(image via EW.com)

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