Manhattan Inn, the Greenpoint bar serving delicious drinks and sweet piano soundtracked romance, is hosting a free concert series throughout the summer. According to the venue, the showcase features:
[C]reative music across genres and fostering a community of musicians who find themselves at home both in the concert halls of Manhattan and the DIY venues of Brooklyn. The series invites emerging and established artists to challenge their notions of live performance and interpretation within the cultural climate of NYC today.
South Williamsburg cocktail bar Dram made a name for itself serving up carefully blended seasonal drinks — it’s even drawn some national publicity, as evidenced in this perpetually hilarious clip of Martha Stewart getting a little toasted there (and then drunk-eating some Pies n’ Thighs deliciousness). But the NYT reports that from July 20-23, Dram will be taking a brief hiatus from mixology to moonlight as a bona fide dive bar — complete with cheap drinks and decidedly low-brow snacks.
The pop-up dive, appropriately called 86′d, takes place during the New Orleans drink convention (umm, why aren’t we there?) Tales of the Cocktail, a four-day long mixology smorgasbord complete with competitions, tastings and seminars. Since Dram is losing several of its best bartenders to the Big Easy for the weekend, they’ll be turning over the reins to two of the bar’s lesser-known staff members.
So for the second-to-last weekend in July, expect to see the bar’s typical $10-14 cocktails replaced with noncraft domestic beers, Jagermeister, and pickleback shots. If you’re set on a more, uhm, elaborate drink you can enjoy a White Russian or Salty Dog. All drinks will be $4-8. As for food, the bar will be nixing the typical tapas-style small bites in favor of pimento cheese bites and boiled peanuts ($2).
Last night, acrobat Seanna Sharpe climbed on top of the Williamsburg Bridge and gave onlookers a show fit for a circus. Apparently inspired by Phillipe Petit’s tightrope walk across the twin towers, Sharpe performed crazy, deadly and pretty rad tricks on top of the bridge.
“My goal is to face my fear and to inspire others to face their fears,” Sharpe said in an interview before she went up the bridge. She said she recently climbed the bridge twice in the middle of the night to gauge how difficult it would be to suspend herself from the top of the tower.
“The first time I did it, I didn’t make it to the top I was so scared. The second time the adrenaline was running high,” Sharpe said.
It took approximately seven minutes for Sharpe and Skinner to scale the tower, followed by fifteen minutes of midair twirls and flips. During that time, Sharpe remained tethered to the bridge only by a length of silk rope she had tied to the bridge beams.
They also call the Williamsburg Bridge “the least attractive of the city’s three downtown crossings.” We’ll take it if it means we get cooler performers there.
Two days ago, the Graham Avenue C-Town issued a community alert on their tumblr page (yes, they have a tumblr), saying:
Today we were alerted by the police that somebody is sexually assaulting women as they walk up the stairways off the Graham Ave & Grand St L train stops. 3 women have been attacked to date. The attack on Graham Ave happened late at night (3-5 AM).
Unfortunately, further details were not provided and a cursory Google search yields nothing. So if you have information on these incidents, please contact NYPD.
Exciting news for anyone who loves Egg: owner George Weld has been renovating a space on 109A North 3rd next to Mast Brothers Chocolate. Eater has the details on the new spot.
“Details are still hazy, but Weld says the new, “more relaxed” restaurant will “grow organically out of Egg,” and better integrate their farm. Expect a focus on dinner service this time, along with a stronger emphasis on vegetables. Weld is still looking for some more funding, so there’s no word on an opening date just yet.”
BirdDog Productions and RethinkPopMusic will play host this weekend to Bushwick Walkabout Festival– a two day music festival at Brooklyn Fireproof‘s outdoor space. Bushwick Walkabout fest will not only feature over a dozen great bands (more on that later) but also free vodka and beer thanks to a partnership with Staropramen and Reyka Vodka, a BIG thanks indeed. Tickets are on sale now and you can purchase tickets for either the Friday the 15th or Saturday the 16th for $10 a day, or $15 for both days–you can also earn yourself a ticket by writing a band review. For a full festival lineup, more info and tickets visit the Bushwick Walkabout site but below are a few of our picks for bands to keep an ear out for (by day):
Ethereal yet rootsie and with vocals that verge on operatic/ Antony Hegarty-esque this Brooklyn electropop outfit will have you dancing but doing so thoughtfully… which is really the best way to do it.
Philadelphia youngen’s Cold Fronts specialize in that certain form of rock that makes us nostalgic for the “good old days”…whenever those may have been.
Saturday’s headliner is none other than Boston duo Magic Man. This band’s special brand of lo-fi pop combines earthiness with electronic bliss–think Fleet Foxes as backed by Postal Service. In short Magic Man are pure magic, man.
Released in July 2011, Ghostfunk pairs one of my favorite hip-hop artists, Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah, with vintage African funk, high-life, and psychedelic rock music. Artwork by Joe Dichiara.
Getting ready for the inaugural Rock Beach tomorrow? Want to learn the words to a new Wild Yaks song so that you can sing along with hundreds of your newest, closest, sweatiest friends? The correct answers are yes to both.
This new Wild Yaks song “Million Years Old,” is typically anthemic. It bursts at the seams with tension, as Rob Bryn and crew sing “all my friends are dead/I ain’t never had no friends” and recount the passing of time in a way that only these dudes can.
Alright carnivores, start working up your appetites.
Meatball Shop, currently at 84 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side, is expanding and opening up a new location in Williamsburg next week.
If you’re not familiar with the restaurant, they are a meat lovers dream, serving a wide variety of meatballs, with five different kinds of house-ground balls and various sauces. Then you can have your balls served whichever you like, as sliders, heroes, pastas or just a side.
The Brooklyn location will also include a full bar and make-your-own cocktail menu, with check boxes where customers can choose combinations of liquors and mixers like blackberry and mint.
Meatball Shop will be located at 170 Bedford Avenue, near N. 7th Street.
