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Christmas Past & Present

I know that it is just about Thanksgiving, but the momentum has already begun toward Christmas. Thanksgiving in America lights the Christmas Season fuse. While shopping is surely dampened due to the sour economy,...

Big Bad Wolf Roller Coaster to Retire

The Big Bad Wolf roller coaster at Busch Gardens will retire on September 7 after 25 years of scaring the crap out of people. The Big Bad Wolf, which makes its lair at the Williamsburg, VA theme park, is th...

InBev says it has closed Anheuser Busch takeover

The U.S. Department of Justice cleared the deal last week after InBev agreed to sell Labatt USA, which sells the Canadian beer in the U.S. It will hold on to Labatt in Canada. InBev did not say who would buy the...

Knitting Factory Moving to Brooklyn

Say it ain't so... perhaps my favorite venue in NYC is closing its doors... From the downstairs tap room where one can hear latino heavy metal to the mainstage where I saw Gogol Bordello rock the building to its...

The Road to Independence Lives On in Williamsburg

General George Washington, accompanied by French general Marquis de Lafayette, addressed a large crowd yesterday in Market Square, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. His speech was short and to the point, "more...

Having fun in NYC is as easy as stepping outside.

I grew up in Queens, New York and even though I moved to buffalo when I was 13, I make periodic visits to friends every year.

'Fake Brooklyn Indie Band' Makes Faux-Real NYC Debut

Michael Eisner waxed poetic about The All For Nots at SXSW this year, hailing the 'faux-reality', pseudo-docu, music-drama, web series, as one of the potential futures of online content produced as 'branded...

Attn Artists: Call For Entries

(printable pdf at: http://www.damstuhltrager.com/exhibit_years/AU_COURANT.pdf ) DAM , STUHLTRAGER GALLERY C A L L F O R E N T R I E S Currently accepting submissions for "AU COURANT" A survey of the newest in Contemporary Art Curated by Leah Stuhltrager and...

Josh Hartnett Gets Turned Away by Hipster Bowling Alley

Josh Hartnett got turned away over the weekend by Brooklyn hipster bowling alley Gutter. I was there  the night before he was! Of course, I wasn't travelling with underage girls..."It's always exceptionally...

Proposal Presented for Greenpoint Park

"A team of volunteer urban planners and landscape architects debuted their proposal for the new state park on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg that utilizes the former industrial space as an ecologically sustainable riverside park. The proposal, which was shown to the public last...

Adventures in CoWorking #2, Friday Morning in Williamsburg

I did not get much work done in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York...Not Virginia) last Friday morning for my second shot at CoWorking.  Our Internet access went from slow to inexistent.  A positive side effect of the lack of Connectivity was that instead of being...

Kitchen Pirates...Alternative 'Restaurants' like 'The Whisk and Laddle' in Wi...

This 'alternative' restaurant illustrates how 'Small is The New Big' (one of Seth Godin's mantras or selling points). Located in a 95 year old industrial building on the Williamsburg (New York City not Virginia) waterfront, 'The Whisk and Ladle'...

Beats & BBQ: The Labor Day Edition in Brooklyn

Back back popular demand!!!! Beats & BBQ: The Labor Day Edition will offer the same formula that made first one so successful.  Soulful Dance Music, BBQ and YOU!!!!  In the neighborhood...

Verizon FiOS Service Introduced in Brooklyn, NY

"Verizon announces that its ultra-fast FiOS Internet service is now available to customers in parts of Brooklyn's Canarsie, Mill Basin, Georgetown and Bergen Beach communities. The service is also available in several buildings in Williamsburg and downtown Brooklyn. FiOS...

CONDO CRACKDOWN: CITY SLAPS LAX B'KLYN BUILDERS

"Since late June, Department of Buildings agents have been cracking down on new development projects along the burgeoning Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfronts, issuing stop-work orders to 20 of 29 existing excavation sites, according to a Post review of DOB records."

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