Best Wings In Brooklyn? Come to Red Star to Find Out

February 10, 2011  |  Food, Glorious Food, Greenpoint, Happenings  |  No Comments

Red Star sports bar and restaurant in North Brooklyn will be hosting the Best Wings in Brooklyn Competition Saturday, February 12 starting at 2 PM. Did we mention that you get to try the wings fo’ freee?!

This is a battle of epic proportion and one that is sure to leave…

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Friday Music to Coast You Into the Weekend: Lisa Jaeggi

February 4, 2011  |  Bushwick, Music, Williamsburg  |  No Comments

Pete’s Candy Store, a perennial neighborhood music favorite served up some great new talent last night. Meet Lisa Jaeggi, a Maryland native who calls Brooklyn home.  A singer songwriter of tremendous talent with a great soulful voice – comfortable mashing up Bon Iver (For Emma) and Beyonce (Halo) making it…

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Brooklyn’s East River Ferry Will Ride In June

February 2, 2011  |  Community, DUMBO, Greenpoint, Real Estate, Williamsburg  |  1 Comment

Back in August we made mention of a North Brooklyn G Ferry making it’s way to our shoreline. The ink has dried on the contract written between the NYC Economic Development council and Red Hook’s own ferry operator NY Waterway. Now there’s a new transportation alternative for those closer…

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Rats, Mice, Roaches and Spiders Never Felt so Good

February 2, 2011  |  Happenings  |  No Comments

We get some crazy requests now and again for postings here on Brooklyn365. There are few times that they are as excellent as this and worth putting up. But when it comes to pest extermination, reality TV and Animal Planet, it’s on.

So if your house is infested with pests (and…

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Meat: Meet Local Beer. Now Dance.

January 31, 2011  |  Food, Glorious Food, Happenings  |  No Comments

Tomorrow night (February 1st) at the Vanderbilt, the pig meets the beer meets the stomach meets euphoria. Vegetarians need not apply.

Our friends over at Sixpoint Brewery have teamed up with the folks at the Vanderbilt for a feast to beat all feasts. Four courses, four spectacular beers. Happiness goes well…

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Design a Wine Label, Be Brooklyn’s Sauvignon Blanc Hero

January 28, 2011  |  Community, Food, Glorious Food, Williamsburg  |  No Comments

You have three days to design the most kick-ass wine label ever and submit it for a chance to be the featured wine label on Brooklyn Oenology’s 2010 Sauvignon Blanc.

Since 2005, Brooklyn Oenology, an urban winery using local grapes and production, has been showcasing and supporting Brooklyn-based artists by…

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Men with Beards Eat Cupcakes at the 2011 Brooklyn Beardfest & Stache Bash

January 27, 2011  |  Community, Happenings, Park Slope  |  No Comments

Wait, that can’t be right. Seriously? Sex and the City has had a profound effect on this city, so much so that even the burly of the burly are eating cupcakes these days.

To the main point though, the 2011 Brooklyn Beardfest & Stache Bash is  going on January 31, 2011…

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Darwin Deez: Studio Sessions Bad Day

January 27, 2011  |  Music, Williamsburg  |  No Comments

Williamsburg’s own gangly music hero Darwin Deez performs “Bad Day” from his 2010 self-titled album at Dubway Studios in New York City. Now I know that most of you probably have the day off and well, damn, that’s a real good day but Bad Day is a good song about…

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Das Racists Kick it in a Bodega

January 25, 2011  |  Music  |  No Comments

You never know what you’re going to find in a bodega. I’m generally on the lookout for Organic Granola and Purple Drank, and my beloved Bodega Cats , but what about stumbling upon Brooklyn’s favorite hip-hop goof troop Das Racist.

Pretty dope video from the folks at Pitchfork, who caught up…

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Homeless Man Attacked by Rat on BK 4-Train

January 13, 2011  |  Community, Opinion  |  No Comments

Seriously, it doesn’t get much worse than this. Here you are just trying to catch a snooze away from the elements on the warm and comfortable 4-train and BAM, you wake up with a rat on your face. A RAT ON YOUR FACE. Need I repeat myself? Just watch and…

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