[Photo courtesy of azzface/flickr] The 17th Annual Sand Sculpting contest, which was sponsored by Astella Development Corp., was held in Coney Island on Saturday. Here are a few great shots of the event and the fun sand sculptures that were posted on flickr. [Photo courtesy of Sarah Paradise/flickr] [Photo courtesy of dietrich/flickr] [Photo courtesy of […]

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So, if you find yourself looking for an activity next Sunday, consider “The Greenpoint and Williamsburg Waterfront: The Farewell Tour.” The “farewell tour,” which is not the first waterfront tour to bear the name, take place on Sunday, August 5 from 2PM-4PM. It’s a walking tour sponsored by the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. […]

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If you read GL, the name Harriet Zucker might ring a bell. She is the artist and kind soul who has devoted a great deal of time to caring for and saving Red Hook’s Revere Sugar dogs. Ms. Zucker is now organizing a cool photography project called “What’s the Hook.” It will involve photographers shooting […]

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The good people at the Brooklyn Artists Gym emailed about two cool upcoming shows of winners that have won prizes in their shows. One is Pepe Villegas, who won first prize in BAG’s “Look See: Reflections” photography show. The other is Lucy Mink, who won first prize in the second annual “Small Works Show.” (That […]

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Here are nearly two-dozen vids (of widely varying quality) shot at the Siren Festival in Coney Island on Saturday and posted to you tube. Click the ones that interest you on the embed below or go over to the playlist.

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It’s a bit early to be posting about the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, which will take place this year on October 20 and 21. But we got an email from A.G.A.S.T. (Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour) asking us to help them pass the word to artists, which we’re happy to do. They write: We […]

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The emails about the The Great Hot Dog Cookoff on July that is also a fundraiser for the BARC Shelter in Williamsburg landed in a number of inboxes including ours. The event will take place on July 28 in a Fort Greene backyard, and proceeds will go to benefit the Williamsburg organization that helps many […]

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You have another opportunity this weekend to get rid of your old electronic devices–computers, TVs, cell phones, etc–in an environmentally responsible way. There will be an e-waste drive Saturday (7/14) through Monday (7/16) in Windsor Terrace at the Holy Name Church at 241 Prospect Park West. It’s sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center […]

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[Photo courtesy of Petanque America] Get ready for the annual Bastille Day Celebration on Smith Street. It will happen on Sunday, July 15, from Noon-8PM, with the epicenter being at Smith and Dean Streets. Here’s info from the Brooklyn Boule blog: Join us for the biggest Bastille Day celebration outside of France! Sunday July 15, […]

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We figure it’s worth reminding you about all the Brooklyn concert happenings this summer. You can go to Brooklyn Concerts to get to a couple of the sites or directly to the pages for the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series or for the Seaside Summer Concert Series, which kicked off last night with Tommy […]

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We got an email from Friends of Sunset Park about a series of Wednesday morning events that start today (7/11) and continue for the next four Wednesdays. They’re CityParks Kids performances and they start at 10:30 AM. Here’s what the email says: Are you 1, are you 2, ….? or, are you 101? Whatever your […]

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We’re not sure how we feel about “mysterious nocturnal fauna” in Prospect Park, as we enjoy predictable and known fauna. But if you want to check it out, you can participate in some Thursday Night Twilight Tours of Prospect Park in coming weeks. In the words of the park’s press office: Enjoy an evening of […]

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One of our favorite Brooklyn photobloggers, who’s always doing creative things, has a show from July 19 to August 14 at Design Within Reach in Brooklyn Heights, which is at 76 Montague Street. The show will feature more than a dozen photos, many of them shot in Gowanus, from Dalton Rooney, who runs the blog […]

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Get your tackle out of the closet and head down to Ye Olde Bait Shoppe (find some of your Brooklyn locations here) because it’s time to fish in Prospect Park. Meaning that the 60th Annual Macy’s Fishing Contest will be upon us from July 18-22. The Prospect Park people say: A rite of passage for […]

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We won’t be around tomorrow, or this would be on our must-see list for the weekend. The Japanese avante-rock band the Boredoms are leading 77 drummers in what is being described as a “once-in-a-lifetime performance” meant to be performed only once, on 07-07-07. The performance, which is sponsored by Jelly NYC and Vice Records, takes […]

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Tonight is the first film screening in the SummerScreen series presented by L Magazine at McCarren Pool. This is the second year for the outdoor films, and the series kicks off with Bring it On, which includes Kirsten Dunst. The films will be shown on Tuesday nights through August, and you can see the lineup […]

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Man Man played the McCarren Pool Party yesterday put on by Jelly NYC. It was, as always, a cool scene, though there is a much stepped-up corporate sponsorship presence this year and the entire effort is several levels above the kind of DIY thing it started out as last year. In any case, there’s a […]

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If you’re near the Union Avenue end of Havemeyer Street, you’ll see a statue poking above the buildings. That would be the Giglio, standing ready for the Giglio Feast that starts on Thursday, July 5. As always, the Gigilio has been redesigned with new decorative elements, and it’s brown and gold and white this year […]

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The territory of East River State Park in Williamsburg belongs to blogger INSIJS, who has followed it very closely from construction to opening. INSIJS reports that the park will be open on July 4 for fireworks viewing. Given that the midtown East River fireworks will be set off nearby, it will be one of the […]

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That didn’t take long. The Issue Project Room, which hosted its last event in its Gowanus Canal space on Carroll Street on Saturday night, is opening in a new location tomorrow night. The new space is in the wonderful Old American Can Factory at Third Avenue and Third Street (which is where the rooftop film […]

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We’d be remiss if we didn’t not that tonight is the Issue Project Room’s last night in its current space on the Gowanus. (No reason to totally mourn, though, as it starts up next week at the Old American Can Factory at Third Avenue and Third Street.). Tonight’s show, from the IPR’s website: SHARE celebrates […]

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Gowanus’ Issues Project Room is gone. In its place, starting this Sunday (7/1), is The Yard. They’ll be running shows in the performance space inside the silo next to the Carroll Street Bridge and on the shores of the Big G itself, and we’re personally happy to know that it will still serve as a […]

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There’s a play set in Coney Island called Goodbye April, Hello May playing at HERE, which is an arts space on Sixth Avenue. It runs through July 16 and is described as “a heartsick comedy about the decay of civilization.” HERE is at 145 Sixth Avenue and tickets can be ordered here. The description of […]

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If McCarren Pool can have concerts and dance performances, the Red Hook waterfront can have opera. Specifically, Giacomo Puccini’s Il Tabarro. The performance will be staged on the Mary A. Whalen, a former tanker that is being converted to a floating exhibition space and headquarters by PortSide New York. Set your iCals for September, which […]

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[Photo courtesy of paulpablopawel/flickr] “Stories in the Garden” start tonight at the Hoyt Street Garden at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hoyt Street. They’ll be taking place every Tuesday at 7:00PM from June 26-July 31 and are described as “delightful story readings by parents and neighbors.” The readings for kids include free lemonade and […]

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