One week ago, I headed to Prospect Park on a beautiful Saturday evening to meet up with friends before seeing the Daptone Super-Soul Revue at the bandshell. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings brought down the house as one of the last shows of the Celebrate Brooklyn series, and they played to a full house under [...]
June 30, 2010
I rode my bike to Commodore Barry Park early Sunday afternoon to take photos for NYMag.com of the Afro-Punk Festival. To put it very simply, afro-punk music is alternative/punk music that is created by musicians of African descent. Much like traditional punk, afro-punk is not just a genre, but also a community. To quote from [...]
June 17, 2010
My thanks go to all 100+ of you who entered to win tickets in our very first giveaway yesterday — I really wish we could’ve given everyone passes to see The National! We had so many fun summertime ideas submitted, from Coney Island skeeball to swimming at the barge pool. And when it came to [...]
June 16, 2010
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING ENTRIES! Brooklyn-based indie faves The National will take the stage tonight at Radio City Music Hall to a sold-out crowd in support of their new album, High Violet. For the Love of Brooklyn has an extra pair of tickets to the show and is itching to give them away [...]
May 11, 2010
After the brief downpour on Saturday morning I ventured out on my bike and with camera and a 55 mm lens in tow. The winds were were blustering but otherwise a pretty day, sun shining and in the 70′s. I went to the Groundbreaking of the Richard B. Fisher Building at The Brooklyn Academy of [...]
October 30, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I discovered this article in the Brooklyn Paper promoting a new program from the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District designed to bring a “sprawling, open-air music festival” to the ‘hood. Last night, they did just that — from Dean Street all the way south to 18th Street, there were musicians [...]
August 14, 2010