The New Kids on the Block performed on the Today Show last week. Watch it: I don’t know. This upsets me a little. I’m not sure why. Oh, maybe it’s because the New Kids are close to 40 and are performing a medley of their hit songs from when they were 17. Because it’s painful [...]
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Last night I met with the greatest book group ever, Booklyn (yeah, you wish you’d thought of that clever name), at South Slope’s Quarter Bar. Located on 5th Avenue and 20th Street, the bar has been up and running for less than a year, and is a real find. What they have been getting the [...]
West Virigina votes today. It’s interesting to see how this has all been shaping up lately. Each of the candidates trying hard to connect with the hard working types of the midwest…ish..ness. First, Obama picks up a masculine centric game that doesn’t end in embarassment. Pool. By the way I’ve tried that behind-the-back shot several [...]
The lineup for the Sirens Festival (aka the sweatiest, smelliest festival in Brooklyn) has been announced. It includes bands like Broken Social Scene, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (which I recently learned is a combination of the words “dick” and “jerk”), The Helio Sequence and These Are Powers. Sounds fun. The festival is at Coney Island on [...]
The lineup for the Sirens Festival (aka the sweatiest, smelliest festival in Brooklyn) has been announced. It includes bands like Broken Social Scene, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (which I recently learned is a combination of the words “dick” and “jerk”), The Helio Sequence and These Are Powers. Sounds fun. The festival is at Coney Island on [...]
About a year ago I was invited to see Monster Eiffel Tower, a Brooklyn Rock trio who were playing at the Knitting Factory. I was not particularly excited to go to the show. For starters, their music was described to me as being a little harder and more experimental than my usual tastes. There was a [...]
My previous discussion of the Brooklyn Blogfest was marred by the assertion that the event was awash in “self-congratulation and self-promotion.” Not that I actually wrote that – Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn did – but that was the general idea behind one paragraph. I think that probably hurt some feelings. The actual point of [...]
Last night, a wee faction of Brooklyn Skeptic attended the Third Annual Brooklyn Blogfest – an event which featured our three favorite things: free beer, free vegan cupcakes and Brooklyn blogging. The event was held at the Brooklyn Lyceum, which is a building on Fourth Avenue, seemingly crafted out of the ruins of the Berlin [...]
McCarren Park Pool released their summer film schedule yesterday. We went to a film or two out here last year, and while the atmosphere and view aren’t as nice as the Brooklyn Bridge Park series, there are fewer people there (you don’t have to worry about showing up early) and it’s much more relaxed. The [...]
This is Marilyn Manson’s new brand of absinthe, “Mansinthe.” I didn’t make up that name. It’s what it’s called. Mansinthe. Pretty clever– not. I don’t know what MM actually has to do with this product, except that it has his name all over it. Marilyn Manson is so predictable. Of [...]