Last Friday, around 9 p.m., some friends and I happened upon a concert at East River State Park in Williamsburg. A Weezer concert. It was at capacity, so we found our way to a bench about a block away where we could still see and hear the concert. A bench behind a soccer field. The [...]

Latest Unicycles mix from Jables, just in time for wherever you may be traveling and needing summer songs (or if you just need something to pep you up at your computer). Enjoy! I’ll be posting my own mix-summer mix soon …

Ibsen in Bushwick … why not? Saint Jude of the Cats is putting on Lady from the Sea (Henrik Ibsen’s “quirky 1888 drama of necromancy, gender politics, and family dysfunction”) at Chez Bushwick this weekend (Thurs., Fri. & Sat. @ 8 p.m.; 304 Boerum Street #11). If it’s good, I’m pulling for Chekhov’s “The Cherry [...]

On my other blog, I’ve got a beginning-of-summer mix.

Or “I ate at every restaurant in Greenpoint and Williamsburg this weekend.  Go on and ogle that pulled pork slider from Teddy’s Bar and Grill. [Photo courtesy of the Goddamn Cobras.] Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint was this past Sunday (if you did not happen to notice the raucous crowds feasting hungrily on North 11th) to benefit Northside [...]

Fresh off my “Why I Love Greenpoint” post, I see this: Tonight marks the launch of a weekly dance jam called No Lights No Lycra. It takes place inside a dimly lit church where attendants are encouraged to do nothing but dance in the dark. It’s an ingenious alternative to dancing in clubs where intoxicated [...]

A celebration of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, featuring short screenings from all 25 members, plus a dance party curated by DJ Phantom Power & DJ Knight of the Goddamn Cobras and live music from Dynasty Electric. Knitting Factory 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, New York Cover: $10 Doors: 7:30

Lots of food policy, agriculture news this week: * Pittsburgh considers reining in urban agriculture, beekeeping and chicken raising. Says the mayor’s spokesperson, “Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it.” Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear …(but darling for the way she manages [...]

In 2004, I wrote precisely two music reviews. Actually, these are the only two music reviews I’ve ever written; it turns out I am not a really great music reviewer. But I am, apparently, good at random pop cultural allusions. At the time, I described McKay (who at the time was putting out her first [...]

All right, there’s really not that much snow on the ground here in North Brooklyn. I just want to bond with my DC friends who keep twittering about it, okay? I want a shared cultural moment and, dammit, the weather just won’t cooperate! Nonetheless. You should come out this weekend to: 1) The Love Party [...]

New mixcast from one Jables G. McKibben, aka Justin Cobra, aka DJ Knight, aka my boyfriend. Unicycles 72 :: Icebergs Across the Open Plains This new Unicycles is for the re-energizing adventurer in your life, four blankets deep, safe and sound, regenerating ferocity for future battles. Soundcloud it here. Download it here. Facebook Group.

We shot a lovely two-song session with Wakey! Wakey! this past weekend, in what will hopefully be the first of many for the Goddamn Cobras‘ “Cobra Den Invitational” series. I’m trying to teach myself to use Final Cut Pro, so I shot some footage on my little digital camera while we were setting up, and [...]

Had the pleasure of listening to a band called Bow Ribbons at Monkey Town Tuesday night. They only played two songs, because they were sharing the evening with Jolie Holland, Mike Wexler, Garrett Devoe and others (in what Monkey Town described as “a night of medieval sonic drone guitar rock, fiddle, folk-pop and expert percussion”) [...]