Edible Brooklyn presents "the Great Pinch Tail, Suck Head Event" at Brooklyn Brewery on May 23rd, a night of beer drinking and crawfish peeling! Crawfish will be provided by Nick Suarez and Theo Peck of the Food Experiments -- with potatoes, corn, sausage and mushrooms added to the pot. ...
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On May 16th, the Chicago Fire Soccer Club will host its second annual Art of Futbol, an art exhibition featuring local artists and their original work depicting the beautiful game of soccer. It will be an evening of art, light appetizers and music provided by Chicago DJs Soulphonetics. You ...
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NYC photographer Lisa Leone is now holding her solo exhibit, THEN, at HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Los Angeles, California. The exhibit captures hip-hop before the art-form became an industry, when it was still a community. THEN is a deeply personal portrayal of the last days of hip-hop's ...
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The Opposition Party, a ten-piece Chicago musical collective, will be live at theWHISTLER tonight in Chicago. They'll be playing two full live sets, with Chi-town DJ duo Soulphonetics spinning in between! OP's polyrhythmic music performance (particularly the cross-pollination of Afri ...
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Maxwell, one of the most prolific voices in R&B and soul, has kept us longing for the remaining installments of BLACKsummers’night, but he will soon bless us with a three city, six day tour in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Newark, NJ this summer. Accompanied by his 11 piece band, he'll per ...
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New York City was taken over by Metropolitan Museum of Art's Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations Costume Institute Gala on Monday, May 7th. The fundraising event was the largest in its history, raising $11 million with over 800 guests, and serves as the Costume Institute's ma ...
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This Cinco de Mayo, New York City's Le Poisson Rouge hosted the 3rd Annual Cinco de Gallo presented by Mex and the City and Que Bajo!?. It was a night of electro folklore, digital cumbia, and tropical bass with DJs Uproot Andy and Geko Jones, Mexican rapper and social advocate--C ...
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Fredericksburg, Virginia's Art First Gallery is having its May 2012 exhibit featuring all of its member artists, and will run through May 28th. Among the artwork to be exhibited is Linda Warshaw’s acrylic painting “The Puppy,” which shows her sensitivity to all pets and her hopeful ...
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Ontario-based A Tribe Called Red is bringing their unique mix of hip-hop, dancehall, electro, and pow pow music on tour this Spring and Summer. They'll be hitting cities throughout Canada as well as NYC and Boston. See the full list of dates below and listen some the group's latest mix below. ...
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HARD has released the official line-up of its Summer 2012 music festival! The event will take place over the course of two days--for the first time, August 3rd and 4th, at L.A. Historic Park in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be over fifty bands and DJs on four massive stages. Acts include ...
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East Atlanta Village is in for a treat from experimental-pop band Back Pockets, indie/electo-r&b group BOSCO and Tennessee-based indie artist Fine Peduncle who will all take the stage at The Basement at Graveyard Tavern on April 27th. If you haven't already purchased BOSCO's lat ...
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Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, whose collection is focused on contemporary and historic design, has opened a storefront space in Harlem in an effort to explore new venues throughout New York. The new 1,500-square-foot space, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, resides at ...
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It's that time again! The 2012 Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Festival will take place on April 28th and 29th at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. The annual two-day event attracts thousands of comic art lovers and creators from around the globe to celebrate the ...
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On Saturday, May 5th, Mex and the City and Que Bajo!? present the 3rd Annual Cinco de Gallo -- a night of electro folklore, digital cumbia, and tropical bass at NYC's Le Poisson Rouge. The event highlights contemporary Mexican culture in New York and showcases both folkloric traditions and emer ...
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This Thursday, be sure to hit up Brooklyn Bowl, one our favorite venues in Williamsburg, where Questlove of The Roots will continue his weekly Bowl Train residency accompanied by throwback Soul Train videos. His vinyl collection contains more than 50,000 records giving him the ability to t ...
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iLTHY is set to release its Spring 2012 collection on Saturday, April 28th in stores and online as well. The Cleveland, Ohio-based shop promises this season will bring big changes including more color and a more diverse line. One new piece this season is the Lady Wahoo t-shirt, which fea ...
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On April 28th, our Chicago friends Soulphonetics will be celebrating the three year anniversary of their monthly global dance party, Dance Syndrome. We've been featuring this event since last summmer and hope guys can come out and play for this one. You'll enjoy world sounds provided by Ve ...
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Hennessy recently launched its new campaign, Wild Rabbit, with a celebrity-filled party at NYC's Highline Stages. Timbo and Missy took the stage with their new track "Triple Threat," as did Erykah Badu—who performed her 2008 track "The Healer," while Solange graced the crowd with a ...
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DJ Reaganomics is bringing some electro-tropical rhythms to the Que Bajo!? party this Thursday, April 12th at Dominion NYC. Expect to hit the dancefloor to an eclectic mashup of New Orleans Brass, Dancehall, Moombahton, Reaggeton, Kuduro, Cumbia, Salsa, Batucada, Baile Funk, Putaria, Electro, ...
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Art First Gallery's April 2012 exhibit features two of its member artists, Paula Rose and Sally Rhone-Kubarek. Sally is exhibiting original illustrations that make up the ABC book, Mini Mysteries in the Middle, which is illustrated in batiks on rice paper and written in alliteration. Wh ...
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