Adlan Jackson

1 week ago | hellgatenyc.com | Adlan Jackson

For the second weekend in a row, the events at Brooklyn Mirage have been cancelled. The 6,000-plus capacity venue in East Williamsburg was supposed to open on May 2, but that night, as Hell Gate reported, the space still resembled an open construction site. Promoters then said that Brooklyn Mirage would open on May 9 with DJ Loud Luxury headlining a show, followed by DJ Cloonee hosting an all day/night party on Saturday.

1 week ago | hellgatenyc.com | Adlan Jackson

Walking down Meserole Street in Brooklyn this weekend, it was hard to imagine the parties that were scheduled to happen at Brooklyn Mirage, the massive outdoor concert venue in East Williamsburg. Instead of attendants waving metal detectors in front of the box office, there were piles of wooden pallets sitting on rented construction equipment. Metal cacti in concrete planters lined the sidewalk outside. Instead of lines around the block, there was a single security guard sitting on a folding chair.

2 weeks ago | hellgatenyc.com | Adlan Jackson

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2 weeks ago | hellgatenyc.com | Adlan Jackson

I've worried multiple times whether I've missed my chance to properly and thoroughly document the sartorial choices of the self-proclaimed swag mayor. But in my defense, the mayor's indictment era brought an all-time low for his swag levels. How do you judge the clothes and accessories of a man who defenestrated his closest friends, who was abandoned by his last remaining allies, who was reduced to grovelling on live television? I could hardly watch, much less analyze.

3 weeks ago | hellgatenyc.com | Adlan Jackson

Remember music journalism? Pardon the bong-rip thought, but I was talking to music journalist and friend-of-the-blog Arielle Gordon about how ironic it is that the media market decided it was done with music journalists at roughly the same moment that music journalists were starting to decide that we were done with being snobs—that we were really open-armed universalists rather than subculturalists.