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1 week ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
BRIC unveils the full schedule for the 2025 installment of 'Celebrate Brooklyn,' featuring appearances from Grace Jones, Janelle Monáe, Nick Hakim, and more If your summer plan needed some juice, BRIC may have just provided the battery.
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1 week ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
The 2025 Met Gala may have come and gone, but for those of us who use the annual benefit as a discovery platform for innovators in fashion, the best part is arguably just beginning. To aid your research, we did a little digging only to learn many of the evening’s most discussed red carpet moments were helmed by a Brooklyn born or raised designer, stylist, or brand.
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1 week ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
City officials pulled the plug on Brooklyn Mirage just hours before it was set to host its first show of the year After Brooklyn Mirage CEO Josh Wyatt pledged to be “100 percent” ready for a May 1 launch, the venue was forced to cancel its opening day performance from Sara Landry just hours before she took the stage. And the weekend’s not looking too promising, either. According to a Brooklyn Paper report, the Department of Buildings put three of the venue’s construction permits on hold after...
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2 weeks ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
Don’t look now, but Summerstage is back, and this year’s slate is as hot as ever. The annual city-wide reclamation of city parks by (mostly) free live music and arts programming will commence, with an “opening ceremony” of sorts, on June 4 in Central Park with performances Marcus Miller, The Soul Rebels, and Tank and The Bangas. But this is a season-long effort with more than 70 shows across 13 parks in all five boroughs.
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3 weeks ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
It seems under-delivering on amenities and basic maintenance is becoming the quiet standard of loud luxury. And, if the spiritual (and physical) emptiness of Brooklyn Tower didn’t prove it, a high-end residential building on the Greenpoint waterfront might. According to a report from Curbed, tenants at the Eagle + West buildings overlooking the East River at the very northern edge of the borough are noticing some very inelegant quirks to their ostensibly lavish digs.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
If you’ve followed these pages over the years, you already know Record Store Day is every damn day, and Brooklyn’s selection of record shops is so extensive it is effectively unmatched. But some of those excavation sites require a bit more digging than others to unearth, which is a loving labor, honestly, not entirely unlike the art of crate-crashing itself.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
The JAY-Z-backed Roc Nation School at LIU's Brooklyn campus awarded a "debt-free" scholarship to dozens of students in its inaugural class When the Roc Nation School launched at Long Island University’s Downtown Brooklyn campus in 2021, as many as 50 students from its inaugural class were awarded what they believed were “debt-free” scholarships by JAY-Z‘s behemoth entertainment company. Meaning: no loans or grants would be required for the completion of their degree. However, at least a dozen...
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
At 4 p.m. this afternoon, President Trump is expected to gather the press in the White House’s Rose Garden to formally unveil his tariffs plan on what he’s dubbed, for some reason, “Liberation Day.”Looming over the economy for months—sending stock portfolios and the financial solvency of families across the country into a tailspin with every mention—the wholesale tax on imported goods from Canada and China has already impacted the day-to-day lives of most Americans.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
Night Owl Video, a new video store in Brooklyn, is set to open on April 11 at 288 Grand St. “Death to Streamers! Physical Media Forever!” reads the banner of a website for Night Owl Video, a new video store coming to Williamsburg in a few weeks that is very clearly ready to square up with the streaming giants for your eyes and dollars. According to Gothamist, the shop is slated to open on April 11 at 288 Grand St. in the belly of Williamsburg, where it will no doubt feed countless local...
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
A growing group of spa-goers is leaving the thermal pools, steam rooms, and saunas of Bathhouse feeling a little less than clean and/or tranquil. According to a recent report from Curbed, both of the spa chain’s NYC locations—on North 10th in Williamsburg and West 22nd in Flatiron—are beginning to wrack up a concerning amount of complaints regarding the company’s sanitary practices and overall quality of amenities provided.
