Last week’s episode of Bored to Death featured “faux” Jonathan, played by Jason Schwartzman, spinning on a wheel while having knives thrown at him during a book signing at (where else?) Book Court. Here’s a video of the REAL Ames doing a similar stunt last year.
So, how you likin’ this season so far?
The Kin
The Brooklyn Bugle rounds up bands featured in its performance series who are playing shows this week at the annual CMJ Music Marathon.
Check out performances by The Kin, MyNameisJohnMichael and more here.
Also playing CMJ is We Are Augustines. See their Brooklyn Bugle Sessions performance after the jump. Continue Reading →
Last week the NY Times profiled a Boerum Hill resident with a thing for taxidermy. We thought that, if you missed it, you should know all about this. Like right now: Continue Reading →
The Brooklyn Bugle reports on the latest exhibition at the Urban Folk Art Gallery [99 Smith Street]: Continue Reading →
HBO’s Bored to Death Season 3 premieres tonight at 9pm. Series creator Jonathan Ames and John Hodgman will be at Book Court [163 Court Street] tonight to mingle with fans and watch the show.
Watching? At Book Court? Comment away! Continue Reading →
Alex McCord tweeted tonight that her and husband’s rumored departure from the Real Housewives of New York City is now official:
Nothing was decided until today, but as of tonight a decision has been reached. @SimonvanKempen & I are leaving #RHONY, sadly but amicably.
van Kempen adds:
I am sad too but I don’t think this is the last you’ll see of us.
CHB photo by Sarah Portlock
Cobble Hillbilly Alex McCord claims that she and husband Simon van Kempen are not off The Real Housewives of New York City. Reports earlier today claimed that McCord, Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin had been axed for the show’s fifth season.
Late this afternoon McCord tweeted:
Speaking for myself only, there is no decision yet whether I’m in or out of #RHONY -Nothing’s finalized, though I’d like to do another year.
She adds via Facebook:
I can confirm that I have not been ‘fired’ by BRAVO for next season’s Real Housewives of New York City. There are many rumors swirling around. Here’s the truth – Simon & I are still under consideration for season 5 & we’ll know one way or another very soon. I have to laugh at all the purported ‘insiders’ giving ‘off the record’ quotes. Some of the things I’ve read are frankly just absurd. Check back here or on Twitter & I’ll let you know the truth when I know something definitive.
As for Zarin and Bensimon, neither have commented as of late Thursday afternoon. Reports say that the three women were told of Bravo’s decision this morning.
Cobble Hillbillies/Real Housewives of New York City castmembers Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen announced the formation of Aluxe Home, a bed and bath goods company. Full presser after the jump. Continue Reading →
The Brooklyn Bugle reports on Usual Suspects 2, an art show (running to the end of August) featuring local legends of graffiti from the 70′s and 80′s at Adam Suerte’s Urban Folk Art Gallery [101 Smith Street]:
Brooklyn Bugle: “At the time I was doing it, we were inventing all these styles that they’re using now,” said artist Kenneth Durant (aka SLAVE), who was part of the infamous Fab 5 crew that covered entire subway trains with graffiti in the 1970s. “I get a lot of respect from these newer guys because I was doing it for real on the trains,” Durant noted.
Past and present collide in Durant’s untitled painting on display in the exhibition. His tag or graffiti signature looms large on the canvas, with just a glimpse of a train car in the background. Painted when Durant first returned to New York City in 2009 after a 30-year absence from the scene, it is actually a reproduction of a SLAVE graffiti piece from 1977, when “bombing” No. 5 subway trains with his work was a regular habit.
Our pals at the Brooklyn Downtown Star profile Cobble Hillbilly/Brooklyn Tattoo owner Adam Suerte this week:
Brooklyn Downtown Star: Among Suerte’s art are cartoons, comics and paintings reflecting everything from “sneakers hanging off light poles” to the view from the Brooklyn Promenade. His images can be seen hanging around Brooklyn Tattoo, giving the shop a classic urban feel.
He also illustrates for local businesses and has done work for all of the Rock Band video games, he said.
Urban images are “a constant backdrop of my life,” Suerte said. “It’s my history, it’s where I am now.”
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