Last week we told you about site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance’s latest project Home, a new piece performed at a location just off the Bedford L stop that invites “the audience to explore the body as a place while exploring issues of public and private space.” Evidently both the location and the intimacy were way too much for a Vanity Fair Brooklyn virgin/Feist fan/”bona fide Upper East Sider”/Tory Burch-shod reporter. Read More »

We spotted this on N. 6th Street in Williamsburg this weekend. Anyone know the artist behind the work? Also: Maybe these security tips weren’t as silly as we originally thought…

“I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous. I wasn’t really a hipster. I was a geek. That was me. Steve Jobs? Bill Gates? See how they look? That’s exactly how I looked. Worse! My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.”

Barry Manilow tells Men.style.com about his kiddie years (pre-frosted tips) living with his grandparents in the ‘burg. According to his Wikipedia entry: “It was they who encouraged him to take up his first musical instrument, the accordion, which was popular in his Jewish and Italian neighborhood.”

PS: Does anyone else remember that episode of Will & Grace where Will secretly waits in line for tickets to A Very Barry Christmas and Darlene from Roseanne guest stars as a psychotic “fanilow”?

[Via Free Williamsburg]

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Reader, if you’re the lucky sort, you could run into the work of a world-renowned artist on the streets of Williamsburg — from International graffiti artists like Banksy to local giants such as Elbow Toe and Peru Ana, everyone wants to leave their tag or a piece of work in the infamous Brooklyn nabe. We blame it on Gossip Girl. But in all seriousness, the high chances of accidentally stumbling on something cool is one of the best perks of living in such a creative hood. Well that, and having an unofficial spokesman like Todd P.

Local artist Joe Ponciano has been documenting the graffiti scene in the ‘burg for years, way before American Apparel arrived. He’s admired pieces, taken their picture and watched them come and go.

(Check out an image gallery of some of his favorites here.)

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