May 2012
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Calypso by Paul Rome and Roarke Menzies
Brooklyn writer (and contributor to The Bushwick Review #2) Paul Rome and performer-composer Roarke Menzies bring their latest collaboration, Calypso, to The Bushwick Starr on May 9 – 12, 2012. This literary performance pairs a personal account of a 21st century Manhattan romance with irreverent retellings of two of Western literature’s most iconic epics: Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. In...
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April 2012
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Nights in UltraViolet
One of the best things that has happened through The Bushwick Review is meeting the fine people that are the GodDamnCobras and their friends. The theme of this Bushwick Review blog again and again is that I always want to meet people who make things, they are the people that are most interesting to me. The GodDamnCobras have made music videos, a supper club, a Western movie, and most recently, an...
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Brooklyn Zine Fest
The Bushwick Review will be tabling at the Brooklyn Zine Fest this Sunday April 15th at Public Assembly 70 North 6th St in Williamsburg. All three issues of The Bushwick Review will be for sale, as a well as a teaser CD that has the first two episodes of The New York Crimes, a radio play that many Bushwick Contributors acted in. I’m so excited for this event, I can’t wait to check out...
March 2012
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The New York Crimes radio play Trailer
If The Bushwick Review was created out of a love for print zines that you can hold in your hand, well here is The New York Crimes, created out of a love for another old medium, the radio drama. The New York Crimes is a modern radio play written and recorded by Kristen Felicetti, who is the creator of The Bushwick Review, and most of its twenty person cast are Bushwick Review contributors. With...
Vaughn Schoonmaker runs the Boston Marathon for...
Vaughn Schoonmaker wrote a short story for The Bushwick Review #2. He is always doing a million awesome things, whether it be directing music videos, writing novellas, or hosting fantastic parties. Now he’s running the Boston Marathon for a great non-profit organization called Summer Search. Summer Search teams up with low-income teens who haven’t been dealt the best hand of cards and...
February 2012
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Michele and Alison at Love Birds Valentine's...
Two Bushwick Review contributors Alison Shanik (The Bushwick Review #2) and Michele Rosenthal (The Bushwick Review #1, #2, and #3) are selling their wares at the Greenpointers Love Birds Valentine’s Market tomorrow. Saturday February 11th, 2012: food, gift & craft vendors will take over the Lutheran Church of the Messiah (129 Russell St) from noon-5pm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Here is...
Pictures from The Bushwick Review reading
The Bushwick Review Presents: Thee Keepers of Love was awesome. Thanks again to everyone who read their work, the many people who attended, and especially the Body Actualized Center for hosting. What a beautiful space run by kind people, support them in any way you can.
Here are some nice pictures taken by Angelina at the Body Actualized Center that really capture the atmosphere of the event....
January 2012
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The Bushwick Review Presents: Thee Keepers ov Love
Well, this should be a good time…
Several contributors to The Bushwick Review and their friends will be reading work at this event tomorrow. Many more Bushwick Review contributors will also be in attendance. Details on the flyer and the facebook event invite. Come check it out if you live in the area!
Lightness & Darkness: A Print Experiment
Please support my friend and Bushwick Review contributor Taleen Kalenderian’s project Lightness & Darkness. It’s a multidisciplinary print project in the form of a printed book which features poetry, prose, essays, photography, illustration, music and film. Here’s the Kickstarter campaign! Taleen is a creative force of nature and she deserves your support. She is also the...
December 2011
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The Bushwick Review in BlackBook Mag
The Bushwick Review got a mention in a guide to New York on BlackBook Mag. It is mentioned within the context of being sold at Desert Island Comics, which is one of the best places around. A truly great shop run by nice people, it is an honor to have The Bushwick Review on its shelves. Go there if you like comics or book or illustration or design or inspiring visual stimuli. Just go.
Michele Rosenthal's prints at BUST Holiday...
Michele Rosenthal’s comics are in all three issues of The Bushwick Review. If The Bushwick Review had such a thing as “core members”, she would be one of the core members, and hopefully her well-crafted work will be in every future issue. I am amazed at how well Michele can convey a complex facial emotion with a few simple lines. She’s also the type of friend you...
November 2011
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The Bushwick Review in The New York Times
I should have posted this a month ago, but The New York Times wrote an article about the resurgence of zines and they mentioned The Bushwick Review as one of the zines out there. I do not know Malaka Gharib, who is featured in the article, but I know she is a Syracuse University alumni, as are about half The Bushwick Review contributors. Syracuse University alum-DIY publishing revolution, baby!
September 2011
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Mikel Bisbee-Durlam's paintings
Mikel Bisbee-Durlam contributed an imagined story based on a found photo for The Bushwick Review #3. Mikel is a true artist who explores all different forms - writing, installation, performance, video, and music.
You can currently see his paintings at Cafe Orwell in Bushwick (247 Varet St, Brooklyn NY). They are wonderfully large in scale and ambition.
If you don’t live in the New York...
THE BUSHWICK REVIEW #3
Did you know The Bushwick Review #3 is out now? You can find out all about it on the current issue page. Since this blog is dedicated to focusing on contributors’ creative endeavors beyond The Bushwick Review, I am instead going to write about that. Here’s three contributors and what they made in issue #3 and what they make everywhere else.
Alexander Beninato wrote the short story...
DUM DUM Zine
The Bushwick Review has a West Coast soulmate and it’s DUM DUM Zine, captained by Taleen Kalenderian out in Los Angeles. DUM DUM Zine is a spankin’ new zine featuring hybrid forms of fiction, journalism, art, design, and any sort of transmedia story you can think of. It’s also a collective of people all over the country who collaborate on generating new forms of content. It exists...
Zachary Feldman reviews Foodswings
Zachary Feldman has contributed his witty haikus to all three issues of The Bushwick Review. In The Bushwick Review #2, he wrote sidesplitting haiku reviews of popular Bushwick restaurants. It was a subject near and dear to his heart and stomach, because Zach is a man who knows restaurants and knows food. He writes a late night dining column for Serious Eats, and recently I was lucky enough to go...
June 2011
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Bushwick Open Studios
All this week I’ve been saying in my head, Is it the weekend yet? Is it the weekend yet? Well, I say that every week actually, while I’m at the office, but more than usual this week, because this weekend is one of my favorites of the year. It’s Bushwick Open Studios.
I’ll be traveling around with a merry band of art appreciators, wandering around the beautiful...
Or Zubalsky's EP/online game
Or Zubalsky thinks in ways that others do not. For The Bushwick Review #2 he created “The Pigeon Cycle: A Study”, and it was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to see in The Bushwick Review, something that defied categorization. It answered questions like, “Where do pigeons come from? How come pigeons chicks are hardly seen?” It was a visually pleasing, illustrated...
May 2011
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Where to get The Bushwick Review #2
Unless it has completely sold out, The Bushwick Review #2 is still being sold in the following Manhattan/Brooklyn stores: Desert Island Comics, Academy Records Annex Williamsburg, St. Marks Bookshop, and Bluestockings. They are all good places.
You can also still order it directly online (go to current issue).
It is also being sold at Atomic Books in Baltimore. Never been to Baltimore, but...
April 2011
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Crawl Babies Album Release Show
Crawl Babies, one of the best bands in Brooklyn, is having a release show tonight for their new album Tangles. I am no music journalist, so I won’t attempt to describe what is so magical about their sound, but this is a band I would go see even if they were not my friends, and I have been listening to their album regularly on my daily commute. I am very glad they are my pals though. They...
Do-A-Thing-A-Thon
So the Do-A-Thing-A-Thon I posted about in the previous entry happened and it was awesome. New friends, new creations. Productivity and fun hanging out. Read Hugh McMullen’s excellent write-up of the entire weekend **HERE**, which has photos from the event, descriptions of the projects made, and links to the projects themselves. These projects include Paper Jams (a zine-y tumblr blog), a...
March 2011
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Goddamn Cobras / Do-A-Thing-A-Thon
Do you know about the Goddamn Cobras Collective? They are a Greenpoint-based art collective who have an admirable amount of energy and creativity. They make videos, movies, food, comics, plays. They hold art shows, perform in bands, and have a sweet website. They once had a tent in the backyard of their space that looked like this:
A couple weeks ago, some of The Bushwick Review peeps met some...
Paul Rome's new audio play
Paul Rome wrote the sharp and clever short story that opens The Bushwick Review #2 called “The Game”. He will be presenting his latest audio play tomorrow night at the Bushwick venue STOREFRONT. The play is called Calypso and it’s two parallel stories set to music by Roarke Menzies, who also reads one of the parts.
Here are more details:
Calypso an audio play words by Paul...
February 2011
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Release Party
There is going to be a release party for The Bushwick Review #2. It will also be a party for The Bushwick Review #3, which was made at the same time. It will actually be your only opportunity to get issue #3 before it is mass produced this summer.
It’s going to be a grand time. Many of the contributors are going to be there. Some of them will be meeting each other for the first time, others...
The Bushwick Review #2
Big news. The Bushwick Review #2 is done! You can get your own copy! Right now! All you need to do is go to the new site thebushwickreview.com.
The Bushwick Review has its own site now, but this tumblr is still going to stay, except maybe it will be used in more blog-like ways. Like instead of only updating every few months, perhaps it will be updated more regularly with the kind of things that...
September 2010
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The Bushwick Review received a very nice review from The L Magazine’s blog. Thank you, Mark Asch!
Read it here: http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/08/19/introducing-the-bushwick-review
As always, any questions or correspondence about the zine can be sent to bushwickreview@gmail.com
Most importantly, The Bushwick Review #2 is finally underway… shhh…
May 2010
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The Bushwick Review continues to be carried in fine stores and shops. It is being sold by Academy Records in Brooklyn and Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago. It has also just been re-ordered by Bluestockings Bookstore in the Lower East Side. All are great places.
It is also still available for online purchase via PayPal by clicking here.
January 2010
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The Bushwick Review is now being sold at these fine NYC bookshops: St. Mark’s Bookshop, Bluestockings, Desert Island Comics, and Spoonbill & Sugartown. All four are excellent shops and filled with book-loving people. Go visit and support them!
It is also available for online purchase via PayPal by clicking here.
December 2009
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THE BUSHWICK REVIEW is a collaborative literary and art zine that includes short stories, poetry, graphic novels, drawings, architecture, fashion, exhibit design, and recipes by nineteen individuals. It is a 64 page book that you can hold in your hands, carry in your bag, and read underneath the covers on winter evenings.
It is currently only available by contacting me in person, or by emailing...