DUMBO: October 2006 Archives

While wandering around DUMBO this weekend, we spotted this crazy veggie: broccoli romanesco. I'm certainly not the first person to have noticed and photographed its mesmerizing shape that's reminiscent of spiral seashells.

Almost forgot about the DUMBO Arts Fest (the 10th annual, at that). It runs October 13 through 15 and includes gallery shows, exhibits, outdoor skits and performance art, sculpture, open studios--pretty much anything that has to do with art and is in/near/or around DUMBO. Per usual, Halcyon is getting in on the action with DJs all weekend long.

There's a new space in Dumbo called powerHouse Arena.  It has something to do with a a bookstore called powerHouse Books. They publish art books and a magazine. The new space will have music, art, movies and books...I think. See the thing is, this powerHouse conglomerate sounds like it does many things well. Except websites, apparently, becuase it's really hard to find any information on the one they have. In any case, I'm almost positive they're showing two cool movies this weekend, Hip Hop: By All Means Necessary and Wild Style. I think this has something to do with VH1's "Hip Hop Honors" week, because, you know, VH1 is just so totally hip hop.