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Game Play, NYC’s premiere videogame theater festival, opens next week

On July 9, the second annual Game Play festival begins at Brooklyn’s non-profit Brick Theater. For 2010, Game Play features Ovid by way of Grand Theft Auto, the theoretical physics of Game Boy, and hard dramatic readings of Donkey Kong. Here’s Game Play 2010’s mission statement and line-up of shows from the Brick’s press release:…

No Sleep ‘Til Fusion

With every thing Mark Suppes fixes, another thing breaks. We’re in his workshop, and he’s hunched over, tightening the bolts on a squat tubular machine. This is the fusion reactor Suppes built, and it’s not working. Suppes never slows down, moving from one problem to the next with an irrepressible smile. The workshop is a…

H.P. Lovecraft-inspired art show to open in Brooklyn next week

We love both H.P. Lovecraft and fun art openings. So when Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura told us he was curating a Cthulhu-centric art show in Brooklyn, we bellowed a hearty “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!” The show — A Love Craft: Art Inspired by Monsters, Madness and Mythos — opens at Observatory on…

Brooklyn’s Steampunk Bar Could Use More Clockwork

The Way Station, a newly opened bar in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, is billing itself as the world’s first steampunk bar and live music venue. But what exactly makes the bar steampunky? Owner Andy Heidel opened the Way Station — named for the novel by Clifford D. Simak — in September, although his failure thus far…

Brooklyn Couple Snags Nikon Traffic Cameras With Cherry Picker

Some people see those automated traffic light cameras and hate them for privacy reasons. Others, like this couple from Brooklyn we’re about to tell you about, take a look and see nothing but dollar signs. The thieving pair, Anthony Cintorrino and Tara Laburt, were the beneficiary of what those in the biz call an “inside…

Murakami Tells io9 About His Secret Love For J.J. Abrams

We had a chance to see the amazingly eye-blistering @ Murakami exhibit in Los Angeles a couple of months ago before they packed everything up and headed to Brooklyn. The same exhibit is now on display at the Brooklyn Museum until July 13th, and is definitely worth checking out. We nabbed a few moments with…

Apple’s scouting space for a new flagship store in—wait for it—Brooklyn. Yeah, it was only inevitable. [Racked]