The Crowds for Black Friday

Today is the only day of the year when frugal travelers can enjoy shopping without the fear of not being able to go on their next adventure. All around the United States, stores are having immense discounts on their inventory. Welcome to Black Friday 2009.

And this year something different is happening… stores are extending their sales to their online shopping clientele. Need a new sleeping bag? Check out Amazon.com. Are you in the mood for a holiday dress? Go to H&M.

Go ahead, get pushed around my obnoxious crowds. It’s well worth the experience.

Click Here to take a look at some of the participating stores.

Come join us tonight at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn to celebrate Gumbo, Dumbo’s first gay party!

GUMBO
TONIGHT – Thursday November 5
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
8PM – 1AM

Located at the first stop in Brooklyn, GUMBO is DUMBO’s first gay party! The offbeat Galapagos Art Space welcomes all guys and girls for this fun, anti-scene, night out. “Manhattanites” welcome.

Hosted by Ben Harvey, Matthew Kelleher & Andrew Urankar
Music by: DJ Josh Sparber (Good Times @ Eastern Bloc)

*2-4-1 drinks from 8pm-9pm.
*Free haircuts by the Galapagos resident stylist

If you can’t make it, be sure to check back to see photos and read about our review.

Morgane Veronique Richardson, Writer/Editor

Stop wondering what you will be doing this weekend (September 25 – September 27th 2009) and catch the F train or A/C train down to DUMBO for the DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival.

Now in its 13th year, the DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival is a quirky gathering of young artists, their work and their admirers in the latest hipster hub of Downtown Brooklyn.

Enjoy palpable art pieces emerging from wondrous nooks and crannies. “Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression,” writes The Dumbo Arts Center.

Just to give you a taste, last years festival was comprised of video projections of monkeys onto the Manhattan bridge and surrounding buildings, pretentious art galleries showcasing phenomenal photographs, man-made (and hilarious) interactive environments and a machine game containing plastic baby fetus’

With the increase of visitors and inhabitants to the area (also known as gentrification) the streets are bound to come alive this year.

Make sure to stop by DAC Gallery where artists are busily working on a massive indoor installation of red paper mache columns and 68 Jay St. bar where two young men where feverishly drawing two-headed monsters on the walls with chalk.

Morgane Veronique Richardson, Writer/Editor