Posted on October 28, 2011 by missalix
The 26th of October was my birthday, and I wanted to get out of the house and do something fun since I had the day off. A few friends had been to Dead Horse Bay the weekend before and I kept that in mind to be my next adventure. I was getting ready to go [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2011 by missalix
Last Saturday was the Crest Hardware Fest, where bands played and art with the general theme of hardware and tools were presented by many well known and local artists. While I wasn’t able to make it to the actual festival, Crest Hardware on Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn still has all of the art, installations and [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2011 by missalix
Continuing my streak of seeing entertaining shows, I was at Brooklyn Bowl yet again last night to see the Brooklyn Air Guitar Championships for 2011! I couldn’t make it the night before in Manhattan because I was seeing Sleep No More, so I’m glad I was able to make it to this one. Plus, two [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2011 by missalix
The other night I saw Notorious MSG, “The Original Chinatown Bad Boys” for the first time. I heard of them when they played a show with Peelander-Z in NY that I wasn’t able to attend, but a friend who was there said they were really fun and I should see them if I get a [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2011 by missalix
Bushwick Open Studios 2011 at Factory Fresh This past Saturday I walked not too far from my apartment to check out some of the open studios in my neighborhood of Brooklyn during Bushwick Open Studios 2011. I let my friend Oriana show me around since I was feeling lazy and she already had a map [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2011 by missalix
From Seville we took a bus to our last destination: Lisbon, Portugal. Luckily our bus experience was a thousand times better than when we went overnight from Madrid to Gibraltar, allowing Colin to rest a bit since he was coming down with a cold. Arriving at the bus terminal was a little sketchy (as most [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2011 by missalix
Get ready for a huge photo post! Everyone we spoke to said Seville was really nice, though I wasn’t really that excited to visit Seville compared to the other cities we were visiting since I thought it would be a boring city with not much to do, but it was so beautiful and picturesque! I [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2011 by missalix
We took an overnight bus from Madrid to La Linea, a town that borders the peninsula of Gibraltar. While Gibraltar is technically attached to Spain, it’s actually a British overseas territory, even going as far as using pounds instead of Euros! Our bus trip was 9 hours of awfulness – the bus smelled, there was [...]
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