Last Friday, the Modest Mouse show at E. River Park was cancelled due to rain. Bummer. But, OSA has been working behind the scenes to come up with a backup plan. Hundreds of thousands of documents regarding these plans have just been released by Wikileaks. Below is an exerpt from OSA.

From Open Space Alliance

Yes!  Modest Mouse just confirmed that they will join us again on September 14th.  If you had tickets to Friday’s show, you are welcome to tickets for the September 14th show, or a refund.

If you are unable to attend the rescheduled date, please contact Ticketmaster before August 27th at 5pm for the refund.
On August 29th, Ticketmaster will reissue all tickets purchased online, and by phone, and send new tickets via the original method of delivery.  Tickets purchased in person at the Nokia Theatre Times Square box office and other official outlets can be exchanged in person for the rescheduled show.

As for drink tickets, you may use them at the upcoming MM show, or mail in for a refund:

Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn
c/o Brooklyn Brewery
79 North 11th St.
Brooklyn NY 11211

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to get the show rescheduled.  And many thanks to Modest Mouse!!!

We’re pouring beer at the Williamsburg Waterfront concerts all summer long. On Friday, July 2nd Faith No More will play their first East Coast show in a long, long time. Also, we got our mitts on some VIP tickets.

Email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “FNM Part 1″ in the subject line for your chance to win a pair to Friday’s 5pm show.

Listen, Band of Horses and Grizzly Bear and a woman are playing a concert in East River Park which is right around the corner from the brewery. It’s the first show of many that will occur during the warm months of the year that we refer to as SUMMER. And Brooklyn Brewery will be pouring beer at all of the shows during the SUMMER. We’ ve also been given tickets to these SUMMER shows that we can do whatever we want with. Right now we want to give some of them to you, dear reader. SUMMER. Email info@brooklynbrewery.com right now with “SUMMER” in the subject line for your chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to Sunday’s SUMMER show.

Do it.

For years now Brooklyn Brewery has been selling Lager in Israel and Turkey. Even before that, though, the story of Brooklyn Brewery really began in the Middle East, when founder Steve Hindy first picked up home brewing as a foreign correspondent for the AP. The Atlantic now reports that Steve’s success  story of crafting good beer has inspired the Lebanese microbrewery 961.

From TheAtlantic.com

“One of the books (Mazen) Hajjar read, in the summer of 2006, was Beer School, an autobiography by Steve Hindy, the co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. In the early 1980s, Hindy was a correspondent for the AP in Beirut, covering the civil war in Lebanon. (He later moved to Cairo, where he first encountered homebrewing, before graduating to the real thing back in New York.) More than anything, it was Hindy’s improbable tale, Hajjar says, that convinced him to try his hand at a homebrew. When he went to the States for the beer festival, Hajjar also scheduled a stop in Brooklyn, where he met his unwitting mentor.”

Read the whole story here.

We’re happy as clams to invite you to this month’s edition of Local X Local, starring Vivian Girls!
From Brooklyn Bowl

SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH

BROOKLYN BREWERY PRESENTS

// LOCAL X LOCAL //

VIVIAN GIRLS

GERMAN MEASLES

Doors 12:00pm :: Show 7:00pm :: 21+

FREE

Celebrating The Best In Locally Brewed Music, Arts, Media… And Beer!Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set have done with female vocalists.

RSVP on FACEBOOK FOR $3 BROOKLYN BREWERY BEER SPECIAL 7-9PM!

THIS MONTH’S LOCAL FOOD SPECIAL:

We’ll be serving Fish Tacos with Local Cod, red cabbage, pickled peppers and roasted tomato salsa, served on local tortillas made by the famous Tortilleria Mexicana los Hermanos in Bushwick

LOCAL LOUNGE FEATURING

MAST BROTHER CHOCOLATE

With New York’s only bean to bar chocolate maker from Williamsburg, Mast Brothers Chocolate, serving the freshest and tastiest in the devil’s food

AD HOC ART

Live screen printing by Ad Hoc Arts/Peripheral Media Projects

It was great to catch up with old friend, Austin AV Club Editor Sean O’Neal down at the extravaganza that is SxSW. Click here for his recap of our music, beer, coffee and pancake filled day party at The Mohawk.

Big news! Brooklyn Brewery  is co-hosting “Computer Blip Bloop Bullshit!” at Club DeVille in Austin along with our pals Found Footage Festival and Busted Tees. FFF is celebrating the success of the new website and tour. Brooklyn Brewery is celebrating its now-availability in Austin. And Busted Tees, another year as the tits of funny T-shirts.

This is an official SXSW Interactive party, but good news: NO badges or wristbands required. So yeah. Come and bring your friends. Monday night, March 15. It’s a free party. Everyone is invited, but you must be 21+ to attend.

To entertain you:

The Black And White Years (rock)

The Laughing (rock)

Mike & The Moonpies (honky-tonk).

Found Footage Fest VHS Favorites

DJ Jester The Filipino Fist

To wet your whistle: Brooklyn Brewery beer, of course.

Sponsored by the Found Footage Festival, Busted Tees, Brooklyn Brewery, A.V. Club, Maria the Date Coach, and The Onion.

From The AV Club Austin

Every day, the human race places more of its trust in computers, and where exactly does that get us? Identity theft, fapping creeps behind every turn of the Chatroulette wheel, and a tangle of government-sponsored wires waiting for the day they can finally unleash the nuclear weapons. Before artificial intelligence can revolt, the VHS revivalists of the Found Footage Film Festival fire a shot at their would-be cybernetic oppressors, hosting a pre-SXSW party with the analog-friendly likes of synth-heads The Black And White Years, red-blooded honky-tonkers Mike And The Moonpies, and The Laughing, whose techno-tribalist triumph Fever has enough future-fret to kill all your iLust. DJ Jester The Filipino Fist makes musical juxtapositions the old fashioned way—on turntables—completing the sense that neither computers nor the Internet have done a lick of good for the evening’s acts. To win tickets to this event, e-mailrsvpaustin@theonion.com.

Sure we’ll be working, pouring beer for all you silly-looking music enthusiasts, but we’re still stoked.

From The New York Times

The first summer concert at the Williamsburg waterfront this season will be epic, in at least one sense of the word: the reunited Faith No More will perform its first East Coast show in more than a decade on July 5 at North Eighth Street and Kent Avenue on the East River in Brooklyn, the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn said on Wednesday.

Faith No More, the San Francisco rock band whose hits included “Epic” and “A Small Victory,” broke up in the late 1990s but regrouped last year. In a statement, the band said it hoped “the experience of playing together again will yield results erratic and unpredictable enough to live up to the legacy of Faith No More.” (And yes, the front man Mike Patton is slated to be there.)

Tickets for the concert, which is being held as a benefit for the Open Space Alliance, will go on sale at noon on March 19 at ticketmaster.com and the Nokia Theater Times Square box office.

We’re teaming up with our friends next door at Brooklyn Bowl to put on an all-Brooklyn extravaganza of sorts.

This Sunday, February 21st marks the first Local X Local, a monthly event presented by us & Brooklyn Bowl which celebrates Brooklyn’s local art & music community. This edition of Local X Local features The Phenomenal Handclap Band. The Brewery & The Bowl invite you to a special night of music, art, and food.

7pm – 10pm :: $2 Brewery Draft Special with RSVP on Facebook here :: http://bit.ly/BBLxL1
Brooklyn’s finest graphic design and live t-shirt printing team, Peripheral Media Projects, will be on-hand screening and selling custom shirts. Check them out here: www.peripheralmediaprojects.com

Join Greenhorn’s director Severine v T Fleming + Greenpoint’s own farmer Annie Novak of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm to plot, plan+ prepare for your summer garden on rooftop, fire escape, backyard or scrap of lot. They’ll bring seed catalogs, minipaks, garden planning materials and supplies– and will be available for free consultations and pep talks. Get your green on!

Information on greenhorns www.thegreenhorns.net/ www.thegreenhorns.wordpress.com Info on food education with growing chefs www.GrowingChefs.org