Author Archives: larken

Called Professor Ellen Turkel today who is the professor for City College of San Diego’s Bike Riding Class.  I invited her to the Bikes Del Pueblo Pot Luck Meeting at 7pm at Snowdrop tomorrow (for address email me: Larken@BandofBicycles.com)  Turns out she is from the Bronx (of course) and co-facilitates an innovative month long summer [...]

THE WILD FINISH story

On a snowy Easter Sunday, Monica embarked on a bicycle journey across the vodka-soaked roads of Poland in search of the man who haunts her–a man of power, genius, fame and violence–her grandfather. Along her path, she squats and pogos with anarchist punks in old factories, barely escapes a knifing by Neo-Nazis, [...]

I sauntered around the 3rd Ward Handmade Holiday Craft Fair munching handmade Carmel Corn with honeycomb crumbs and dark chocolate swirls from Liddabit and discovering impressive custom and up-cycled bicycle glamour better than I saw in Copenhagen during the climate conference and at the Mission Bicycle Fashion Show in San Fransisco.
It is evident when designers are [...]

This was sent to me by DataLore Collective Member, Alyssa Benson, and it looks really cool.
o The Limit
Presented by the DataLore Collective and Chez Bushwick
In conjunction with Arts in Bushwick BETA Spaces 2010
November 14, 2010
5pm – 7pm
Chez Bushwick – 304 Boerum St. Buzzer #11, Brooklyn, NY 11206
L Train to Morgan Ave, FREE
An interactive multimedia experience [...]

The croon and blow Thursday night at Park Side Lounge on the Lower East Side explained why Baby Willis has been willingly taken hostage. They told us they were headed to NOLA for Halloween. Baby doesn’t know is she wants to escape the muse of the 8 piece street jazz succulent vibe of Ruby Ruby [...]

Our friend, the sign painter, Heidi whirled through town and had a pleasure filled love affair with Golda while they stick and poked and created the hand painted sets for Agent Special K’s brainchild, Spectacular of Spectacular.
Golda put the drop shadows and gold letters to use for Justice as she painted, “It Could Have Been [...]

Uh-Huh….The House of YES
………………………….now has a bike rack!
HOUSE OF YES BIKE RACK
Produced by:
Olivia: the best grrl welder this side of bushwick and rigger on the Horror Show which is featured in this week’s Huffington Post as one of the best Halloween Events in NYC,
Brett: the very male lead in The Horror Show [...]

“At 1:45 p.m., the pack departed 3rd Ward on Morgan Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Olivia Katz, 23, a dreadlocked member of the collective Band of Bicycles who was riding a tall bike wrapped in lace, tossed her first roll right into the hand of a man outside a muffler shop on Johnson Avenue.”
The adorable Vanessa [...]