You know what Williamsburg needs? More venues, bars, nightclubs...that sorta thing. Luckily, tonight the people who run Cake Shop in Manhattan are opening up their Brooklyn outpost in the neighborhood, called Bruar Falls. It's located in the old Lucky Cat space on Grand Street, and they currently have their listings on a MySpace page. Not only that, Supreme Trading (located at 218 N 8th Street) "has been renovated to become a 5,000 square foot area with Turbo sound, brand new wood floors, lighting, and also Green features," according to Brownstoner. The site also reports that a wall has been "blown out" to make the space more...spacious! A reopening is planned for April. more ›

Jen Dunlap, a painter, and Celia Rowlson-Hall, a writer-director-choreographer, decided to combine their many talents for a one-of-a-kind art show. Wanna Come to My Place? will saturate Supreme Trading with their art, performance and everyday life tomorrow night. They even traveled all the way to Coney Island to create a video invite. more ›

29-year-old artist Jacob Thomas has been putting pen to paper since he was a child, planting the seeds for what would become a full-time career. Hailing from Maryland, he did a four-year stint in the Coast Guard, where his creative talents didn't go unnoticed. He was asked to paint interiors of ships and design logos and other artwork for them, which in turn helped spur his own creative impulses. After several years in Pittsburgh, he moved to New York and developed his colorful, modern portraits which have since attracted the attention of major media companies. more ›

THEATER: Jude Narita's one-woman show, Walk the Mountain, is about the hellish effects of the Vietnam War. In the wrong hands, this might make for an unbearably ponderous evening, but the Times review puts us at ease: “In dramatizing unspeakably horrific events, must an artist end up brutalizing her audience as well? [Jude Narita] reminds us that it's possible for a performer to treat both her material and her audience with respect.” For Walk the Mountain, Ms. Narita interviewed Vietnamese and Cambodian women who survived the horror and traces the country’s history of resistance back to 39 A.D., when a Chinese invasion was thwarted. L.A. Weekly called it “haunting and heroic.” - John Del Signore more ›

THEATER: Pot-au-Noir (The Black Hole) is a retelling of the story of Cain & Abel "through the lens of the Great American Myth -- combining images of Hollywood Film Noir, the Gold Rush, the Dust Bowl, and Manifest Destiny with a story that is at the core of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and, therefore, America." Jake Hooker’s new production promises lyrical text, contemporary dance and live music to tell a story of lies, deceit, jealousy, lust, revenge and, finally, murder. - John Del Signore more ›

Professor Murder is: MIKE, TONY, JESSE and ANDY more ›

We mentioned the Billyburg Short Film Festival last week as something worth checking out. However, it ended up being cancelled due to the insane amounts of rain that poured down. So we wanted to draw extra special attention to it now, since it's back on...tonight! more ›

MUSIC: Party with pretty much the only guy you should be partying with on St. Pat's Day. No, not a leprechaun. Shane MacGowan [pictured] of the Pogues! After their show the singer will be heading over to Brooklyn, and likely getting more drunk than the rest of you. BP Fallon organized the event, he's played with the likes of John Lennon, so it's sure to be a legendary evening. more ›

Gothamist doesn't really like New Years Eve, it's overhyped and too expensive. So short of suggesting you just stay at home here's a little list of things you could do to ring in '05. more ›