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Williamsburg 30-Second Mystery Theatre: Mystery of the Missing Sternberg Park B-Boys 2/6

Claudia Cardinale takes the Flushing Avenue bus from Williamsburg to the AfroPunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park in order to begin her investigation into the Twinketoes Twins' disappearance.

Sunday in Fort Greene: The Tenth Annual AfroPunk Fest at Commodore Barry Park

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Sunday in Fort Greene: The Ninth Annual AfroPunk Fest at Commodore Barry Park

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Saturday in Fort Greene: The Ninth Annual AfroPunk Fest in Commodore Barry Park

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This weekend, the ninth annual Afropunk Festival again took over Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn to showcase dozens of artists of color, spread across genres from thrash hardcore to ultra-current hip-hop, from New Orleans bounce to good time soul review. As always, from entry to exit, it's about the best-run festival the city has to offer: pleasant, on-time, easy to move around within. You can easily catch at least a portion of every artists' set, while still having time to grab a bite or a beer, participate in some sort of extreme sport, or just people-watch at one of the most vibrant fashion weekends of the year. . . A big music event in Brooklyn where no one played a cheesy hits medley! Where the performances didn't leave you feeling kind of gross and sad and too old to be witnessing them! Imagine...

- Jeff Klingman at The L Magazine

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Sunday Afternoon in Fort Greene/Brooklyn Navy Yard: The 2012 Afropunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park

We were able to get to at least a few hours of the second day of the wonderful Afropunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park.

Joining the exuberant audiences for some terrific bands who were not headliners, we got to see exciting performances by Phony Ppl,

Flatbush Zombies

and the adorable Gordon Voidwell.

We had another great time at the Afropunk Festival,

which has included a lot of fun and even some transcendent moments sharing the music as well as all the other things to do and see.

It was also really nice in these times to see so many people just totally enjoying themselves.

That means a lot.

Really.

Last year so many people were disappointed when Hurricane Irene forced the cancellation of the 2011 Afropunk Festival. (This year's tropical storm is disrupting only the less important but much more evil Republican National Convention.) We are very grateful indeed that the weather was great for this year's Afropunk fest, and even more grateful we got to spend time there.

Saturday in Fort Greene/Brooklyn Navy Yard: The 2012 Afropunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park

We were lucky enough to spend most of the afternoon and evening at the 2012 Afropunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park and we saw so many amazing shows

- from the Skins and the Joe Jordan Experiment (his mom is a great drummer) and Ninjasonik early this afteroon to the Memorials and Das Racist and Erykah Badu with the Cannabinoids and surprise, Yaslin Bey (Mos Def), tonight - and other stuff,

watched the creation of street art and the daredevils at the skate park, hung out with incredibly cool people, had some really good snacks at the food trucks,

and generally such a terrific time on our last real summer weekend before going back to work that we don't know whether to scream or to eat a banana.