Category: Entertainment

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Tuesday may have been Brooklyn’s snowiest day in two years, but it was a case of nor’easter be damned for the launch of best-selling author Eric Klinenberg’s highly anticipated nonfiction book “2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.” Indeed, it was standing room only in the Great Hall at…

Jennifer Lopez arrives at the premiere of “This Is Me… Now: A Love Story” on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala, the magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed Thursday.…

A secret admirer drew this big pink heart (in chalk) on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle A secret admirer drew a big pink heart on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade a day or two before Tuesday’s snow storm. The Brooklyn Eagle is dedicating the heart on…

PARK SLOPE — Duke Ellington and Irving Mills proclaimed back in 1931 that “It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing).” When the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music wanted to announce the annual gala of their Community Orchestra, they used one word in the flier: SWING. And, on Feb. 3, at St. Saviour…

PARK SLOPE — He’s been all around the world, sold hundreds of thousands of records, and is regarded by many as somewhat of an icon in the punk rock and hardcore music scenes. But musician Walter Schreifels, best known for his pioneering post-hardcore act Quicksand in the 1990’s, and tenure in legendary hardcore bands Gorilla…

Isabel Hagen’s blonde hair was pulled back. She wore a high-neck black sweater with a navy overshirt. It was a rainy Sunday night, and three comedians had opened for the Brooklynite at St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Hagen ate dinner in the back while T.J. Miller performed, and later hovered in the corner as she waited…

The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership rang in the Lunar New Year with the Choy Lay Fut Dance Team performing thrilling lion dancing at Albee Square on Saturday, Feb. 3. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership rang in the Lunar New Year at Albee Square on Saturday with music, dragon-themed activities…

Jubilee Jammers’ band leader Beverly Closs, left, strums the banjolele at a recent rehearsal. (She plays at least eight instruments.) To the right is Nina Craig. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — One ukulele is all you need to cheer the heart and lift spirits. Now multiply that by ten, and you have…