Category: Entertainment
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BWAC in Red Hook introduces new exhibits for fall season
Homage to Afro-Caribbean music and folkways from the “Raices” exhibit. Photo courtesy of BWAC RED HOOK — The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is bringing new seasonal exhibits to celebrate Hispanic culture, as well as other art at 481 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook on weekends until Nov. 19. In “Amor Eterno,” the art exhibit…
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Brooklyn Public Library announces 2023 Book Prize winners
The Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. Wikimedia photo by Ajay Suresh Brooklyn Public Library announced the winners of the ninth annual Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize on Monday, awarding Lamya H the nonfiction prize for “Hijab Butch Blues” and Catherine Lacey the fiction prize for “Biography of X.” The…
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Ballerina Kate Reyes to return Nov. 9 as lead dancer in ‘Orphan Train’
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — When ballerina Kate Reyes takes the stage for the performance of Orphan Train at The Theater at City Tech on Nov. 9, presented by Brooklyn’s own Covenant Ballet Theatre (CBT), she will be a key element in telling the gripping story on which the ballet is based. Kate Reyes.Photo: Jaime Gamez An…
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A dancer’s journey comes full circle: Noted ballerina Kate Reyes, who attended Brooklyn’s Covenant Ballet as a child, will return as one of the lead dancers in Orphan Train Nov. 9
JAY STREET — When ballerina Kate Reyes takes the stage for the performance of Orphan Train at The Theater at City Tech on Nov. 9, presented by Brooklyn’s own Covenant Ballet Theatre (CBT), she will be a key element in telling the gripping story on which the ballet is based. Kate Reyes.Photo: Jaime Gamez An…
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Garden Place: Brooklyn’s best block for Halloween trick-or-treating
Beautiful mayhem on Garden Place as the kids just kept coming. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle EDITOR’S NOTE: Garden Place, a tiny little corner of Brooklyn Heights, hardly ever gets news coverage, because, quite frankly, it’s a quiet place — normally. But every Halloween this one-block street somehow becomes a destination for trick-or-treaters from every…
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Halloween came early to Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights
These girls had a hard time deciding which pumpkin they liked best at Saturday’s Open Streets event on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A pumpkin patch, spooky playhouses, dance parties, craft demonstrations, portraits, Double Dutch, music and more delighted visitors to Montague Street’s “SPOOK-tacular” Open Streets celebration…
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SEE IT: Cute photos from Brooklyn Heights’ Halloween parade
Off to see the wizard at Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2023 Halloween Parade. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Hundreds of families made their way to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on Saturday morning for a time-honored neighborhood favorite, the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2023 Halloween Parade. It seemed like the superheroes were stronger, the princesses…
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New book by retired Brooklyn College prof is violent true story: Italian cops vs. mafia
The Italian Squad. The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia. Photo: NYU Press Paul Moses’ gripping new book tells a story that begins in Sicily on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators…
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Halloween in Brooklyn: Top events this weekend
Halloween on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Photo: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle HALLOWEEN IN BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: PROMENADE PARADE AND SPOOKY FUN ON MONTAGUE STREET BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — COME GOBLINS AND GHOSTIES — The Brooklyn Heights Association will be hosting its annual Halloween Parade on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 11a.m. Always a fun and photo-friendly event, families will…
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Finding Harmony in Dystopia
Harmony and I are sitting in a concrete backyard. We crawled through the other side of a locker at a pest control store to get here. We’re at The Shop: my friends Matt Weinberger and Avery Hunsberger’s new studio. Outside, the storefront sells wares for Avery’s Pest Control company. If you shimmy through a storage…