Category: Entertainment
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Independent bookselling expanded again in 2022, with new and diverse stores opening nationwide
Owners Jessica Callahan, from left, Austin Carter, and Julie Ross pose at Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, Pa., on Sunday, May 21, 2023. The independent bookselling community continues to grow, with membership in the American Booksellers Association reaching its highest levels in more than 20 years. Callahan, Carter and Ross opened their store last year.…
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Salman Rushdie attends PEN America gala, first in-person appearance since stabbing
Author Salman Rushdie attends the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala Thursday, May 18, 2023, in New York. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II Salman Rushdie has made his first in-person public appearance since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized nine months ago. The author was in attendance Thursday night for the annual gala of PEN America, the literary and free…
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Saint Ann’s Puppet Parade 2023 ushers in spring for Brooklyn Heights
Saint Ann’s School students parade up Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights during the annual Puppet Parade. Eagle photo by Mary Frost BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The 36th annual Saint Ann’s Puppet Parade, a rite of spring in Brooklyn Heights, made its merry way down Pierrepont and Montague streets and along the Promenade on Monday. The parade,…
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Brooklyn’s Montague Street kicks off Open Streets with exuberant party
Kids and adults alike danced in the street as the Hungry March Band lit up Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights this past Saturday, May 6. Eagle photo by Mary Frost BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The blazingly exuberant Hungry March Band kicked off Montague Street’s first Open Streets of the summer season on Saturday. The madcap marching…
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Brooklyn’s Covenant Ballet Theatre celebrates 35th with a ‘Cocktail Caper’
Marla Hirokawa, Artistic Director and Founder. Photo: Jaime Gamez. GRAVESEND — Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn (CBT), a cultural treasure located on Avenue U, created a “moving feast” to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Supporters, board members and faculty members gathered for the company’s first Cocktail Caper, a celebratory evening of “dance, drinks, and high jinks,”…
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Work of world-famous botanical illustrator Francesca Anderson now part of art collection at Carnegie Mellon’s Hunt Institute
Aconitum napellus [Aconitum napellus Thunberg, Ranunculaceae], pen-and-ink on paper by Francesca Anderson, 1993, 73.7 x 58.7 cm, HI Art accession no. 8579.07, courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Francesca Anderson. Click photo for Anderson’s website. Francesca Anderson spent most of her productive life as a botanical illustrator while she…
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Man agrees to plead guilty in Basquiat artwork fraud scheme
The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is seen at the Orlando Museum of Art on June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The…
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Riding the rails: an interview with Tyne Rafaeli on directing a new play “The Coast Starlight”
Tyne Rafaeli is a name I’d been encountering a lot in New York theater circles for the past few years. She is an Anglo-American director whose credits include Sylvia Khoury’s “Selling Kabul,” Ming Peiffer’s “Usual Girls,” Craig Lucas’ “I Was Most Alive with You,” Martyna Majok’s “Ironbound” and Anna Ziegler’s “Actually.” In addition, her work…
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Strangers on a train: an interview with playwright Keith Bunin
Playwright Keith Bunin. Photo: T. Charles Erickson. Everybody knows train travel isn’t what it used to be. Amtrak is hardly the Orient Express. Still trains exert a powerful hold on our imaginations. And in our celluloid fantasies: “Twentieth Century,” “The Lady Vanishes,” “Double Indemnity,” “North by Northwest,” “Silver Streak.” On stage it’s rarer to find…
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Two key creators of Lincoln Center production of ‘The Coast Starlight’ call Brooklyn Heights home
Poster for “The Coast Starlight,” playing at Lincoln Center until April 16. Keith Bunin, playwright. Keith Bunin is also author of the plays “The Busy World is Hushed,” “The Credeaux Canvas,” “The World Over,” all of which premiered at Playwrights Horizons. He was also a writer for the HBO tv series “In Treament.” BROOKLYN HEIGHTS…