Category: Entertainment
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Jane Goodall receives standing ovation at Brooklyn Museum
Dr. Jane Goodall has a moment of contemplation at the Night of Hope in Action at the Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Beth Eisgrau-Heller for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Dr. Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, conservationist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, spoke before a sold-out house of ardent…
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Brooklyn Heights Library unveils new illuminated gravity-defying sculpture
“Something Borrowed, Something Blue” by Brooklyn-based artist Jean Shin. Photo: Gregg Richards BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The impressive new Brooklyn Heights branch of BPL has recently managed to merge memorable sculpture with borough-wide reading habits and a piece of Brooklyn’s history. Each leaf of a sculpture they described as “gravity-defying” contains data on each of the…
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Rosen’s Review: Shakespeare is alive at Casa Clara
Elliot Johnson plays Othello in The New Place Players’ production at Casa Clara Photo: Carol Rosegg Live chamber music, full Renaissance costumes and an intimate theater that brings the play, quite literally, right into your lap. What more could you ask for? The New Place Players have a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience being offered right now…
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Met Opera marks 1st year of Ukraine war with concert
This photo provided by Metropolitan Opera, Met music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, soprano Golda Schultz, tenor Dmytro Popov, and bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi in the National Anthem of Ukraine during “For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope” on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 in New York. Evan Zimmerman/Metropolitan Opera via AP Emily D’Angelo…
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HarperCollins union approves contract, ends 3-month strike
Attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York on May 28, 2015. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File Striking union members at HarperCollins Publishers have approved a tentative agreement reached last week and will return to work Tuesday, ending a walkout that lasted more than three months and became the center of an ongoing debate…
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Miracle of Movement: Mark Morris Dance combats the effects of Parkinson’s
PD Participant. Photo: Amber Star Merkens Patients with Parkinson’s are combating their disease with dance, thanks to weekly free Dance for PD classes with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn. Research confirms that dance is highly beneficial for people suffering from Parkinson’s disease by slowing its progression. At the Mark Morris Dance Center, weekly…
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HarperCollins and striking union reach tentative agreement
Attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York on May 28, 2015. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing around 250 striking employees reached a tentative agreement providing increases to entry level salaries. If union members ratify the contract, it will run through the end of 2025 and…
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Internationally-celebrated OneMusic project to perform in Brooklyn Heights
William H. Weigel, a distinguished attorney and a member of the Wednesday Music Club. Photo: William H. Weigel BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Part of the ‘secret sauce’ that makes this historic neighborhood unique in New York is a collection of Victorian-era clubs. Unlike the powerful old-boy clubs based in Manhattan, with hugely valuable physical plants and…
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At last: Streisand memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ coming Nov. 7
Barbra Streisand. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File Barbra Streisand’s very long and very long-awaited memoir, a project she has talked about for years, is coming out this fall. Viking, a Penguin Random House imprint, will release “My Name is Barbra” on Nov. 7. Her memoir, fitting for a superstar of the grandest ambitions, is listed at…