Category: Entertainment

The Brooklyn Book Festival. Photo by Jasmina Tomic The Brooklyn Book Festival and Brooklyn Literary Council recently revealed the expansive list of writers participating in this year’s Festival Day and Literary Marketplace (Sunday, September 29), Children’s Day (Saturday, September 28), and Virtual Festival Day (Sunday, September 22). The Festival additionally announced renowned cartoonist Roz Chast as…

MARINE PARK  — The Regina Opera Company recently presented approximately 300 Brooklyn residents with another one of its free, two-hour outdoor concerts, highlighting popular operatic and instrumental selections.  The Marine Park concert on July 10 featured sopranos Nicole Magallón and Sabrina Palladino;  mezzo-soprano Anna Viemeister; tenor Paolo Buffagni; baritone Eliam Ramos Fuentes;  violinist Mikhail Parkhomovsky;…

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Art is alive and well at the Brooklyn Made Store in City Point — specifically the art of photography. Photo: Reuben Radding The newly-opened business hosted a reception on the evening of June 11 for an exhibition in their Corner Gallery entitled “They’re There.” It features six photographers who work in and…

Instant film photographer Tom Robinson founded “Through the Lens and Lead,” a project consisting of Polaroid portraits paired with pencil drawings. In collaboration with Bob Greco and Dan Hureira, the installation opened in the Brooklyn Film Camera (BFC) gallery on Friday, July 5, and will be on view for the month. “‘Lens and Lead’ was…

Jackie Sibblies Drury is fresh off writing Illinoise, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical revue inspired by Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois. The playwright, a Brooklyn resident for over a decade, wrote the musical with choreographer Justin Peck. “I’m so proud of this project and deeply grateful to every single person that has made it, makes…

The signing of the Declaration of independence by John Trumbull. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Wikimedia Commons License In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country’s first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by…

In collaboration with KEYED UP! and Jazz Generation, Therapy Wine Bar 2.0 hosts the Organ Monk Jam every other Wednesday night, inviting musicians of all levels to join and contribute to the local music scene. Under the leadership of Gregory Lewis, a musician known for reinterpreting Thelonious Monk’s works on the Hammond organ, the group…

Revelers move along Fifth Avenue during the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its exuberant grand finale on Sunday, bringing rainbow-laden revelers to the streets for marquee parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere across the globe. The wide-ranging festivities functioned…

Nicole Motter, sound bath practitioner and wellness advocate, is the magical force behind Brooklyn Heights’ fairy doors. Photo: Courtesy of Nicole Motter BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The mysterious personality behind the colorful little fairy doors that have been popping up on trees in Brooklyn Heights has stepped out of the shadows. The doors (said by experts…

Teddy Wayne is an award-winning author and Cobble Hill resident who recently published “The Winner.” The novel, which is being developed into a film, is about Connor — a tennis coach in Cape Cod — and the moral quandaries he encounters from pandering to the rich.  “I had, from the very inception, the idea that…