Category: Entertainment
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What they’re saying: live arts in Brooklyn this week, March 12
“Often parodied on TikTok for their puzzling buying policies compared to the fast fashion among the racks, shopping here is a bit of a your-results-may-vary exercise, but it’s definitely good to pay it a visit, especially for recognizable brands and reasonable prices.” – Erin Conlon, Greenpointers Sky’s The Limit: Music is My Resistance @ The…
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Brooklyn’s many boat clubs prep for new season
The Early Days Miramar was founded in 1932 when an ardent group of young men began what they called the Miramar Boat and Canoe Club on the north shore of Sheepshead Bay. In 1944, Miramar was incorporated and reorganized as a cooperative yacht club, taking the name Miramar Yacht Club. By then, the club had…
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Writing over the speed limit
Now No, 33, is perched at the dining room table in her Crown Heights apartment. She looks cozy in a t-shirt, leggings and Uggs, her curls half-up, half-down. She has tiny silver ear piercings, like a constellation. No shares this fourth-story walkup with her partner Cole Nielsen, 42, her three step-kids and her overexcitable dog,…
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What they’re saying about: live arts in Brooklyn this week: March 5
“Eastville was established in Manhattan in 2008, and after 10 wonderful years… it was time to upgrade their location and move to the artistically creative borough of Brooklyn. They’re an intimate 120 seat comedy club located right by the Barclays Center, and downtown Brooklyn’s nightlife district.” – New York Theatre Guide “Mike Toohey’s comedy combines…
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Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates createimpressive illustrated book telling storyof transformative waterfront park
Reclaimed from 1.3 miles of New York’s post-industrial waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park sets a benchmark for waterfront projects globally and is a place for escape, recreation, and immersion in the natural world. This book is an important account of the transformation of deserted parking lots and crumbling piers into a living ecosystem, and a project…
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What they’re saying: live arts in Brooklyn this week, February 27
The Hunt @ St. Ann’s WarehouseTheatreSt. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 45 Water Street, DumboPerformances now through March 24 Quickly gaining buzz throughout the city, this adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s 2013 film follows the story of a quiet teacher, played by Tobias Menzies, wrongfully accused of molesting several of his students. This British production directed…
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TONESA WELCH BLAST STARZ SERIES BMF OVER FALSE PORTRAYAL AND DEPICTION AS A PREDATOR
ROLLING OUT | BXC EXCLUSIVE Speaking exclusively to Rolling Out and BIPOC media via BIPOCXChange.com, executive producers of the NAACP Image Awards’ nominated television movie, First Lady Of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story, Judge Greg Mathis and Welch talk about telling her true story, and showing both the glamorous rise and the tragic fall associated…
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Wildly popular evening of dance with music of Burt Bacharach sets NY debut in Brooklyn at BAM
Mark Morris.Photo: Beowulf Sheehan The internationally acclaimed Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) has inspired critics and audiences throughout its 40-year history. Founded in New York in 1980 by artistic director and choreographer Mark Morris, the company has been called “the preeminent modern dance organization of our time” (Yo-Yo Ma), receiving “highest praise for their technical…
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St. Ann’s Warehouse offers U.S. premiere, “The Hunt” featuring Tobias Menzies
“I never approach an adaptation from one medium without first being sure I can find a new form on the stage for the story,” says Rupert Goold. For “The Hunt,” his idea was to compress “the story into a series of gladiatorial scenes that offer scope to wonderful actors to mine the extraordinary depths that…
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Danny Kaye: A Brooklyn Dynamo Remembered
Throughout generations, Brooklyn has seen numerous budding talents take root and sprout into theatrical legends. None had germination as perfectly metaphoric as that of six-year-old David Daniel Kaminsky, who made his stage debut as a watermelon seed in a pageant at P.S.149 at 700 Sutter Avenue. Having forgotten to cover his ears, which protruded under…