Arts & Culture
Marika Hughes (Photo: Nisha Sondhe)If you listen to Marika Hughes’ latest CD “New York Nostalgia [http://www.marikahughes.com],” you are likely to find the songs infectious, seductive, and distinctive in a way you can’t quite put your finger on. But if you go to see the Ditmas
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“Crosecitree,” mixed media artwork by Ditmas Park resident Kathy Levine.The environment where an artist creates their work can show up in unexpected ways. If you peer out the second floor window of the farmhouse in the Berkshires where Herman Melville lived while he wrote Moby Dick, you can see
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King Solomon Hicks (Photo: the artist)There aren’t that many musicians who can boast seven years of professional experience before they’ve celebrated their 20th birthday. (Mozart comes to mind, but he hasn’t been gigging much lately.) “King” Solomon Hicks [http://kingsolomonhicks.com/] is another member of that
Central Brooklyn
Battle Pass, or Flatbush Pass, in what is now Prospect Park. The pass, seen here in 1866, was the scene of a bloody battle during the Revolutionary War. (Collection: The Brooklyn Museum)Celebrating Presidents Day — which falls on the third Monday of each February — has been reduced to seeing pitchmen
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The Dirty Water Dogs (Photo: Dirty Water Dogs)According to purists, you can only celebrate Mardi Gras one day during the year. As a long-time Gulf Coast resident explained, it’s fine to have Carnival festivities throughout the weeks leading up to the big day. But a real Mardi Gras
Central Brooklyn
What’s in a name? In the case of one particular Brooklyn-based five-piece band, just about everything you need to know. Anticipating the first performance by The Kneeling Drunkards [https://youtu.be/XUG-F2oqNMM] at Bar Chord on Friday, January 15, we talked to singer/guitarist Jeff Jones about what the
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French 75 at Highbury Pub. (Photo by Mike Sheehan Photography)New Year’s is the quintessential time for turning over a new leaf, and what better way to get an early start than sampling a brand-new cocktail as you celebrate the arrival of 2016? But what’s the best cocktail
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Super Hi-Fi (Photo credit Kevin Irby)If you’ve caught Super Hi-Fi (“Brooklyn’s finest double trombone-fueled live dub,” according to their website [http://superhifimusic.com/]) at one of their shows, or enjoyed their Dub to the Bone LP, they might not strike you as the most obvious choice for
Cha-Cha's
Photo via The SerpentonesWhen the Serpentones [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGEHXXP3LQA&feature=youtu.be] appear at Bar Chord [http://www.barchordnyc.com/] Friday night, it will be a return stop on a journey that took them from Coney Island to Ditmas Park via Talkeetna, Alaska. The band
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Photo by Lola FlashIn local Naomi Jackson [http://www.naomi-jackson.com/]‘s new novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, two girls spend the summer of 1989 with their grandmother in Barbados, and it’s Jackson’s deft descriptions of both people and places that earned her the accolade “a
Gabriel Cohen
Photo via Gabriel Cohen [http://www.gabrielcohenbooks.com/indexbio.html]A few weeks ago, a post asking readers to name their favorite novel set in the neighborhood [/blog/news/what-are-the-best-books-set-in-ditmas-park]drew several comments. One was a recommendation for The Ninth Step, the most recent book in Gabriel Cohen’s series