Arts & Culture
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,” Theodor Geisel once said. “It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” The celebrated author, known to generations of children as Dr. Seuss, reveled in nonsense. Dreaming up unforgettable characters, places, and even words, Dr. Seuss
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Mark Harborth (Photo by Christine Bush/South Slope News)Maintaining a successful theatre company in New York City takes a great deal of blood, sweat, and tears, but 14th Street’s Gallery Players [http://galleryplayers.com/] is doing it with style, as they begin their 49th season here in Brooklyn.
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Photo via NYC Parks Department [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/albemarle-playground]The Singing Winds [https://www.facebook.com/SingingWinds] are back in Albemarle Playground [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/albemarle-playground] (McDonald Avenue, between Albemarle Road and Caton Avenue) this summer, bringing free activities for neighbors of all ages every Tuesday
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Image via Joao M. Da Silva [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205522978891055&set=gm.885622424791577&type=1&theater] This Saturday, February 28, the Kensington-based musician Joao M. Da Silva, of Luciernaga [https://soundofluciernaga.wordpress.com/], and Russ Alderson, of Xanthocephalus [http://xanthocephalus.tumblr.com/], are
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We were pretty pumped when neighbor Michael Hirshon [http://www.hirshon.net/info] sent us a link to these drawings he made of spots along Cortelyou Road [http://www.hirshon.net/visual-stories/cortelyou]. After we immediately pestered him with questions about his love of putting pen to paper, he was
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[/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2014-11-04-at-11.40.42-AM.png]Photo via the Theatre Historical Society of America After we wrote about the Kings Theatre asking neighbors for their memorie [/blog/art-music/share-memories-kings-theatre-opening-date-nears]s of the visually stunning arts space that is now undergoing a $94 million renovation project [/blog/art-music/photos-inside-the-stunning-loews-kings-theatre-restoration]
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The trend, right now, is for high school students [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/summer-college-programs-help-high-schoolers-test-waters/2014/02/21/75460b24-8398-11e3-8099-9181471f7aaf_story.html] to spend their summers on college campuses. Parents want their children comfortable in the academic world and excited for the college experience. Brooklynites–as self-proclaimed leaders of all
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Attention playwrights! The Gallery Players [http://galleryplayers.com/] (located on 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues) is currently accepting submissions for their Black Box New Play Festival [http://galleryplayers.com/news/the-17th-annual-black-box-new-play-festival/], scheduled for June of this year. Plays may range from ten minutes to full-length, and must not
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By Kyle Ligman and Alessandra Malito Twenty-three felonies — but no arrests – were reported in the 88th Precinct between Oct. 13 and 19, a decrease from 28 felonies and 11 arrests reported between Oct. 6 and Oct. 12. Reports from both weeks included car break-ins, fraudulent checks cashed and street robberies
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Local organization Ditmas Arts [https://www.facebook.com/artsindialogue] will be offering free art workshops in Ditmas Park in the coming weeks. Neighbors Abbie and Erika, who are organizing the workshops, say: > Our mission is to bring together diverse community members, using art as a way to engage in
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It doesn’t seem like it now, but summer will be on us before we know it. In fact, summer camp open houses have begun and will continue through April. We’ve compiled a list of day camps, organized by theme, happening around Brooklyn. Most of the camps provide limited
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Reader Kathleen Higgins snagged this photo of the quirky Dragonfly Banquet roaming the waters of the Rockaway Inlet this past Sunday. The vessel is a unique raft made entirely of recycled materials by Tim Johnson and Gretchen Neutrino in 1995, and the raft’s beautiful murals were painted by Gretchen
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The Brooklyn Museum calls upon all local artists to take advantage of the new “GO Project-” a chance of a lifetime! The museum is launching a new project, in which artists of Brooklyn will be given the opportunity to open their studios for a chance to display their work at
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"Mermade/Dionysus and the Pirates" (1999). Photo by Jeremiah Cox / Subway NutThe MTA Arts for Transit’s Amy Hausmann will lead participants on a walking tour along the Brighton Line, October 2 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with the focus being on the
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Source: DoGoodRightHere.orgIt looks like Steve Barrison [/big-barrison-nominated-for-do-gooders-award/] isn’t the only Sheepshead Bay resident vying for the Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Do Gooders award [http://www.dogoodrighthere.org/]. Manhattan Beach resident Sue Yellin got in touch to tell us about Pam Laskin and her work at the City College
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Your kids can have a little fun at the library that doesn’t involve books. This Thursday, December 17, 2009, there will be an arts and crafts session at the Homecrest branch [clibrary.org/branch_library_detail.jsp?branchpageid=248] of the Brooklyn Public Library. Here are the details as