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It’s Showtime! Flatbush Misdemeanors

Kevin Iso as Kevin and Dan Perlman as Dan in FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS. Photo Credit: SHOWTIME.From the opening moments of Flatbush Misdemeanors [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7fmi5K9zk], Brooklynites will feel right at home. After a shot down Flatbush Avenue, the opening scene set behind Erasmus High School introduces

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Brooklyn Visual Arts Teacher Receives Recognition for Student Awards

Sarah Grace Holcomb (right) with students. Photo courtesy of Sarah Grace Holcomb.Brooklyn students Brianna Blue and Aleksandra Kwiecień recently received two of the highest honors in the 2021 Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, [https://www.artandwriting.org/] a nationwide program that recognizes artistic achievement in teens. Both Blue and Kwiecień,

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Amant Foundation’s Sprawling New Headquarters in East Williamsburg Bring A Massive Space Dedicated To Nurturing Artists

The Amant Foundation [https://www.amant.org/], a non-profit arts organization that debuted in 2020 with its artist residency in Siena, Italy, has made its official home in East Williamsburg. Amant exterior, under construction, April 2021. Courtesy of the Amant Foundation.On June 5th, Amant will open the doors to

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The Rose Room Comes to East Williamsburg, Offering “Nights of Mystery and Wonder”

Guest Artist Allison Schieler. Photo courtesy of Mister Dusty Rose.The Rose Room, a nightlife variety show coming to queer bar and performance space 3 Dollar Bill [https://www.3dollarbillbk.com/] on May 13th, is here to answer the prayers of live performance-deprived Brooklynites. The queer, inclusive, body-positive experience is

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Greenpoint Terminal Market Returns to the Greenpoint Waterfront this Sunday

Greenpoint Terminal Market during its inaugural season in 2020. Courtesy of Greenpoint Terminal Market.Greenpoint Terminal Market [https://greenpointterminalmarket.com/], the outdoor flea market that opened on the Greenpoint waterfront last summer, returns this weekend with around 100 vendors as well as live music, food, and ample room – over four

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Church Avenue is Now Also Known as Pierre Toussaint Boulevard

Church Avenue from Nostrand Avenue to Coney Island Avenue has been co-named Pierre Toussaint Boulevard. Mukta Ahmad/BklynerFrom Nostrand and Coney Island Ave, Church Avenue was co-named Pierre Toussaint Boulevard on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2021. The co-naming ceremony started with a prayer at the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church [https:

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Green-Wood’s First Ever Hanami Festival Showcases Springtime Cherry-Blossoms

Event-goers gaze at the blooming Japanese Cherry Blossom trees. April 19, 2021. Bklyner/Cai PigliucciThe cherry blossoms are in full-bloom, drawing New York’s nature lovers to parks all over the city to admire the delicate, ephemeral blossoms. Many of the city’s cherry blossom viewing festivals, including the reigning

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Bay Ridge Celebrates Ramadan with Lights for the First Time

“Happy Ramadan from Balady” lights up 5th Avenue between 72nd Street. and Ovington Ave. Mukta Ahmad/BklynerRamadan began last week and for the first time in the history of New York City, Muslims got their own Ramdan lights in Bay Ridge. The twenty blocks along 5th Ave from 65th Street

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Rejuvenation, Celebration and “Ridiculous Emceeing” at BAM’s First Live Virtual Spring Event

Image: BAMRejuvenation, celebration and “ridiculous emceeing.” That’s what BAM has on offer for its first live, virtual concert of the spring, which will take place on the evening of April 23rd: an interactive hip-hop showcase featuring music, spoken word poetry and dance performances, along with live visual design that

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Park Slope Record Store Changes Owners, Bets On Vinyl

Chris Lentz at his store. Lucas Miller/BklynerIn an era where any song is just a few taps away on your preferred streaming app, independent record stores feel like a relic. So when Jason Figel decided to retire after running Music Matters in Park Slope for 22 years, he was

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Public Art: Breathing Pavilion Features Weekly Live Music Series In Downtown Brooklyn

Melanie Charles performing at the Breathing Pavilion. (Image: Argenis Apollinario/Downtown Brooklyn Partnership)The normally bustling plaza at 300 Ashland Place [https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/listings/the-plaza-at-300-ashland] is now a place for quiet introspection. That’s thanks to a weekly live music series [https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/events/breathing-pavilion-a-weekly-music-series-featuring-joel-ross] presented

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Socially Distant Blues

My fridge is full, pantry too So, why do I still feel empty inside? I’m physically distant but digitally connected Scrolling from my couch while couch-surfing in place I have followers and friends but nobody to share my life Will I find comfort in this chaos or discontentment in

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BAM Guest Curator Hanif Abdurraqib Releases Essay Collection on Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib. Photo credit: Megan Leigh Barnard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In his new essay collection, ‘A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance [https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9781984801197],’ award-winning poet, cultural critic, and BAM Guest Curator at Large Hanif Abdurraqib [http://www.abdurraqib.com/] examines the history of

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Open Culture Program Brings Live Events to Brooklyn Streets

Performers at Dock Street between Front Street and Water Street, Brooklyn. Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.This Spring, over 50 Brooklyn streets [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cecm/cultural-events/locations.page]may be used as entertainment venues, thanks to the new Open Culture program. Open Culture will shut

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Brooklyn Galleries Struggle And Reinvent What It Means To Share Art

Outside La Bodega (Photo by Miguel Ayuso)La Bodega [https://www.labodegastudios.com/] on the edge of Sunset Park wasn’t just an art gallery: it held art classes, exhibit openings, and even birthday parties. The motto of the space was to create art by and for the community. On

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Skelly! On Smartphone Or Skelly IRL?

Skelly [https://eightygames.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/skelly-a-new-york-street-game/comment-page-1/] , a popular children’s street game, is making a comeback as an app. Sometimes referred to as skully, skelsy, or skellies, it is played by “shooting” or flicking a bottle cap across a numbered grid, usually marked in chalk on

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Arrivals & Departures At Brooklyn Borough Hall

Arrivals and Departures. Rayna Iwamoto/BklynerA new interactive art installation in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall pays tribute to people — those leaving this world and those entering it — in the recognizable form of train station arrivals and departures boards. The artwork, fittingly named Arrivals + Departures, is the work of the

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‘White People. DOING Something’ Wants You to Have the Hard Conversations

Unite NY Rally on Juneteenth 2020. (Photo: Adrian Childress/Bklyner)When Brooklyn couple Aja Davis and Molly Ola Pinney read the imperative, “white people, do something!’ in a piece of online artwork around the time of last summer’s protests, they took it quite literally. In the roughly nine months

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What’s The Latest in The Brooklyn Music Scene? One Artist Explores an Unconventional Sound

Adam Holmes playing in his music studio. Cai Pigliucci | BklynerAfter many years of trial and error, in his latest EP, Adam Holmes [https://adamholmesmusic.com/] , a Brooklyn-based musician and music teacher, finally landed on an experimental and percussion-based sound that gives a twist to the classical genre. Holmes grew up

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Pandemusic Concerts Offer Musicians A Payday—and a Chance to Reconnect

Emily Braden [https://emilybraden.com/] performing at a Pandemusic event in October. (Image: Josue Caceres)When the coronavirus pandemic overtook New York, Josue Caceres’ gigs—and some of his friends—started to disappear. Caceres is a sax player, originally from Brazil, who moved to Brooklyn in 2015 to pursue his

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Get to know Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema on Instagram Live

We’re bringing our state-of-the-art film school to you. With Academy Award-nominated producer and the school’s new Executive Director Richard Gladstein [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/press-room/bcpress_200623.php] (Pulp Fiction, The Bourne Identity, The Hateful Eight, Finding Neverland) at the helm, you’ll get an

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Last Supper at LatchKey Gallery: A Seat At The Table With 12 Artists

“Cheers to You” by Ariel Dannielle, courtesy of LatchKey Gallery.The Last Supper [https://www.latchkeygallery.com/press-release-last-supper], an art exhibition showcasing the work of 12 African American female artists, opened to the public this month at LatchKey Galler [https://www.latchkeygallery.com/]y at Industry City [https://industrycity.com/

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Look Up – Let Freedom Ring At BAM Feb 12-15

Jasmine Wahi x For Freedoms “On Visibility” 2020 for BAM Let Freedom Ring Vol. 1 displayed in January.The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM [https://www.bam.org/]) is bringing back its Let Freedom Ring project in celebration of Black History Month and President’s Day. The public project, curated

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BKLYN Fashion Academy Graduates Debut Their Looks In Virtual Fashion Show

Dominus Sowell working at home. Courtesy of Dominus Sowell.Tomorrow, the soon-to-be graduates of Brooklyn Public Library’s BKLYN Fashion Academy [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bklyn-fashion-academy] will debut their original collections in a Zoom fashion show, free and fully accessible to the public. This year’s designers – a mix of

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Bringing Back Arts: Open Culture Coming To An Establishment Near You

Mayor Bill de Blasio announces the opening of the Open Culture Program to allow live performances on designated streets. Dock Street between Front Street and Water Street, Brooklyn. Monday, February 08, 2021. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of Open Culture, a