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Photo via yesmini_ [https://www.instagram.com/p/BAKTnbanTbC/?taken-by=yesmini_]. WNYC Studios [http://www.wnyc.org/] and The Nation [http://www.thenation.com/] are launching There Goes the Neighborhood, an eight-part weekly podcast series exploring the “remarkable and destabilizing phenomenon of gentrification.” The preview episode is available here [http:
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Whoopi Goldberg is so New York! Born and raised in Manhattan, she continues to be a hometown darling with her work as a humanitarian, writer, director, actress, comedian, talk show host and long-term juror for the Tribeca Film Festival. With her residency on The View, stints on Broadway, and recent
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Album cover for “3001: A Laced Odyssey” by The Flatbush Zombies. Artist: David NakayamaAre you a visual artist in Flatbush? #SAVEARTSPACE [http://www.saveartspace.org] and the Flatbush Zombies [http://thegloriousdead.com/pages/3001-a-laced-odyssey] want to help local artists display their art publicly in our area. The non-profit arts project
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Photo courtesy of Kelly AndersonKelly Anderson’s acclaimed 2012 film “My Brooklyn” [http://www.mybrooklynmovie.com/] follows her journey as a “Brooklyn gentrifier” trying to understand the forces reshaping the various neighborhoods she has lived in since 1988. The filmmaker collaborated with Allison Dean, a journalist and urban planner, on
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Much Ado About Nothing, 2015. (Photo by Justin Bereman)Not many neighborhoods can claim a classical theater company of their own. And even fewer neighborhoods can claim a classical theater company of their own that offers Shakespeare for free. But we can. South Brooklyn Shakespeare [https://www.southbrooklynshakespeare.com/] will
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Photo by: Kings TheatreThe Broadway hit RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles is about to make its Brooklyn debut at Flatbush’s own Kings Theatre [/blog/news/kings-theatre-rain-a-tribute-to-the-beatles-sponsored/] for just two nights — Friday, March 4th and Saturday, March 5th. The show celebrates 50 years of music from what is arguably
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Image via Google Maps.Apple Art Supplies and it’s owner, Sam Lee, are the subject of their very own profile in the [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/nyregion/apple-art-supplies-in-brooklyn-is-hub-for-matte-knives-and-gossip.html?_r=1&referer=https://www.google.com/] New York Times [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/
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Visury Fox performing her show at Townhouse 275. (Photo by Donny Levit / Bensonhurst Bean)Bet you can’t guess where drag queen Visury Fox got her start. “Toys For Tots [http://www.toysfortots.org/default.aspx],” says Fox, referring to the organization that provides toys to less fortunate children during
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Brooklyn’s premier presenter of contemporary performing arts by artists of African descent, 651 ARTS remains a leader in supporting and presenting dynamic black artists. The 28th season continues this focus by offering audiences four Classically Black evenings of dance, poetry and music. Photo courtesy of 651 ArtsDayton Contemporary Dance
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Photo via BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn [hhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BBV0SbBmnSP/?taken-by=briccelebratebk&hl=en]June may seem like a long time from now, but that warm weather and summer sun has a way of sneaking up on you. So while you’re waiting, you can prepare yourself by
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Photo via BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn [hhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BBV0SbBmnSP/?taken-by=briccelebratebk&hl=en]June may seem like a long time from now, but that warm weather and summer sun has a way of sneaking up on you. So while you’re waiting, you can prepare yourself by
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Screenshot of the WNYC map of film shoots in Brooklyn.Do you ever feel like you’re living in Hollywood? Probably not (the weather certainly destroys that illusion), but Brooklyn is often called Hollywood East, what with the filming boom for TV shows and movies across the borough and particularly