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PARK SLOPE/WINDSOR TERRACE – NITEHAWK Prospect Park opens today in the building last occupied by The Pavillion movie house at 188 Prospect Park West with a 3:30 PM screening of The World Before Your Feet. The beautifully restored movie house has 7 theaters to show movies to 650 patrons
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CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Celebrate the winter solstice—the longest night of the year—on Friday, December 21, with the return of Make Music Winter [http://www.makemusicny.org/winter-parades/], an annual outdoor celebration featuring free participatory musical parades across the city. Launched in 2011 by Make Music New York
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PARK SLOPE/SUNSET PARK – Photographer Larry Racioppo [http://larryracioppo.com/index.html] loves his native Brooklyn and has made it his life’s work for nearly 50 years to document the borough’s transforming neighborhoods as well as his family and friends who have called it home. Brooklyn Before, Photographs,
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Nitehawk Grand Opening announcement via their InstagramPARK SLOPE/WINDSOR TERRACE – Looks like the wait is over. Late this morning, Nitehawk announced on Instagram that their opening date is set for next Wednesday, December 19. Advanced tickets will be available for purchase online beginning Monday, December 17. The full schedule will
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It’s almost Christmas! This weekend offers a variety of holiday pop-ups and markets, three productions of The Nutcracker, and a few chances to hear your favorite carols. Check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list one of your own. Shop The Holiday Market
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FORT GREENE – The Center for Fiction [http://www.centerforfiction.org] is relocating from its longtime home in midtown Manhattan to the Brooklyn Cultural District. The Center for Fiction rendering by BKSK ArchitectsScheduled to open on February 1, 2019 at 15 Lafayette Avenue, the 17,500-square-foot, three story facility will feature
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FLATBUSH / SPONSORED – A most beautiful, upbeat Christmas breeze is about to “blow” into Brooklyn, just as the holiday season reaches its apex. On December 23rd the historic Kings Theatre will proudly serve as the setting of The Hip Hop Nutcracker [http://www.kingstheatre.com/calendar/hip-hop-nutcracker/], the show that puts
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Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerFLATBUSH – As the borough shuffles to house all the city’s newcomers, part of its history will inevitably be gutted or succumb to full demolition. Religious institutions, with their architecturally exciting structures, brought families and communities
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CROWN HEIGHTS — NASA is working on sending humans to Mars as early as 2030 and some people are already planning for the trip. Space was the theme for a couple of dozen people that came out to Tech Tribe’s [http://mytechtribe.org/] “Chanukah on Mars” talk Wednesday night at
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Need help getting into the holiday spirit? There are festive concerts happening this weekend as well as Moscow Ballet’s production of the Great Russian Nutcracker and lots of holiday markets to find gifts for loved ones or for yourself. Check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around
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BUSHWICK – Radio Free Brooklyn [https://radiofreebrooklyn.com/] went live in the basement of a bike shop in Bushwick with four microphones and a mixer over three years ago. An internet radio station was another step for co-founders, Tom Tenney and Rob Prichard, in making space for creativity to fit the
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BUSHWICK – In bodegas across Bushwick this holiday season, neighbors and shoppers will find something new among the quick-stop staples they shop for: art. The Bodega Advent Project [http://www.bodegaadvent.com/], a joint undertaking between Bushwick Abbey and Iglesia de la Santa Cruz, will be creating a living advent calendar