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Deborah Kass’ sculpture “YO/OY” and Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine’s “DO NOT DISAPPEAR INTO SILENCE” in front of The Brooklyn Museum as part of the museum’s “Something to Say” art series. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — The Deborah Kass [https://deborahkass.com/index2.html] installation “OY/YO” just
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Attika J. Torrence, Joseph C. Grant Jr. and Rob Stapleton address following the Brooklyn debut of The Stuff during The Bedford Stuyvesant Crown Heights Film Festival at the Billie Holiday Theatre.BEDFORD STUYVESANT — It’s film festival season and Brooklyn’s all in. The Bedford Stuyvesant Crown Heights Film Festival
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This final week of September offers lots of fun things to do, including film screenings, the Chile Pepper Fest, and the Shop Black Pop-up. Don’t forget to check out the first annual Brooklyn School Gardens Crawl [/brooklyn-school-gardens-crawl/] on Saturday where ten District 15 schools from Red Hook to Kensington
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – At the lobby of the Brooklyn College Library, lies a new exhibit celebrating Brooklyn’s diversity and immigrant life. The various panels tell the stories of immigrants in their own words. It’s called “We are Brooklyn.” [https://wearebrooklyn.org/] “Here we are in one of
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Councilmember Rafael Espinal and “Night Mayor” Ariel Palitz at an event in March of this year (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Nine months after the city created the Office of Nightlife and named the first ever “Night Mayor,” a listening tour of the five boroughs is set to begin—and
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The autumnal equinox on Saturday officially brings summer to an end, but that won’t stop the many events planned for the weekend. Don’t miss the first-ever Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival [/discover-the-district-downtown-brooklyns-inaugural-weekend-arts-festival/] which kicks off on Friday with Soul Summit, continues into Saturday with Community Day, and closes on
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PARK SLOPE – The Pavilion sign came off the marquee this morning, and Nitehawk went up! Last time that happened was when Sanders became The Pavilion in 1996. Renovations of the movie theater are on track to open in October, pending some inspections, the company tells us. Photo by Donny Levit
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Open House New York [https://ohny.org/weekend/plan-your-weekend/grid?borough[0]=xTMUDWdwXE3Ma827I0JS] (OHNY) released its 2018 schedule today and it features 65 sites in Brooklyn to check out! Taking place Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14 the annual event opens the doors to hundreds of interesting sites across
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Last week the Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-literary-prize] and the Brooklyn Eagles [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/brooklyn-eagles] announced the list of finalists for the fourth annual Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. The BPL Literary Prize was launched in 2015 by the Brooklyn Eagles, a group
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Last night author Jennifer Egan was in the green room of the Brooklyn Public Library‘s central branch getting ready to go on stage for a talk about her book Manhattan Beach [https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12077548__SManhattan%20beach__Orightresult__X7;jsessionid=C6152372AEE5D3D6A009F2B52F537256?lang=
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Photo Courtesy of Feld EntertainmentIn the imaginations of adults and children alike, the characters who live on Sesame Street loom large. If they’re a part of our childhood, then they kind of dominate our childhood. And at a certain point, we discover — or are told — that those characters have
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FORT GREENE – How do you say goodbye to a beloved artistic leader? By putting on a spectacular show and dancing the night away! Joe Melillo, BAM’s Celebration of Joseph V. Melillo (Photo by Richard Termine) The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted a special event at the BAM Harvey