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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Fifty years ago, Albert Ayler [https://www.discogs.com/artist/202309-Albert-Ayler] attempted a musical experiment—recording an album combining the spontaneity and iconoclasm of free jazz with more traditional song structures and a strong R&B groove. New Grass [https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/albert-ayler/new-grass-6/] was a
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BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK – The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy [https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/press/brooklyn-bridge-park-conservancy-partners-with-smorgasburg-celebrates-women-directors-at-movies-with-a-view-1] announced on Thursday this summer’s Movies With A View lineup [https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/event-series/movies-with-a-view], featuring eight films that celebrate the work of women, trans-women, and genderqueer directors. Movies With a View in Brooklyn
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It’s Memorial Day weekend and the kick-off to summer! Check out our list of events happening over the long weekend to help you welcome the season and the (hopefully) warmer weather. Don’t forget to check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – The Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch launched NYC’s first Musical Instrument Lending Library Wednesday afternoon with a kick-off event featuring displays of the music-makers available to check-out and performances by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Youth Ensemble as well as the BPL’s own house band
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/outer-space-outdoors-movies-albee-square-curated-by-alamo-drafthouse-cinema] and Alamo Drafthouse [https://drafthouse.com/theater/downtown-brooklyn] will kick off the summer season by hosting the Outer Space Outdoors movie series Thursday evenings in June at Albee Square. Via downtownbrooklyn.com [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/events/outer-space-outdoors-movies-albee-square-curated-by-alamo-drafthouse-cinem
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SUNSET PARK/CONEY ISLAND – Last week the London-based artist, Camille Walala [http://camillewalala.com], unveiled her vibrant new mural adorning the exterior of an Industry City building at 2nd Avenue and 37th Street. Camille Walala’s mural at 203 37th Street (on 2nd Ave), Sunset Park (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)
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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Works created by the first graduating class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/schools/feirstein.php] will be screened for an invitation-only audience of industry professionals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] on
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BAY RIDGE – This small book, published last month, features 11 true crimes, some solved, some still “cold”, that took place in Bay Ridge between 1874 up until 1957. Packed with historic details about the neighborhood and the individual time periods (there was a time when parking on streets overnight was
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AN EPIC MUSICAL EVENT FEATURING A 55-PIECE ORCHESTRA & VOCALISTS PERFORMING A BREATHTAKING SYNTHESIS OF BRAHMS’ 1ST SYMPHONY AND RADIOHEAD’S OK COMPUTER Kings Theatre, Brooklyn [http://www.kingstheatre.com/], in association with the Catskill Jazz Factory, will play host to a must-see musical event: The Stereo Hideout Orchestra, led
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FLATBUSH – If you watch the credits roll at the close of Flatbush Luck [http://www.flatbushluck.com], you’ll see actors Tanner Novlan and Robby Stahl listed in the leading roles. But anyone who has seen the film can tell you that the Brooklyn neighborhood that lends its name to
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This weekend features a benefit party for Arts Gowanus, a couple of events celebrating Brooklyn design, and a Mother’s Day concert! Don’t forget to check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list one of your own. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/
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Throughout the month of April, New Yorkers had the opportunity to vote in NYC’s second annual “One Book, One New York [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/mome/initiatives/1book1ny.page]” campaign and help select a tome for everyone in the city to read together. Courtesy of the Mayor’s