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Tomorrow may be the shortest day of the year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t pack in some great music and dancing! On the winter solstice, Thursday, 21, the non-profit Make Music [http://www.makemusicny.org/winter/] is featuring two musical events in Brooklyn for your holiday enjoyment.
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Dancers tore up the lighted floor while celebrating the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Fever” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BAY RIDGE – While bitter cold struck the borough last night, a disco inferno was burning in Bay Ridge, with a one-night-only recreation the the 2001 Space Odyssey Nightclub, which was featured in
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This chilly weekend offers lots of opportunities to get some holiday shopping done and indulge in holiday treats. There are also three productions of The Nutcracker (one by Brooklyn Ballet, one by The State Ballet Theatre of Russia, and a hip-hop version featuring Kurtis Blow) and diverse musical performances. With
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West & Noble Streets, Greenpoint via Google MapsGREENPOINT – The NYPD and Notify NYC have announced that a media production crew will simulate an “explosion and fireball effect” Tuesday night between 5:30pm and 9pm on West Street between Milton and Noble Streets in Greenpoint. This one-time occurrence may be visible
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Brooklyn is a borough where 47% of residents speak a language other than English at home, as Borough President Eric Adams is wont to remind us. This holiday season, the Brooklyn Public Library is capitalizing on that linguistic diversity, offering an expanded slate of holiday programming in myriad languages. The
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Tis the season—there are lots of holiday fairs, markets, and pop-ups to shop this weekend for all your gifting needs. There are also two interactive, immersive art events, a photography exhibit, DUMBO’s First Thursday gallery walk, and an anti-Santa Con pub crawl in Gowanus. Find out what else
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Saturday Night Fever is coming back to Brooklyn for one night only—on a Wednesday! To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic disco flick, the original 2001 Space Odyssey Nightclub is coming back to life in a Southern Brooklyn Chinese restaurant. The Bamboo Garden, which sits at 64th Street
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Andrew Neesley and Tim Emmerick had individually forged some impressive musical credentials before they met. Neesley was an acclaimed jazz trumpeter and performed with artists as diverse as Ray Barreto, the Roots, James Taylor, and Lady Gaga. Emmerick, one of the first musicians ever to earn a Master’s degree
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BOERUM HILL – DreamStreet Theatre Company [http://www.dreamstreetnyc.org] will present a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for their annual winter production scheduled for next week. Set in a small American town, Wilder’s three-act play tells stories of the townspeople’s everyday lives. The DreamStreet Theatre
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Fort Greene Park tree lighting (Photo courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)The holiday season is upon us. Holiday shopping has officially begun and festive decorations are popping up everywhere. There are a few events to check out this weekend to find gifts crafted by local artists and makers as
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Ezra Gale has spent the past several years auditioning to replace James Brown as the hardest working man in show business, serving as founder, bandleader, and sideman in a series of genre-splitting projects (start with Afrobeat, jazz, classic country, dub reggae, and you’re just scratching the surface). Somehow along
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The Hip Hop Nutcracker [http://bit.ly/2za19il], a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music, is set to return to New York this holiday season with the first appearance at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre [http://www.kingstheatre.com/]. The Hip Hop Nutcracker [http://bit.ly/2za19il] will