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Photo by BRIC TV via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/BRICTV/photos/a.366643391893.194142.87981956893/10153651115096894/?type=3&theater] Congratulations to BRIC, recipient of 19 New York Emmy Award nominations! The nominations [http://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/bric-receives-19-new-york-emmy-award-nominations] for the 60th Annual New York Emmy Awards were announced
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Miguel Luciano’s Double-Phantom/Entro-P.R. and Pa-lan-te, 2017 [“Pa’lante, siempre pa’lante” or “Forward, always forward” was the mantra of the Young Lords Party, a Puerto Rican activist group] (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Ride or Die [http://www.bricartsmedia.org/art-exhibitions/ride-or-die-exhibition-newly-commissioned-work-miguel-luciano] When: On view February 2nd
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Microcosm Fundraiser & Multi-Media Art Exhibition [http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Sara-Lynn-Sterling-Microcosm-A-Benefit-by-Brooklyn-Artists] When: Sunday, February 26th, 6 to 9:30pm Where: Stellar Yoga Space [http://stellarstretch.com/], 915 Fulton Street (between Clinton & Waverly Avenues), Clinton Hill What: Fundraiser and gallery show featuring the work of ten local artists (and
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Pearl Necklace. (Photo by Doreen Garner)Because of the distortions introduced when you try to depict a round globe on a flat sheet, most world maps show the continent of Africa as much smaller than it really is, relative to other places in the world. The same thing can happen
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Not My President Day (Photo by strawwings via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQxrgEFBR8X/?tagged=notmypresidentday])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. –Sh*t people say at the Park Slope Food Co-op [New York
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Rachel Lyon (R) and Sarah Bridgins at Ditmas Lit. (Photo by Debra Pearlman)On a frigid, rainy Tuesday in January, Ditmas Parkers squeezed into the cozy faux-log-cabin outpost perched in Sycamore’s backyard. Huddled around a crackling “fire” and heat lamps, this devoted literary crowd gathered for Ditmas Lit, the
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Cortelyou public library. (Photo by Chris Farrell)The library is usually a place where silence reigns, but for an hour this Thursday, February 23, staff and patrons at the Cortelyou branch of the Brooklyn public library will stand that idea on its head. The branch is hosting a special all-ages
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Photo by Ground Floor Gallery via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/events/237887826669584/]Park Slope’s Ground Floor Gallery [http://groundfloorbk.com/] (339 5th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues) is organizing a new exhibit entitled “Marked Urgent” — An Exhibition in Defense of Free Press, and they need your help!
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Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by bam_brooklyn via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQTKHo8lFrz/?taken-by=bam_brooklyn])Harvey Lichtenstein, the former President and Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music [http://www.bam.org/], passed away on Saturday at the age of 87. The New York Times
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Jenna Morello does not like labels. The 31-year-old New Jersey native has been painting vibrant murals all around Sunset Park, adorning drab walls of industrial buildings with bright roses, fierce animals, and bold patterns, but she’s reluctant to call herself an “artist.” “You will never hear me say ‘artist.
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Emeline Michel (Photo via Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts)Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts [http://www.BrooklynCenter.org]continues its season on Saturday, March 4 with Haitian singer/songwriter Emeline Michel. Called “the Joni Mitchell of Haiti,” Ms. Michel has toured the globe both as a performer and
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Blindspot [http://www.nbc.com/blindspot], the FBI drama currently in its second season on NBC, that was spotted filming last year in Clinton Hill [/street-closure-fyi-on-and-around-clinton-avenue-thursday-february-11-fortgreene/] , will be filming along Beverly between Coney and the Q station, on parts of Westminster Road and Matthews Court this coming Monday, so don’