Arts & Culture
It’s President’s Day weekend and there’s lots going on including art exhibits, concerts, a magic show, and retro gaming tournament! It’s also Lunar New Year on Friday! Take a look at our list of events celebrating the Year of the Dog [/year-dog-celebrating-lunar-new-year-brooklyn/] including Sunday’s Brooklyn
Arts & Culture
Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/coneyislandfun/photos/gm.1737803993191073/10155107784154514/?type=3&theater] The weekend’s almost here! There’s lots happening starting on Thursday including dessert, music, magic, and puppies! Don’t forget to check out our listings for Battle of Brooklyn commemorative events [/commemorate-the-241st-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-brooklyn/] and local
Central Brooklyn
Mmm, fries (Photo via Smorgasburg [https://www.facebook.com/smorgasburg/photos/pb.143092332426823.-2207520000.1439500827./802786356457414/?type=3&theater] )TGIF — Get enough of the scorching heat [/double-whammy-heat-advisory-air-quality-alert-issued-today/] yet? You can still enjoy the summer weekend in your favorite boro, with local activism, live music, and more! If you have
Kids & Family
We’ve all been there. Weeks of tween crises, toddler meltdowns, work pressures, and just those everyday stressors of life in the city have built up and pushed Mama to the brink. Sometimes you just have to get away. Luckily, those of us living in NYC don’t have to
City Kid Corner
We’ve all been there. Weeks of tween crises, toddler meltdowns, work pressures, and just those everyday stressors of life in the city have built up and pushed Mama to the brink. Sometimes you just have to get away. Luckily, those of us living in NYC don’t have to
Events
Courtesy of The Owl’s HeadLots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Send us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. “Giving Up The Ghost” Art Exhibit [https://www.facebook.com/
Coney Island Museum
Photo by rgtmum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rgtmum/6147550110/]Send us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. Water Color Portraits by Albert Massimi [http://www.bklynlibrary.
Coney Island Museum
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanSend us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. New Utrecht International Film Festival [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/new-utrecht-international-new-utrecht-library-081315] When: Thursday, August 18, 2:30pm-4:30pm Where: New
Coney Island Museum
Dick Zigun (Source: Whiskeygonebad/Flickr)What better way to recognize the opening of summer than to spend some time with the most well-known man of the world’s most well-known summer destination? I’m guessing that’s what the New York Times was thinking when they sent a reporter down
Coney Island Museum
The Great Fredini (Photo Via 3dprinter-world.com)Fred Kahl is known in Coney Island as The Great Fredini [/get-yourself-3d-printed-at-coney-island/] with his Scan-A-Rama, where he scans and creates prints of people as souvenirs. Now, he has also embarked on a project to create a 3D printout of Coney Island’s destroyed
100th anniversary of topsy
The tale of Topsy the Elephant is sad and cruel, and today marks the 110th year since her grisly demise at the hands of Thomas Edison’s staged electrocution on Coney Island at Luna Park. Topsy was a female circus elephant who never was comfortable with her captivity. Over her
charles
Charles Denson and Keith Suber at 2011 Coney Island Film Festival. Photo © Norman BlakeKeith Suber is the type of guy who can give you hope for a better world. An original Rollin’ 60’s Crip gang member, who led a perilous life of crime most of us cannot begin to
Coney Island Museum
An artifact from the Congress of Curious Peoples exhibit (Source: Coney Island USA)If you think Coney Island is all sorts of wild now, you should have seen it 100 years ago. Coney Island was once a place filled with unforgettable freak shows and spectacles that would be controversial today.