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These Kids Got To Check Out Marvel Universe LIVE! Before Everyone Else

Photo by Avi Glickstein/BKLYNERIn case you missed our post a few weeks ago, Feld Entertainment and Marvel have partnered to bring 25 of your favorite superheroes and villains to life in Marvel Universe LIVE! at Barclays Center. The first performance is Thursday 2/22 at 7pm and it only

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Marvel Brings Captain America (And Much More) Home To Brooklyn

Later this month, Feld Entertainment and Marvel are teaming up to bring your favorite superheroes to life in Marvel Universe LIVE! at Barclays Center, and BKLYNER recently got a sneak peek. Featuring more than 25 characters, the all-ages show follows an original storyline and is packed with stunts, fights, explosions,

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Chaka Khan in concert Mother’s Day Weekend in Brooklyn

Chaka Khan. Photo via Brooklyn Center for the Performing ArtsBrooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College concludes its season on May 13th with a concert by iconic R&B artist Chaka Khan. One of the most influential singers in modern music, she has been honored with ten

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Emeline Michel Comes To Brooklyn Center

Emeline Michel (Photo via Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts)Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 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 in her role as

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Save The Date: Free Egg Creams, New & Improved Cyclone & More At Luna Park’s Opening Day

Courtesy of Luna Park/FacebookBrooklynites rejoice! Coney Island’s Luna Park, the Thunderbolt, and the iconic Cyclone rollercoaster will all re-open for spring on March 20 at 12pm. The iconic coaster, which has brought fearless daredevils to the park for almost a century, has been refurbished and painted, bringing it

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Viral The Movie Will Film On Avenue H This Thursday, August 20

Photo by Ditmas Park CornerHeads up, neighbors — you’re not going to be able to park on Avenue H, between Rugby Road and Westminster Road, this Thursday, August 20 because a movie, “Viral,” will be filming there. Parking will be held for the filming, which is slated to happen between

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The Prospect Park Carousel Reopens This Thursday!

It might be a little rainy, but at least it’ll be a bit warm this Thursday, March 26, making it a pretty good day to bring your family to the seasonal opening of the Prospect Park Carousel! The kids’ favorite will be back up and running starting at noon.

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Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Week

The Lodge at Sycamore. Photo courtesy SycamoreWe know it’s all wintery outside, but there are so many reasons for you to get out of your home this week, from seeing comedian and storyteller Adam Wade for free at Sycamore, a special Black History Month movie screening at the Cortelyou

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Share Your Memories Of The Kings Theatre As Its Opening Date Nears

Photo via Kings Theatre Opening at the tail end of our country’s Jazz Age and shuttering in 1977, the Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Avenue) holds countless memories, from those who streamed into the space to see Dolores del Rio in “Evangeline” on opening night – September 7, 1929 – to those

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Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Week

Happy September! To kick off the unofficial start to autumn, you can get your music trivia on (and see lots of amazing live music) at Bar Chord, hang out at Lark Cafe or Cynthia King Dance Studio with your kids, check out yoga at the newly opened Family of Light

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Diverse Programming, An Outdoor Space & Other Updates From The Kings Theatre

This morning we were fortunate enough to get a look at the most recent progress on the enormous rehabilitation project at the Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Avenue between Tilden Avenue and Duryea Place). Theater Executive Director Matt Wolf led us along with representatives from the Flatbush Avenue BID, NYC Business

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The Day: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations and a Spa for Kids

Clear winter skies over Clinton Hill. (Photo by Francisco Daum.)Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. It should be another mild day in the neighborhood, according to the National Weather Service, with temps around the mid-40s. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, and we have the

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Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Weekend

This weekend will be a busy one, full of local music, art, and performances, plus neighbors’ events outside of the area. Add lemonade and sun screen, then enjoy. Thursday, June 20 Preschool story time is at the Cortelyou Library, 10:30am.Kids can make nature journals and learn how to

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5 Questions for Sycamore Stories' Kelley Brannon

Sycamore is known for its whiskey selection, its impossibly-packed Saturday nights, and its music — but what you may not be aware of is the quiet storytelling series that goes on in its basement every third Wednesday of the month. Kelley Brannon, Assistant Designer in College Textbooks at Norton and creative

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Golden Concert Series Final Classic Rock Show In Marine Park Rescheduled

State Senator Golden’s final concert of the season in Marine Park, which was supposed to happen August 15, has been rescheduled for tomorrow, August 29. The correct information is in the flyer below:

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JoAnn From Bensonhurst Gives Viral Financial Advice

JoAnn from Bensonhurst is an internet phenomena. The wife and mother turned local commentator always has something colorful to say. Here’s Joanne’s latest viral rant about where to stick your money. You tell ’em JoAnn.

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Happy Labor Day!

(photo by karen horton via flickr)From all of us here at Bensonhurst Bean, have a fun, safe and relaxing Labor Day! We’ll be back tomorrow with the best in Bensonhurst business, entertainment, art and news.

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Kingsborough Concerts Start This Weekend

This weekend the Kingsborough Community College Performing Arts Center will be presenting its annual outdoor summer concert series, also known as HOT SUMMER NIGHTS! Tomorrow, Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 8 p.m., Patriotic Pops, a Brooklyn community wind and ensemble concert band, will be welcoming our nation’s Independence

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Strippers’ Billboard Stripped Away

Whoever said that nothing ever gets done at community civic meetings never saw this billboard. At the last SB/PB Civic Association meeting, a local resident expressed concern about signs that were posted in front of the Fusion nightclub and New York Steakhouse restaurant’s shared building on Emmons Avenue