Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Her: A Memoir” by Christa Parravani
When one’s identical twin dies, is one still a twin? That’s one of the central questions in Christa Parravani’s…
February 23, 2014-
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Which Brooklyn Heights Watering Hole Is One Of The Best Dive Bars In Brooklyn?
Brooklyn Magazine published its list of the “Best Dive Bars in Brooklyn” this week and one of Brooklyn Heights’ oldest makes the list — Montero’s Bar and Grill (73 Atlantic Avenue). Brooklyn Magazine: “We don’t have a lot of foot traffic,” the bartender here told us recently—at least not in this weather, when no one’s […]
February 23, 2014
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Winter’s Tale, The Movie That Virtually Shut Down Brooklyn Heights Is Out And The Reviews Are Not Pretty
Last February the production for Winter’s Tale, the movie based upon Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel and starring Colin Farrell, basically shut down Brooklyn Heights. But it sure was exciting to see fake snow spread along Hicks Street and a majestic white horse prepping its scene on Joralemon Street. Nothing beats Hollywood Magic, right? So, were […]
February 17, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78” by Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan has written a series of books contrasting the built and natural landscapes in and around New York…
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Atlantic Avenue’s Chez Moi Welcomes Willy Ono As New Exec Chef And Now Serving Brunch Earlier
This dispatch just in from Chez Moi’s Patricia Ageheim as the eatery enters a new era under Executive Chef Willy Ono. If Ono’s Instagram feed is any indication, Brooklyn Heights is in for some eye popping cuisine:
February 10, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Dud Avocado” by Elaine Dundy
Sally Jay Gorce, a very young American woman just out of college, is the narrator and subject of Elaine…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Foreign Gods, Inc.” by Okey Ndibe
One culture’s guardian deity is another’s objet d’art, design inspiration or kitsch. Objects that might be worshipped, cared for,…
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Theater 2020 to Present Candide
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional theater company, will present a fortieth anniversary revival of the Hal Prince version of Leonard Bernstein’s (photo) musical comedy Candide, based on the novel by the same title by Voltaire. The show will run for four successive weekends: February 14, 15, and 16; 21, 22, and 23; 28, March […]
January 26, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Engagements: A Novel” by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Diamond is Forever, so the tagline goes, and the real Mary Frances Gerety who wrote it in 1947…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace” by D.T. Max
With the exception of (or possibly because of) “Consider the Lobster,” I have been a little intimidated by David…
January 17, 2014