Saturday May 12 is the opening date for New York-based, Parisian-born artist & sculptor Prune Nourry’s “Holy River” exhibit at Cobble Hill’s Invisible Dog Gallery. The launch takes place 6-10 p.m., at 51 Bergen Street. The show features the culmination of a three-year project on gender selection focused on India, which was first offered to […]
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The first New York Book Fair opened today at the brand-new Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, and continues tomorrow and…
May 4, 2012Craig Claiborne, who was born in 1920, took until he was nearly 40 to find himself. Born in Mississippi,…
May 4, 2012Just as another season of alfresco dining and drinking in the neighborhood is getting underway, a new sidewalk café opened for business yesterday at the NU Hotel Brooklyn. Encompassing 416 square feet, the outdoor space has seating capacity for 30 patrons. Current hours of operation are from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., with food served […]
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A petting zoo, rides, merry-go-round, dancing and plenty of eats will highlight the 2012 Families First Brooklyn Spring Carnival in Cobble Hill, Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event takes places on Baltic Street between Clinton and Court streets. Rides are $2 apiece and an all-day pass is $25, benefitting the […]
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The annual Court Street “Brooklyn” Festival takes place this Sunday, May 6, in Carroll Gardens, from Union Street to 9th Street, comprising about 200 vendors. The event includes kiddie rides, live entertainment, music and more street eats than there are kernels of corn on a cob. The Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]
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In Paris, in the second half of the 19th century, the painters Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Seurat,…
April 27, 2012Dance and performance artist Carrie Ahern brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “you are what you eat”…
April 26, 2012April 25 is World Malaria Day and Interscope Recording Group (and Brooklyn Bugle Sessions alum) The Kin lend their…
April 25, 2012The title of Ellen Feldman’s novel is ascribed to Eric Partridge, the British lexicographer, who, as a young recruit,…
April 23, 2012