5 Positively Brooklyn Movies To Watch This Weekend
Want to feel really, really Brooklyn this weekend? Before Calebs, Britaleys and other trust fund hipsters moved to Brooklyn…
March 27, 2015-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A Pleasure and A Calling” A Novel by Phil Hogan
William Heming, the first person narrator of Phil Hogan’s engrossing novel “A Pleasure and A Calling,” likes to observe…
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Coney Island Brewing’s "1609 Amber Ale."
Coney Island Brewing Company’s “1609 Amber Ale” takes its name from the year Europeans first set foot on what we now know as Coney Island. I paired it with a “Smokin’ Henry” (smoked turkey, Black Forest ham, smoked Cheddar, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and …
March 21, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Exiles Return” by Elisabeth de Waal
Readers may be familiar with “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” Edmund de Waal’s memoir of his family’s lives, and…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: When the World Was Young, by Elizabeth Gaffney
When I was in Mrs. Blalock’s 12th grade English class at Robinson High School in Tampa, I was required to give a book report every six weeks. Mrs. Blalock said students must begin each report by saying why they had read the book. With a tip of the hat to my still loved though long deceased teacher, I’ll begin this with a disclosure: I read this novel in part because the author is the daughter of a friend, neighbor, and fellow Grace Church parishioner.
March 14, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Infatuations” A Novel by Javier Marías
“Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen,” says Javier Diaz-Varela, one…
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The Birth of Hardcore Punk In New York City (Part 2)
The End of the Beginning (Or, Bitte, Kann ich haben eine Fribble?) As discussed in Part 1, the first…
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TBT: Neil Sedaka, "Stairway to Heaven"
Long before there was Led Zeppelin, even before there were Yardbirds, there was Neil Sedaka. Brooklyn born and raised (his father was a cab driver) and trained to play classical piano in Julliard’s preparatory school program, Sedaka found his true love…
March 12, 2015
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Coney Island Brewing’s new "Overpass IPA" compared to its "Seas the Day" IPL.
Mmmm…..beer.
March 11, 2015
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The Birth of Hardcore Punk In New York City
Part 1: The Beginning and Before (i.e., Sting = A Tool) For some reason, there seems to be a…
March 11, 2015