Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” A Novel by Maria Semple
Bee Branch lives in Seattle with her dad, Elgin, who works at Microsoft, and her mom, Bernadette Fox, who…
May 16, 2014-
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Here’s the Full Schedule of Free Events at Brooklyn Bridge Park for Summer 2014
Brooklyn Bridge Park may be getting even more popular this summer — there’s a robust schedule of free events.
Full calendar after the jump.
May 14, 2014
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Sudan Stories with Jack Rice and Dan Patterson on Progressive AM 950
Recorded on AM 950 in Minneapolis as commentary on media training conducted by Small World News in Cairo, Egypt. Download Audio In which I join talk radio host, former CIA agent, and public defender Jack Rice to share stories on 950 AM in Minneapolis about storytelling, reporting from Cairo, and digital journalism in conflict […]
May 6, 2014
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Sudan Stories: The Story of M – Sell a Kidney or Make Bombs
Recorded in March 2014 as part of a media training by Small World News in Cairo, Egypt. Download Audio M is a Sudanese activist living in Cairo. As a young man in Sudan M was kidnapped, forced to join the military, and punished for refusing to learn bomb-making tactics. Years later M was released and […]
April 22, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Woman Upstairs,” A Novel by Claire Messud
Women’s anger is an uncertain thing. It’s deserved, but sometimes we hold back from expressing it. Nora Eldridge, the…
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With Apologies to Walt Whitman, an Opening Day Poem for Derek Jeter [VIDEO]
Just in time for Opening Day, Yankee fans from Brooklyn Heights and beyond wax poetic about Captain Derek Jeter in a revamped version of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” directed by BHB’s Heather Quinlan. (Who would like it to be known that she is a Mets fan.) Featuring scenes from Brooklyn Bridge Park, Grace […]
April 7, 2014
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Not An April Fool Prank: Atlantic Avenue’s Last Exit Bar To Close This Month
The owners of Last Exit Bar posted this dispatch on their Facebook page last night, announcing the bar would close at the end of the month:
April 1, 2014
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Stout standoff: Guinness vs. Brooklyn Dry Irish
A few weeks ago I noticed Brooklyn Brewery’s “Dry Irish Stout” on a shelf at my local supermarket. This piqued my curiosity. “Dry” isn’t a word I’ve associated with stout. I decided to get some and compare it to the stout I, and most people, know best:…
March 17, 2014
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Locks of Love on the Brooklyn Bridge
In my walks across the Brooklyn Bridge and back over the past year or so, I’ve noticed that couples have been writing their names on padlocks and attaching those locks to the fences beside the pedestrian walkway, as shown in the photo above. Sometimes,…
March 15, 2014
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Coney Island Brewing’s Mermaid Pilsner
A couple of weeks ago I tried Coney Island Brewing Company’s “Seas the Day” India Pale Lager. Now I’ve also had their Mermaid Pilsner. It’s good beer.Pilsner (or Pilsener) is a style of lager–a lager being any beer made with bottom fermenting yeast–t…
March 8, 2014
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