Tale of the Tweets – The Weekend at Googa Mooga
The Bonnaroo of food, Googa Mooga, hit Prospect Park this weekend. And if you ask the Twitterverse it was…
May 20, 2012-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Absolution” by Patrick Flanery
Clare Wald is a South African writer. She lives alone, with Marie, her ‘woman of business.’ Sam Leroux, an…
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Super Kitsch! Nostalgic Shuffleboard Club Coming To Gowanus
A campy shuffleboard club inspired by Florida’s senior scene is making its hipster debut in Gowanus. Golden Girls unite! Owners of The Royal Palms, a grocery-store sized club featuring regulation-size shuffleboard courts and a full bar, is set to open their new venue in a 17,000 square foot repurposed Gowanus building—location not yet disclosed—featuring a […]
May 17, 2012
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer” by Susan Gubar
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly…
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Urban Folk Art Gallery Shines Spotlight on P.S. 8 Students
Creativity has spilled forth from the classrooms of P.S. 8 and found its way onto the walls of the…
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Booze & Books: NYC Lit Crawl Coming To Brooklyn For First Time May 19
The Brooklyn Lit Crawl beer-and-book festival, which stumbles through 13 Cobble Hill, Carroll Garden and Brooklyn Heights venues on Saturday May 19, 6-8 p.m., will comprise cocktails, trivia contests, book readings and special events along the way. Venues include Zombie Hut (273 Smith Street), Knit Lit (253 Smith), People’s Republic of Brooklyn (247 Smith), BookCourt […]
May 13, 2012
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Troubles” by J.G. Farrell
“Troubles” is JG Farrell’s long exploration, from the point of view of an English visitor, of Ireland in the…
May 11, 2012 -
SUNY Downstate to Slash Jobs, but LICH May Gain
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which took control of Long Island College Hospital last June, faces an operating deficit and will have to eliminate jobs and close or combine some operations. New York Post: SUNY Downstate Medical Center announced tonight that it will have to perform extensive “financial” surgery to slash jobs and eliminate redundant services […]
May 9, 2012
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‘Bayou n’ Brooklyn’ Cajun Festival This Weekend In Red Hook
This weekend, the Bayou n’ Brooklyn Music Festival will fill the air with the sounds of Cajun fiddles and Zydeco rub-boards at the Jalopy Music Theatre at 315 Columbia Street in Red Hook. From Friday through Sunday, featured acts will include music & dance from Cajun Hall of Famer Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew (also […]
May 9, 2012
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Luxury 85-Unit Rental Coming To Boerum Hill @ 316 Bergen Street
A new 85-unit luxury rental development is coming to Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, one block from the border of Park Slope. Partners the Naftali Group and AEW Capital Management recently closed on a 90,000-square-foot site at 316 Bergen Street, at the corner of Third Avenue for $6.7 million. The eight-story building—with 45 residential parking spaces on […]
May 5, 2012
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