Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Flyover Lives: A Memoir” by Diane Johnson
With “Flyover Lives” Diane Johnson, author of “Le Divorce” and many other books and articles, has added a distinctive…
April 4, 2014-
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REMARKABLE INFORMATION! Facts, facts, facts!!!
Hello, Princesses and Princes in this, the most Kingly of Counties! Ah, yes, if you were kind enough to…
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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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Tell the Bartender Episode 31: A 9/11 Story
Listen to Episode 31: A 9/11 Story Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: Mark Duffy worked in the World Trade Center for 20 years until September 11th, 2001. His son Chris was in school, just a few miles away. The two talk about that day and how they finally found their way home. PLUS, a new drink inspired […]
March 30, 2014
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Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff – Brooklyn Heights Power Couple Team Up for Bleachers’ New Music Video
Brooklyn Heights resident/member of fun. Jack Antonoff’s side project, Bleachers, dropped a new music video this week. The clip for “I Wanna Get Better” was directed by his girlfriend and fellow Brooklyn Heights resident/former Mr. Video III staffer/’Girls’ star Lena Dunham. Radio.com News: The clip has Antonoff showing off his acting chops (and his pjs) […]
March 28, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy” by Ian Kelly
Giacomo Casanova has a reputation as a debauched libertine, the model for Don Giovanni, someone who deserved a punishment…
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REMARKABLE INFORMATION! What We Can Learn from Leander “L’il Doodles” Weaver
Boy, what a week! Last thing I heard, planes had spotted debris in the South Pacific! Big deal! I…
March 26, 2014 -
Ken Radnofsky and Damien Francouer-Krzyzek play the third movement, "Christopher Street," of David Amram’s Greenwich Village Portraits.
I’ve been fortunate to know David Amram since my Bells of Hell and Lion’s Head days. Last month he presented a performance of his recent works at Le Poisson Rouge, a performance venue that occupies the space once belonging to Art d’Lugoff’s Village Gat…
March 24, 2014
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REMARKABLE INFORMATION! The Amazin’ Mystery of Artemis Kenyon
The Remarkable Mystery of Flight 370 – still unsolved as of this writing – has the world enthralled. And…
March 19, 2014 -
An Omnibus of New Yorker’s Tweets About the Homeless in the Subway
Last week we learned that homlessness in New York City “soared” under the Bloomberg administration. Last month, the city…
March 18, 2014