Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Foreign Gods, Inc.” by Okey Ndibe
One culture’s guardian deity is another’s objet d’art, design inspiration or kitsch. Objects that might be worshipped, cared for,…
January 31, 2014-
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REMARKABLE INFORMATION: Consumer alert!
Well, I’m back in Brooklyn! As you know, the United Nations Humor wing, The Federation International pour Le Cooperation…
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Tell the Bartender: Episode 26: Tough Crowd
Listen to Episode 26: Tough Crowd Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: Micah tells us about his most difficult heckler (and the life lesson in the bathroom that followed it), and Cecelia shares a short story about her experience with race relations during her time in the Dominican Republic. It involves her dog. PLUS, the first […]
January 27, 2014
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Theater 2020 to Present Candide
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional theater company, will present a fortieth anniversary revival of the Hal Prince version of Leonard Bernstein’s (photo) musical comedy Candide, based on the novel by the same title by Voltaire. The show will run for four successive weekends: February 14, 15, and 16; 21, 22, and 23; 28, March […]
January 26, 2014
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Engagements: A Novel” by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Diamond is Forever, so the tagline goes, and the real Mary Frances Gerety who wrote it in 1947…
January 24, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bridge Park Receives Award for Excellence in Urban Design
Brooklyn Bridge Park announced today that it has been named winner of the 2014 National Planning Excellence Award for Urban Design by the American Planning Association. The APA’s statement announcing the award says: Brooklyn Bridge Park has successfully integrated the Brooklyn waterfront into the fabric of the neighborhood by creating urban nodes at the park’s […]
January 23, 2014
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REMARKABLE INFORMATION: The Amazing Story of Jill Clayburgh and Papal Infallibility
I want to tell you an amazing tale about Brooklyn and a dramatic moment in the evolution of Papal Infallibility.
January 17, 2014 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace” by D.T. Max
With the exception of (or possibly because of) “Consider the Lobster,” I have been a little intimidated by David…
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Brunch Comes To Red Gravy
This yummy dispatch just in from Eater:
January 16, 2014
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So What Is Lena Dunham’s Brooklyn Heights Apartment Really Like And Who Just Moved In With Her?
Brooklyn Heights resident/Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is the subject of the cover story in Vogue Magazine. In the piece we learn that her boyfriend, rock star Jack Antonoff of the band fun., has moved in with her. And while she spends several weeks each year in Los Angeles working on Girls post-production, she […]
January 15, 2014
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