Transit Museum plans Trivia Night January 17
What: Pop culture and transit facts trivia, with Stuart Post and Chris Kelley as MCs When: Wednesday, January 17,…
January 10, 2013-
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Opinion: Linda Stasi Has It Wrong About Lena Dunham
While Linda Stasi offers the sophomore season of HBO’s “Girls” three stars “if you’re 26 and live in Brooklyn,” the…
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Brooklyn Bridge Park Looking For The Most Fetching BK Pooch
Run! Catch! Post! Brooklyn Bridge Park is accepting submissions for its “Cutest Dog at the Dog Run” contest, for those who bring their pooches to the BBP dog runs at Main Street and/or Pier 6. One winner at each location will receive a $50 gift certificate to Wag Club. To enter, submit a jpeg pic […]
January 10, 2013
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Say No to Improv Everywhere’s No Pants Subway Ride
This Sunday marks Improv Everywhere’s 12th Annnual No Pants Subway Ride. It’s time to just say NO to it.…
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Cheeses Christ!! Waitress Gets Naked at Roberta’s, the Internet Reacts
A waitress at Roberta’s in Bushwick said farewell to the eatery on Friday by doing her shift almost naked.…
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BK History: Downtown’s Pepper & Potter Nash Auto Dealership
Following the January 4 BHB post that a Hampton Inn is coming to 125 Flatbush Avenue Extension (near Tillary Street) in Downtown Brooklyn, we relished McBrooklyn’s take on the biz that once occupied the space: Pepper & Potter Nash car dealership. McB notes, “While we remember the old car dealership as a rundown wreck of […]
January 9, 2013
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Farewell DieHipster.com, We Hardly Knew Ye
DieHipster.com the Brooklyn based blog started as “A place for real New Yorkers to vent about the invasion of attention starved, useless adults that we know as hipsters” has thrown in the towel. In a January 5 posting its founder said goodbye. For the sane and beardless, it’s a missive worthy of framing:
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Attention Stockholm – Here Comes Brooklyn Brewery
Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brewery will be expanding to Sweden by year’s end according to a recent blog post. The company plans a brewery in Stockholm as part of a partnership and exchange program between Brooklyn, D. Carnegie & Co. and Carlsberg Sweden.
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Friends Of Brooklyn Heights Library Offers Hart Crane Tribute January 9
The Friends of the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library is presenting “Dedicated To Hart Crane” Wednesday, January 9 at 6:30 p.m. at 280 Cadman Plaza West. The Chief Librarian of the BPL will introduce Prof. Langdon Hammer, Chairman of the Department of English at Yale University, who will give a short talk about Hart Crane, one […]
January 7, 2013
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Director Enjoys Ménage à Trois in Latest Heights Players Production
The Heights Players present Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife this month (January 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 8:00 p.m) directed by its president Ed Healy. It marks the company’s first production of a Busch play.
Healy discusses directing the play and its infamous ménage à trois scene in an interview with Local Theatre NY – watch it after the jump.
January 5, 2013
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