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…
May 18, 2012-
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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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Yikes! A Bed Bug (As In One) Found On Premises At The Carroll School
And we thought the bedbug epidemic had bitten the dust. But according to a notice sent to parents of The Carroll School Tuesday, the pesky little critters are still gnawing in Carroll Gardens… or at least one is. The Patch reports that a notice was sent home with kids alerting them that a single bedbug—yes, […]
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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NYC Bike Share Program: Cobble Hill Shunned Until At Least Spring 2013
New York City’s Bike Share Program has announced its citywide locations that include Brooklyn’s portion of 600 city bike share stations. If you’re hoping for a quick ride on the new blue “Citi Bikes” in Cobble Hill, forget it for now. According to the city Department of Transportation, which is sponsoring the initiative with Alta […]
May 13, 2012
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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…
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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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Heights’ Author Jennifer Miller Profiled About Novel ‘Gadfly’
Brooklyn Heights resident Jennifer Miller, author of just-published “The Year of the Gadfly,” is profiled on webbie Capital New York, which writer Yevgeniya Traps describes as “a buzzy debut novel set in a posh private school beleaguered by secrets and scandals.” The piece opens: “At 4 p.m. on a recent Friday afternoon, the Tazza coffee […]
May 9, 2012