Tell the Bartender Episode 37: London Calling

Listen to Episode 37: London Calling Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: When To Tell The Bartender: Anne Zander used to bartend. She gives some good advice about how not to hit on your server, and speaks from her own personal experience about the one time the tables were turned. It didn’t go so well. The X-Pastor: […]
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Family Party at the Transit Museum July 10

The NY Transit Museum will be holding a family party “Underground Summer” on Thursday, July 10, starting at 6…

NY Transit Museum: Nostalgia Ride to Coney Island

Want to ride in an old subway car? One with rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, and period advertisements? Ride…

June 25 Art and Mass Transit at the Transit Museum

The New York Transit Museum’s PLATFORM: Creative Musings on Mass Transit returns on June 25 at 6:30 pm. In…

Check Out The Fence Photo Exhibit at Brooklyn Bridge Park

The Fence, a photo exhibit featuring 40 photographers, opened last Wednesday at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5. It will remain on view until October. So while you’re trying to find a bit of shade (the tree kind) while strolling through the park and throwing shade (the attitudinal kind) as you sweat and dodge tourists in […]
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady” by Sally O’Reilly

I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet…

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Boy, Snow, Bird” a novel by Helen Oyeyemi

Race and sex should be easy categories to check off, immutable characteristics that everyone understands. But in fact even…

Tell the Bartender: Episode 36: Writing, Creating, And The Fine Art Of Getting Someone’s Name Right

Listen to Episode 36: Writing, Creating, And The Fine Art Of Getting Someone’s Name Right Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: Jeffrey Cranor, co-creator of the amazing podcast Welcome To Night Vale, talks to the Bartender about art, writing, performing, and what keeps him going. PLUS listener shout outs, Keith and the Girl and Citizen Radio shout outs, and a drink of […]
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Brooklyn Walking Tour Saturday (6/14): Homer Fink’s Hidden Brooklyn Heights Tickets Available Now

We walk again Saturday June 14!

BHB publisher/ LICENSED NYC tour guide Homer Fink hosts another edition of his Hidden Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour on Saturday (6/14).
Learn about some of the odd, weird, controversial and amusing history of Am…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics” by Daniel James Brown

In the early 1930s, the United States was deep in the Depression with millions out of work. Hitler gained…