The New York Daily News covers the Brooklyn Heights Cinema’s successful Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for digital projection. Owner Kenn Lowy addresses the question on everyone’s mind – will the theater have to move soon as its landlord is looking to sell (for $7.5 million) or lease (for $30K/month) the building. NYDN: The theater […]
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Just in time for Opening Day, Yankee fans from Brooklyn Heights and beyond wax poetic about Captain Derek Jeter in a revamped version of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” directed by BHB’s Heather Quinlan. (Who would like it to be known that she is a Mets fan.) Featuring scenes from Brooklyn Bridge Park, Grace […]
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With “Flyover Lives” Diane Johnson, author of “Le Divorce” and many other books and articles, has added a distinctive…
April 4, 2014Hello, Princesses and Princes in this, the most Kingly of Counties! Ah, yes, if you were kind enough to…
April 3, 2014The 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:
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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 […]
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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) […]
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Giacomo Casanova has a reputation as a debauched libertine, the model for Don Giovanni, someone who deserved a punishment…
March 28, 2014Boy, what a week! Last thing I heard, planes had spotted debris in the South Pacific! Big deal! I…
March 26, 2014I’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…
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