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REMARKABLE INFORMATION: Jus’ Gossip and a Gaggle of Giggles
For the past few weeks, Mr. R.E. Markable (thaaaat’s me!) has been like a boring Sunday school teacher: a…
March 12, 2014
Tell The Bartender Episode 29: SHORT! A Funny Thing Happened
Listen to Episode 29: SHORT! A Funny Thing Happened Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: Jen Collier is a comedian in London. Last week, she received this email about a gig: She tweeted it to her 600 followers and soon it went viral. 6,028 (and counting) retweets later, Jen joins the bartender to talk about […]
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March 11, 2014
Coney Island Brewing’s Mermaid Pilsner
A couple of weeks ago I tried Coney Island Brewing Company’s “Seas the Day” India Pale Lager. Now I’ve also had their Mermaid Pilsner. It’s good beer.Pilsner (or Pilsener) is a style of lager–a lager being any beer made with bottom fermenting yeast–t…
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March 8, 2014
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A Possible Life” by Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks gives his new novel “A Possible Life” the subtitle “A Novel in Five Love Stories.” These are…
March 7, 2014
Shirky Gives the Word at BHA Annual Meeting: the Internet Will Not Destroy Culture
A lot went on at Thursday night’s Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting, much of which is touched on in our “Tale of the Tweets” coverage. I have a few points about the business side of the meeting to expand on. In addition to the awards for “best diner” to Clark Restaurant and to Patricia and […]
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March 4, 2014
Tell the Bartender Episode 28: The Conspiracy of Silence
Listen to Episode 28: The Conspiracy of Silence Download From iTunes Here In this Episode: Mike Blejer was 11 years old when his au pair started sexually abusing him. After we hear his story, he talks about how common sexual assault is and why survivors are often hesitant to talk about it. The Bartender then shares her own experience with this topic, and why […]
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March 2, 2014
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Mr. Lynch’s Holiday: A Novel” by Catherine O’Flynn
Tempting as it sometimes seems, it’s impossible to run away from your life, or from yourself. But interesting things…
February 28, 2014
Coney Island Brewing’s "Seas the Day" India Pale Lager
India Pale Lager? I’ve long been a fan of India pale ales, or IPAs as they’re usually called. I like their intense hop bitterness balanced, in the best of them, by a rich barley malt flavor. I didn’t know quite what to expect from this lager offering b…
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February 27, 2014
Brooklyn Heights Cinema Launches Indiegogo Campaign To Finance Digital Projection
Brooklyn Heights Cinema’s Kenn Lowy has set up an Indiegogo campaign to help save the theater. No, it’s not to buy the building, it’s to help the theater convert from 35mm film projection to digital. “If we don’t make the transition to digital,” Lowy warns, “we lose the opportunity to show some exciting films. In […]
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February 26, 2014
REMARKABLE INFORMATION! The True Story of How an Olympics (almost) Grew In Brooklyn
I don’t know about you, but I generally think of the Winter Olympics as the Second Darrin of Olympic…
February 25, 2014