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Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food

Sunday’s Summer Space (Bow) Wows With Annual BHA Dog Show

September 24, 2012

While Sunday’s second Montague Street BID Summer Space event included plenty of recreational activities, with music, games, dance, restaurant & retailer goodies, the main event was without a doubt the annual Brooklyn Heights Association-sponsored Dog Show, which offered prizes for: Best Treat Catcher, Best Tail Wagger, Best Hairdo, Coolest Ears, Best Trick, Cutest Medium-Big Dog, Most Affectionate, Cutest Small Dog and Dog Who Most Likes The Judges.

The show not only prompted dozens upon dozens of canine entries, but drew a massive crowd of hundreds of enthusiastic onlookers on Montague Street, between Henry and Hicks streets. Your correspondent was consumed pawning his wares down the block during his coop’s (well-timed) annual sidewalk sale, so no news on the victors… but for the many that visited the neighborhood, it couldn’t have been a more perfect advent for autumn. (More photos below)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/48154

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Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events

2012 Montague Street ‘Summer Space’ Launches Sunday, 9/09

September 6, 2012

Reminder: This Sunday, September 9th, the Montague Street BID launches its annual Summer Space, with a fun-filled day of freebies. Brooklyn Heights’ main thoroughfare will be closed to traffic and re-imagined as a pedestrian oasis from noon to 5 p.m., as restaurants expand outdoor seating, retailers offer special promotions and services, and hundreds of tables and chairs line Montague Street.

The day includes opera by The Martha Cardona Theater; AfroBrazilian Samba Reggae by Batala New York City, an all women’s drumming band; Muzik by DJ Ricardo Campos; and dances by the Brooklyn Ballet’s Company and Youth Ensemble. Free outdoor yoga and Zumba classes will convene, as well as chess tables, craft-making demonstrations; and for the kids, a photo booth, scavenger hunt, hula-hoops and chalk drawing.

Summer Space will also take place on Sunday, September 23, featuring the Brooklyn Heights Association’s Third Annual Dog Show, from 1-3 p.m. (More here).

For the full rundown on Summer Space, take a look here.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/47180

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Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents

Lena Dunham: ‘Girls’ Just Wanna Have ‘Fun.’

September 5, 2012

Here’s a tip for BHB followers who adore celebrity gazing in the neighborhood… Brooklyn Heights’ resident and Emmy-nominated creator, star and writer of HBO’s “Girls” Lena Dunham obviously believes that girls just wanna have fun. According to Gawker, the 26 year old is dating indie rock dork Jack Antonoff from American band fun., whose Queen-esque anthem “We Are Young” reached No. 1 in the U.S. and the U.K. this spring.

A Dunham confidante told “Us” mag, “They’re trying to keep it a secret,” despite Dunham previously describing her love life as a string of “multiple gay ex-boyfriends.” The couple recently made a video for The New Yorker together, and Dunham has requested a fun. song for the sophomore season of “Girls.” Wow, politics and stargazing on BHB on the same day. Wowsah!

Read more about fun. here. (Photo: Gawker)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/47100

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Arts and Entertainment

Way Cool: Artist Jonathan Lopes Recreates Boerum Hill Nabe Out Of Legos!

September 4, 2012

The adult child inside me has always believed that Legos are the coolest toy ever invented, allowing limitless imagination… as long as those pesky kits are avoided. That was the idea behind New York artist and sculptor Jonathan Lopes’ recreation of his Boerum Hill neighborhood as a small-scale replica using nothing but Legos, which is featured on Apartment Therapy. Cool!

This isn’t Lopes’ first Lego replica. The New York Daily News profiled the guy last year after he spent four years and used about half a million bricks to build a detailed train scene that takes up 400 square feet of his living room. He also built a replica of the Williamsburg Savings Bank, 4 feet tall, out of 12,000 Lego bricks.

His Boerum Hill neighborhood comprises buildings that Lopes passes every day, including a flower shop on Hoyt Street and Firehouse Engine 226 on State Street. Every detail of his Lego-land is made entirely with the bricks, including storfront signs. He doesn’t cut or paint the blocks, instead relying on ingenuity to create effects like cracked and peeling paint using blocks with subtly different tones. See his portfolio here.

Source: Cobble Hill Blog
http://cobblehillblog.com/archives/7793

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Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food

Avenue Ardor! 38th-Annual Atlantic Antic: Sunday, 9/30

September 4, 2012

The ever-entertaining end-of-summer Atlantic Antic—which brings madness, music and playful mayhem to a 10-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue, bordering Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill—will convene Sunday, September 30, noon to 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation (AALDC), it offers 500+ retailers and pop-up shops pawning goodies, food, dancing, family fun and more, between Hicks & Fourth Avenue.

The 38th-annual Atlantic Antic is “much more than your average street festival,” organizers say. “The longstanding and well-loved celebration of a myriad of cultures crosses several historic neighborhoods and brings together a wide array of sights and sounds. The Antic is an exhilarating experience for the whole family.” Imagine: belly dancers, falafel, family sing-alongs and Homer & Mrs. Fink in their Brooklyn Bugle booth, all in a single setting.

This year’s theme is “Have it All on Atlantic: From the Waterfront to the Arena.” AALDC President Christian Haag declares, “In a year where Atlantic Avenue has grown exponentially, I am happy to say the Atlantic Antic has, too. Come again or for the first time and see why this is New York City’s greatest street fair.” For more about the Atlantic Antic, including directions and parking information, see here. The event will be held rain or shine (Photos: Chuck Taylor)

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46989

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Food

Smorgasburg Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park Starting Sunday

September 4, 2012

Smorgasburg, the popular food fest that has attracted crowds to the Williamsburg waterfront on Saturdays will start having Sunday sessions at the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park, at Water and Dock streets in the Fulton Ferry Historic District, starting this Sunday, September 9.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy provides this info:

Beginning Sunday, September 9, Smorgasburg will make its way to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Over 75 vendors will be on hand preparing everything from Korean barbeque and 10 layer Mexican sandwiches, to beer cookies AND cardamom marshmallows. Smorgasburg will spend its Sundays at the Tobacco Warehouse beginning September 9 from 11am-6pm and will be here through November 18. Be sure to come hungry! Admission is free.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46971

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Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn

Brooklyn Bridge Park In A Magical Time-Lapse Vignette!

August 31, 2012

Fantastic fun! A tilt-shift film shot in Brooklyn by German filmmaker Joerg Daiber. Below the jump, check out the locations in Brooklyn Bridge Park (heavily featured), Downtown, DUMBO, Brooklyn’s Main Public Library, Grand Army Plaza and Coney Island. Read details of the “making of” here.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46727

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Tonight! BBP’s Voter’s Choice ‘Movies With A View’ Finale Is…

August 30, 2012

The final movie in the Syfy “Movies With a View” series at Brooklyn Bridge Park, is tonight, Thursday, August 30, with DJs kicking things off at 6 p.m. at the Harbor View Lawn on Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The nominees for the public vote finale were: “Splendor in the Grass,” “Across the Universe,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Clueless.”

And surprise! (not so much). The winner is… “Clueless,” the 1995 hit teen parody starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash and (the late) Brittany Murphy. The movie screens at sunset.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46637

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Arts and Entertainment, Events, Food, Music

BHS’s Final Summer Beer Garden Thursday Features Indie Artist Sarah Dooley

August 28, 2012

This Thursday, August 30, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), will have its final Beer Garden of the season, featuring music by indie artist Sarah Dooley. The folks from Brooklyn Brewery will be there to serve their beers and ales, and to talk brewski. Shake Shack will be giving free samples of their “Brooklyn Blackout” custard. You can read more about the event and the artist here, and there’s a video of Sarah singing her song “Watching the Goonies at My House” after the jump.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46453

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Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food

‘Summer Space’ Returns To Montague Street, September 9 & 23

August 23, 2012

Coming up Sunday, September 9th and September 23rd, the Montague Street BID presents its annual Summer Space, with a bevy of fun, free events. Closed to traffic and re-imagined as a pedestrian oasis from noon to 5 p.m. both Sundays, Montague Street restaurants will expand outdoor seating and hand out free samples, while other retailers will offer special promotions and services. Hundreds of tables and chairs will also line the street.

The fun includes opera by The Martha Cardona Theater; AfroBrazilian Samba Reggae by Batala New York City, an all women’s drumming band; Muzik by DJ Ricardo Campos; and dances by the Brooklyn Ballet’s Company and Youth Ensemble. The Brooklyn Heights Association will host the Third Annual Brooklyn Heights Dog Show September 23 from 1-3 p.m.; local dogs may be entered to win from a variety of categories. (For information about the dog show, visit www.thebha.org.)

In addition, there will be free outdoor yoga and Zumba classes, as well as chess tables, courtesy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; Etsy New York Team presenting craft-making demonstrations; and for the kids, a photo booth, scavenger hunt, hula-hoops and chalk drawing. For a full schedule of events & more details, click here.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/46220

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