Feb. 23, 2024 By Jada Camille
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce honored four community leaders at its annual Black History Month Celebration, held at the historic Weeksville Heritage Center on Feb. 21.
Feb. 19, 2024 By Jada Camille
Calling all creatives!
Feb. 9, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
The Prospect Park Alliance, a non-profit organization that partners with the city to run the borough’s second largest green space, has announced its first ever artist in residence, Adama Delphine Fawundu.
Jan. 30, 2024 By Ximena Del Cerro Gowanus is glowing, as a group of scientists and designers have come up with a device to warn residents of waterbody advisory alerts when too much rain and contaminated water from households mix in the Gowanus Canal. The lanterns allow neighbors to reduce their own impact by cutting…
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Jan. 23, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
The Brooklyn Museum will host “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm,” an exhibit displaying hundreds of photographs from the legendary musician’s archives documenting the rise of the Beatles.
Dec. 8, 2023 By Jada Camille Gen-Z’s childhood television crush and the penman behind popular modern R&B hits is moving out from behind the scenes and taking his rightful place at center stage. Leon Thomas III, a musical multi-hyphenate, serenaded a crowd of R&B lovers during his first Brooklyn show on Nov. 29 at Baby’s All Right, just a few neighborhoods over from where he grew up. The self-proclaimed lover-boy who started his career acting on Broadway and playing the goofy, musically-inclined Andre Harris on Nickelodeon’s Victorious, now spends his days writing romantic tunes drawn from real-life highs and lows….
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Dec. 7, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
An upcoming art exhibition in Red Hook will show illustrations of some of Brooklyn’s most popular watering holes through the perspectives of two different artists — Bill Roundy, a former Brooklyn Paper comic — and John Tebeau, illustrator of the book “Bars, Taverns and Dives New Yorkers Love.”
Nov. 14, 2023 By Bella Sanchez
Innovative artists have unveiled a 600-foot-long collaboration of murals on construction sheds over an affordable housing project in Brownsville, bringing together a diverse community and bringing color to the dull barriers surrounding the new housing developments until construction is finalized.
Nov. 9, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The sprawling lawns and lush gardens of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are set to be turned into a glittering winter wonderland with the return of Lightscape on Nov. 17.
Oct. 27, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is set to kick off their newest gallery exhibitions in Red Hook.