Jan. 24, 2024 By Melissa Fishman
Beginning on March 13, Brave New World Repertory Theatre will debut its 2024 Season with the world premiere of “Leni’s Last Lament,” a one-woman show about the controversial World War II filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
Jan. 16, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith If you’ve ever dreamt of placing a bet to claim a Federal wood frame in Brooklyn Heights or an Italianate brownstone in Carroll Gardens, now is your chance. Dumbo-based architecture firm The Brooklyn Studio (formerly CWB Architects) has released a deck of cards featuring iconic row houses from across the city as a way to raise funds for the Historic Districts Council. The set’s 15 watercolor illustrations of the iconic houses from across Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx were done by Brooklyn artist Diane Hu, and include ten Brooklyn properties. The Jack of Spades boasts a neo-Tudor…
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Jan. 11, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
The Center for Brooklyn History was awarded a $105,500 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to hire an archivist to help assist with recovering, organizing and increasing public access to the Center’s materials related to the history of Long Island.
Jan. 4, 2024 By Brooklyn Paper
New year, same great local coverage by Brooklyn Paper. On the heels of a year full of buses, businesses, bagels and more, we’ve compiled a list of 10 big stories you can look for in the pages of our papers in 2024.
Dec. 29, 2023 By Adam Daly
The countdown to 2024 is underway, and if you are looking for somewhere that is not Times Square to ring in the New Year, Brooklyn has something for everyone — whether you’re a night owl or an early bird.
Dec. 29, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
For more than a year, the Freelancers Hub in Industry City has given New York City’s many freelance workers a place to work, network, and access resources – and on Dec. 20, it debuted the PhotoHub, a new space for photographers.
Dec. 26, 2023 By Jada Camille
Comedian and former SNL sketch writer Nimesh Patel is bringing his latest stand-up special, “Fast and Loose,” to Madison Square Garden on Dec. 30.
Dec. 18, 2023 By Melissa Fishman
Fans of the Brooklyn-based crime drama series “Gravesend” have a reason to rejoice with the announcement of the show’s highly anticipated third season.
Dec. 12, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro Multimedia artist Suneil Sanzgiri has a message to share from a very personal perspective — colonialism isn’t over, and it’s happening all over the world – just like it happened to his family back in the 60s in Gao, India. His latest body of work, “Here The Earth Grows Gold,” exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, touches on anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the identities that are created from displacement. Sanzgiri’s work is a testament to his family’s legacy of resistance in Goa, an area that was under Portuguese occupation for over 450 years until its…
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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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