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Erykah Badu set to headline Afropunk in Prospect Park next month
Afropunk is returning next month with superstar headliner Erykah Badu and a new location. The two-day festival, to be held at Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, will take place from August 24 and 25 in conjunction with BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Organizers said in a release that this year’s event is a “a celebration of the future of Black life,…
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La Flor on Classon is instantly one of Brooklyn’s best pizzerias
Giancarlo Villa, owner of the spanking new La Flor on Classon near the Brooklyn Museum, has spent a lot of years working in a lot of different pizza places around the city. When Villa was 18 he helped open Pronto Pizza in the Bronx, and then went on to pound the dough in spots you’ve heard of (Roberta’s, Upside) and…
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Caffe Panna, one of NYC’s best ice cream parlors, opens a huge outpost in Greenpoint
Caffe Panna, Hallie Meyer’s Roman-style “cafe-bar-gelateria” on Irving Place in Manhattan, was an instant hit when it first opened in 2019, with eager locals and destination ice cream fiends forming lines out the door for her constantly-changing selection of scoops, sundaes and affogatos. Just about every day there were new things to try here. And they were all great. It…
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MoMA PS1 kicks off its epic summer dance party series with queer nightlife icon Kim Ahn
For more than 20 years now the contemporary art museum PS1, so called because it’s housed in a magnificent old public school building in Long Island City, has played host to Warm Up, one of the best, most musically-diverse series of dance parties in town. This summer season kicked off on Friday night — it’s the first time the party’s being…
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A 15-Course, $100 Omakase spot opens in Williamsburg
There’s an omakase restaurant called Yoshino that opened in 2021 in Noho that’s supposed to be extraordinary. Dinner consists of 20 courses and costs $648, tax and tip included. It’s extremely unlikely you or I will ever be able to eat there. Last winter in Williamsburg, though, I ate at a place called Shota on South 3rd Street in Williamsburg,…
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African Arts Fest, ‘Jaws,’ and the freedom to dance: 17 things to do this weekend
If you’re not reeling from yesterday’s July 4th celebrations — or if you haven’t cleared out of town — there’s plenty for you to do around the borough this weekend. On Friday, The International African Arts Festival continues at Commodore Barry Park with a full weekend of dance, fashion and music. That evening, Lakeside Roller Dance Night Series celebrates the…
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‘Every flavor of gay’: Ladyfag is the Queen Mother of New York nightlife
Sometime after midnight on Saturday, the attendees of LadyLand 2024 were treated to a very special surprise. As Dashaun Wesley, host of HBO Max’s “Legendary,” introduced the judges of the evening’s vogue ball competition at Under the K Bridge Park, four of whom had recently wrapped up their own energetic LadyLand performances: Tokischa, Arca, Bob the Drag Queen and Sevdaliza.…
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Fourth of July 2024: 13 ways to celebrate in Brooklyn and beyond
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Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ block party and Fishbone: 16 things to do this weekend
Manhattan’s big Pride March on Sunday celebrates the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot with the theme “Reflect. Empower. Unite.” But you don’t have to leave Brooklyn to celebrate Pride, with events happening across the borough this weekend. We’ve highlighted some of the best below. Meanwhile, the Dumbo Dance Festival returns for its 23rd year this weekend. After their gala…
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At the Mermaid Parade, scores of sexy, scary, sweaty sea creatures strut their stuff
The temperature was climbing past 90 degrees on Saturday afternoon when the 42nd annual Mermaid Parade kicked off along Surf Avenue at around 1 p.m. Led by King Neptune and Queen Mermaid, the Mermaid Parade marks the unofficially official start of summer in a display of maritime mayhem. Since 1983, mermaids, mermen and mer-them have come from all corners of…
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