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Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi bring their Burt Bacharach homage to Brooklyn
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Queer birding takes flight in the city
It’s 11.30 a.m. on an overcast Sunday morning and about 30 people, wrapped up in rainbow anoraks and sherbet-striped hats, are clustered by the entrance of McCarren Park. Standing in a circle, the group introduces themselves to newcomers — their names, their pronouns, and most importantly: their favorite bird. “We’ve been into woodcocks recently,” smiles one birder, gesturing towards their…
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19 things to do this St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
We’d make some kind of joke about the Gowanus Canal turning green this weekend, but isn’t it usually some kind of toxic emerald hue anyway? We’ll get to the St. Patrick’s Day stuff in a bit. But speaking of Gowanus (and for your best bang-per-buck this weekend), head to Littlefield on Saturday to see Wyatt Cenac and Donwill screen a…
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Rainy day Ramadan: Scenes from Bay Ridge on the eve of the holy month
On the eve of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, shoppers were out in full force on Saturday in Bay Ridge’s Arab American enclave, snapping up last-minute essentials: boxes of fragrant dates, small lanterns called Fanoos, strings of colorful star and moon lights, traditional red-patterned Al-Khayamiyya fabric. At Nablus Sweets on Fifth Avenue, trays and trays of special Arab sweet…
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At Lips Cafe, community is as strong as the coffee
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The team behind Nura opens Pan Pan Vino Vino in Greenpoint
My favorite thing, maybe, out of my many favorite things about Pan Pan Vino Vino, the new bakery-by-day, wine-bar-by-night operation from the Nura team, are the 1950s black-and-white party photos behind the bar of pastry chef Samantha Short’s family. “My grandparents came here after the war,” Short tells Brooklyn Magazine. “And in the Polish community in New Jersey everyone would…
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Matawana becomes Brooklyn’s first Black- and woman-owned cannabis dispensary
As legal cannabis dispensaries slowly open across the city, a new one in Park Slope has the distinction of being the first Black- and woman-owned in the borough. The Matawana Dispensary, located at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, officially became the sixth legal dispensary to open in Brooklyn on Thursday. Owner Leeann Mata is among the “justice-impacted individuals” that the…
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‘You’re gonna get wet’: Drag insult comic Bianca Del Rio comes to Brooklyn
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Altered states and role playing games: Your guide to Pisces season in Brooklyn
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Downtown Brooklyn’s historic Paramount theater gets a makeover and a opening date
The Paramount in the 1950s Downtown Brooklyn’s long-awaited Brooklyn Paramount concert venue announced on Thursday that it will officially open on March 27, with a performance by two of Bob Marley’s sons, Damian and Stephen. Other artists slated to play in the venue’s first few months include Guster, Mariah the Scientist, Belle and Sebastian, The Decemberists, Sum 41 and Brooklyn’s…
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