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Inside Second City’s first-ever New York outpost
Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! It’s a good time in New York — even just Brooklyn — to take in some live comedy. Union Hall, The Bell House and Littlefield are just three clubs clustered in the center of the borough that have…
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Quick Bites: Oden omakase, Roman pizza, jerk chicken tacos, oh my!
Welcome to our fifth installment of Quick Bites, a semi-regular roundup of all the local food news that’s fit to eat. Dashi Okume hosts an outrageously good ‘Oden Omakase’ on weekends through March One of two bowls of oden served during the omakase (Photo by Scott Lynch) Every day is a umami party at Dashi Okume, the shop within Greenpoint’s…
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‘Beauty in these differences’: Christine Alcalay weaves heritage into modernity
The Lunar New Year is a holiday of renewal and growth. But for Vietnamese designer and founder Christine Alcalay, embracing her heritage didn’t always come second nature. Alcalay moved to Brooklyn with her mother at 2, and as she got older, she often felt disconnected from her family’s cultural traditions. As Alcalay matured, though, she found herself naturally leaning on…
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A climbing community grows in Brooklyn
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Beloved Greenpoint dive bar Irene’s Place has closed after 44 years
Irene’s Place has apparently served its last $1 Jell-O shot. The Greenpoint dive bar, beloved by locals for its cheap beers (in particular its Polish beers), posted a sign on its window that it had closed after an “incredible” four-and-a-half decade run. The bar had already shut down by 10:30 p.m. Thursday night when the sign was first spotted by…
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André 3000 and Lunar New Year: 16 things to do in Brooklyn this weekend
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‘More united than they think’: Ayat hosts a joyful Shabbat dinner
The lines were as long as spirits were high at Ayat in Ditmas Park last Friday for a Shabbat dinner at the Palestinian eatery. You read that correctly: Shabbat at a Palestinian restaurant. Restaurateur Abdul Elenani and his wife, Ayat Masoud, for whom the restaurant is named, welcomed the local Jewish community for a meal to thank them for their…
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The Brooklyn Magazine Restaurant Week barbeque report card
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‘A disproportionately harmful impact’: City’s cultural groups react to the Adams budget
Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Last week Mayor Eric Adams released a preliminary $109 billion budget for the new fiscal year. He framed it as a good news story: He announced he was able to soften some cuts he had proposed in November…
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Loaded pizzas and fun cocktails star at Clinton Hill’s new Rosticceria Evelina
Evelina, the Mediterranean-ish restaurant from Ricardo Buitoni, Giuseppe de Francisci, and chef Lanfranco Paliotti, has been holding it down on DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene since 2017, serving, among many other things, a well-regarded charred octopus and a popular (and quite boozy) brunch. But if Evelina often strays into fine dining territory — Paliotti spent years working in the multiple-Michelin-starred…
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