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Partisan Records is the most influential label you’ve probably never heard of
The five members of Geese, arguably the buzziest homegrown Brooklyn rock band in years, were flooded with record label attention after they graduated from high school in 2020. They got very close to signing with Sub Pop, home of bands as big as Nirvana and The Shins, and 4AD, which made a name for itself in the 1980s with famous…
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MLK in NYC: ‘Down the path of protest and dissent’
Martin Luther King Jr. is most closely associated with the South. It’s where he was from and it was where he did his most vital work. But King was also deeply connected to New York City. He visited churches, gave speeches, appeared at the United Nations, met with the Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., and worked with the homegrown network…
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Winter Jazzfest and MLK celebrations: 19 things to do this weekend
It may be dreary outside, but there is music and theater to enjoy all throughout the borough (and beyond) this weekend. Winter Jazzfest’s incredible lineup is bopping across multiple venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan (catch us making a rare trip into Manhattan to witness the insane lineup for Donald Harrison’s Music Omniverse at Town Hall Thursday). The experimental Brooklyn-theater festival…
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The last voyage of the Schamonchi?
In the industrial flatlands of Bushwick, beyond a truck-lined driveway to a concrete plant, through a hidden gate and down a narrow jungly path you see it: a ship, four stories high and half a football field long, jammed into a little spur of the Newtown Creek. Standing on the deck of the MV Schamonchi, a former Martha’s Vineyard ferry…
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15 New Year’s resolutions for Brooklynites — and Brooklyn
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Beginning Wednesday, vendors will be banned from the Brooklyn Bridge
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Brooklyn Magazine’s top 20 stories of 2023
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Scenes from the 6th annual Kwanzaa Crawl
Brooklyn’s sixth annual Kwanzaa Crawl worked its way through the center of the borough Tuesday as upwards of 5,000 revelers gathered to celebrate, support Black-owned businesses, celebrate Black culture, remember the principles of Kwanzaa … and to party. “This is not just a bar crawl, this is a community,” said organizer Kerry Coddett, noting that the event took place on…
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This holiday season, give the gift of zipping your lip
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Out of Office: 22 Things to do in Brooklyn this Christmas weekend
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