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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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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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