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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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Maloya in Bushwick serves the food of Réunion, a tiny volcanic island on the Indian Ocean
La Réunion is a speck of an island some 400 miles off the southeast coast of Madagascar, a part of the Mascarene archipelago that’s also home to Mauritius and, politically, a “department” of France. If it’s known at all (I had never heard of the place until last week), it’s for its extremely active volcano, Piton de la Fournaise, its…
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New Bed-Stuy cafe Che stars one of the best egg sandwiches in Brooklyn
Adam Keita has been committed to creating community in this part of Brooklyn for nearly three years now, ever since he opened Daughter in Crown Heights. The ever-evolving coffee shop, wine bar and event space, as he’s fond of saying, is engaged in “a constant dialogue” with its guests specifically and the neighborhood at large. So although Keita didn’t really…
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