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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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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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