• Plaza Swing Series: Regional de New York

    Wednesday, August 5, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaThe quintet plays traditional and original arrangements of Brazil’s oldest popular music – choro— with deep groove and a love for improvisation. The group features virtuoso musicians including Israeli flutist Hadar Noiberg; from Brazil. César Garabini on 7-string guitar and Vitor Gonçalves on accordion; and the swinging rhythm section of Kahil Nayton on cavaquinho, and Ranjan Ramchandani on pandeiro. Dance les
  • Plaza Swing Series: Nu D'Lux

    Wednesday, July 29, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaThe Funky Guajiros return with their unmistakable sound and energy. Incorporating Afro-Cuban and Afro-Puerto Rican vocal stylings, the Cuban Tres Guitar, Violin, Trombone, Trumpet and a modern-groove rhythm section of New York's finest (conga, bongo and timbales), the group is able to travel from the sweetest Son to amped up and funky modern Cuban numbers with astounding ease and dedication. Salsa Rueda dance lessons are at 6:30, band sta
  • Why Celebrate Brooklyn’s ‘Paris is Burning’ Screening Sparked a Fire on Facebook

    Why Celebrate Brooklyn’s ‘Paris is Burning’ Screening Sparked a Fire on Facebook
    As of today, over 7,000 people have RSVP’d yes for Celebrate Brooklyn’s screening of Paris is Burning, a 1990 documentary that... Read More… Read More
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  • Your Ideal Week: May 14- May 20

    Your Ideal Week: May 14- May 20
    If you are running in the Brooklyn Half this Saturday (and doesn’t it seem like everyone you know is?), good... Read More… Read More
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  • Star of stage and computer screen: Online cabaret reviewer performs his own show

    Star of stage and computer screen: Online cabaret reviewer performs his own show
    A Park Slope cabaret-show critic will swap his computer keyboard for the musical kind when he gives a cabaret performance of classic Don Mclean ditties at Union Temple in Prospect Heights on May 15. Read more.
  • Big in Japan: Williamsburg foodie dishes up sumo screening party

    Big in Japan: Williamsburg foodie dishes up sumo screening party
    Could sumo be Brooklyn’s next big spectator sport? Read more.
  • Make money from spring cleaning

    Make money from spring cleaning
    Does the warm weather have you thinking about spring cleaning? A website can turn your closet into cash. Tradesy is helping New Yorkers make some money. Amanda Skeadas lives in New York City and found Tradesy when she was trying to sell her wedding dress. She had no room for the $10,000 Monique Lhuillier gown in her one-bedroom apartment, so she sold it on Tradesy.com for about $4,000.

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