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• Wine and Dine Roman Style at CWD's Popina

  07-09-2017 21:40 via bkmag.com
  
  While the tiny, tricky-to-access Columbia Waterfront District may have supported some of the borough’s longest-running establishments (centenarian Ferdinandos, 15-year-old Alma, 12-year-old Petite Crevette), and convinced patrons to walk a mile from the nearest subway to wait two hours for vinegar cocktails and fish sauce wings, the neighborhood is anything but a sure bet for restaurants. TV infamy wasn’t enough to buoy Carla Hall’s Southern Kitchen, and though Andy Ricker may
  
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• Bombs away! Old Kosciuszko Bridge will be detonated Sept. 24

  07-09-2017 21:08
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperIt’s about to blow!The old Kosciuszko Bridge will be blasted into oblivion on Sept. 24, the head of the 94th Precinct announced at Wednesday night’s Community Council meeting.
  Captain Peter Rose advised locals not to drive that Sunday while the beleaguered crossing to Queens is reduced to rubble.The 2,400-ton center-section of the 78-year-old span was removed and shipped off on barges in July, but its approaches in Green
  
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• Welcome Pipsqueak!

  07-09-2017 19:42
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyClinton HillWelcomePut your hands together and get ready to shop at Pipsqueak — Bedford-Stuyvesant’s favorite toy store has expanded to a new location.Now, moms and pops don’t have to travel far to get those great buys and goodies for their kids. And it debuts just in time for the opening of school, for those necessary supplies, too.Pipsqueak offers a full selection of toys, books, and baby care items (diapers,
  
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• Watery graveyard: Local pol wants sidewalk along flooded street near Canarsie Cemetery

  07-09-2017 18:32
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA century-old problem has risen from the dead!Canarsie Cemetery honchos must build a sidewalk along one of the parcel’s surrounding streets to make it easier for homeowners and visitors to cross over a permanent flood there, according to Councilman Alan Maisel (D–Canarsie). The privately owned cemetery abuts part of the private Church Lane, a street that has been flooded with stagnant water for years because the city r
  
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• Rocks dug up in hospital dig will roll over to park

  07-09-2017 18:25
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyPark SlopeIt’s a Standing O for granite. During excavation near Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue, the site for NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital’s new Center for Community Health, about 30 large boulders were removed from the ground and donated to the Prospect Park Alliance, where plans are underway for them to be used in the Parks without Borders initiative.According to Christian Zimmerman, vice preside
  
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• Brooklyn woman celebrates making the century mark

  07-09-2017 18:25
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBrighton BeachIt’s cheers, applause and lots of b-day wishes for Ethel Berkowitz. The swinging senior turned the magical age of 100 last month and celebrated the auspicious day with son Mark Hunter Berkowitz; Jewish Association for Services for the Aged staff members Andrea Herskowitz, Naturally Occuring Retirement Community program director; Eva Kogen, and Sofya Dukler, and long-time friend and peer senior Leila Hammer. E
  
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• Our sit-down with Bay Ridge Council candidate Lucretia Regina-Potter

  07-09-2017 18:24
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn DailyRepublican Bay Ridge Council candidate Lucretia Regina-Potter sat down with Community News Group editors on Aug. 18 to discuss her campaign for the party’s nomination for the Ridge seat. The lifelong Bath Beach resident, who owns a tile and stone company in Bay Ridge, is no stranger to campaigning: she served as the Republican district leader of the 49th Assembly District from 2006 until 2012, when the district was re-app
  
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• Um, Acro-Cats, duh

  07-09-2017 17:01
  Something called Acro-cats, which involves a troupe of very well-trained housecats performing in a circus-like show, is breezing through Brooklyn this weekend and I gotta say that it sounds like it might be a must-do event. The first of six scheduled shows at The Brooklyn Music School this weekend is this Thursday at 8pm, and tickets are $25.The post Um, Acro-Cats, duh appeared first on Brooklyn Based.
  
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• Wind the week down, weirdly

  07-09-2017 16:55
  On Friday evening, banish workweek stress with a free sunset yoga class at Industry City starting at 7pm. Mats are available on a limited basis, and the entire affair will be set to a live DJ soundtrack. Afterwards, Filament at the Landing will be serving up post yoga drink specials (and we hear it’s a pretty great dinner option too). For a slightly weirder night, check out Frozen Words Hot Air, a free performance of live glassblowing, percussion, video, and manipulated recorded sound insp
  
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• First stop, Bike Jumble, second stop, Pig Island

  07-09-2017 16:38
  Park Slope’s biannual cycling-centric flea market, the Brooklyn Bike Jumble, is back at the Old Stone House on Saturday, so if you’re looking for a new whip or a good deal on a helmet, parts, or other bike gear you should definitely swing by between 10am-4pm. In fact, it’s an easy stop en route to the 8th annual Pig Island pork extravaganza happening in Erie Basin Park in Red Hook from 11:30am-4pm. Tickets aren’t exactly cheap at $75 a pop, but they are all-inclusive and
  
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• Hurricane Harvey relief, with a side of kickball

  07-09-2017 16:32
  On Sunday morning, bask in the back-to-school vibes and head over to McCarren Park starting at 10am for a good old-fashioned Field Day sponsored by the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn. You can register individually or as a team to compete in various athletic events like kickball, an obstacle course, tennis, running, and more. Participation is free, and you will also received a goodie bag and complimentary refreshments. Later on, you can put your money where your sympathy lies–with t
  
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• Join Bob Ross in the land of happy little trees

  07-09-2017 16:25
  Given the horrific state of national and world affairs of late, it’s hard to imagine who wouldn’t benefit from more exposure to happy clouds and happy trees and the inexplicably calming presence of everyone’s favorite TV painting personality, the late Bob Ross. On Monday at 8pm, Full Circle Bar will be celebrating Ross, who died in 1995, by screening old eps of The Joy of Painting and encouraging guests to create their own masterpieces while drinking themed cocktails and $4 Ste
  
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• Nicole Krauss and Rivka Galchen in conversation

  07-09-2017 16:13
  Fans of Nicole Krauss have been waiting a long seven years for a new book from the acclaimed novelist, so the publication of Forest Dark, which goes on sale on Tuesday and chronicles a journey made by two different troubled individuals to a remote Israeli desert, has been hotly anticipated. Krauss will appear in conversation with Rivka Galchen at the Berkeley Carroll School at 7:30pm on Tuesday evening as part of a program sponsored by Community Bookstore, and it’s a great opportunity to
  
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• How Can Acupuncture Help With Stress and Infertility?

  07-09-2017 16:10 via bkmag.com
  
  City life can be stressful at times. Life can even be more stressful during major life changes—and trying to conceive can be affected by stress levels. Short of pressing the pause button on life, how does one prevent stress from getting in the way of changing it?
  Stress is a response to demands on the body and mind. Trying to relax is, more often than not, easier said than done. We humans are animals, and the fight or flight response can kick in even in non-threatening situations. When su
  
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• The Brooklyn Mirage: Get There Before Summer's End

  07-09-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Nestled in an industrial enclave on the East Williamsburg/Queens border lies the sprawling outdoor event space The Brooklyn Mirage. Part of the larger complex known as Avant Gardner, The Brooklyn Mirage rises like a phoenix from the surrounding cement factory ashes. Filled with palm trees, wide open space and clean white walls, it is a welcome oasis in an area that at first glance seems to have nothing much there. The 80,000 square foot venue boasts an enormous dance floor, plenty of chillout ar
  
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• Photoville returns to the Dumbo waterfront

  07-09-2017 15:49
  Wednesday is the first night of Photoville, the spectacular free annual photography exhibit that takes over a pop-up shipping container “village” placed along the Dumbo waterfront from now through September 24. Now in its sixth year, Photoville will exhibit the work of over 500 artists, and has a diverse lineup of additional events including nighttime film projections, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, food vendors and a beer garden. Opening night festivities include a special p
  
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• Anti-Social Antisocialites: Alvvays On Their Sophomore Record

  07-09-2017 15:30 via bkmag.com
  
  If there's a difference between pop and indie pop—and to be sure, in 2017, that difference is quickly eliding if it ever existed—it's one of temperament. Pop songs are big, brawny, and brash, announcing their intent with the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Indie pop songs aren't as forthcoming.
  Neither are Molly Rankin and Alec O'Hanley, core members of the Canadian—and decidedly indie—pop outfit Alvvays. The pair are as warm and immediate as the music they make, tempered by
  
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• Yanks beat Cyclones in rain-shortened game

  07-09-2017 15:26
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperStaten Island 2Cyclones 1Sept. 6 on Staten Island(Six innings)Yankees pitchers Juan De Paula and Kaleb Ort allowed just two hits and one run between them, and the Evil Empire did just enough to hand the Cyclones a third-straight loss in a rain-shortened game.The Yankees got all their runs in early. With runners on second and third, Timmy Robinson grounded out to score Manny Argomaniz. After a wild pitch advanced Welfrin Mateo to t
  
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• Raunchy ride: Police hunting for man who publicly fondled himself on subway

  07-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperCops are searching for a perv who pleasured himself in front of a woman on a Manhattan-bound A train on Aug. 30.The 27-year-old victim told police she was riding the blue bullet when the creep masturbated over his clothes as the train approached the Hoyt-Shermerhorn station at 11:15 am. She then got off at Jay Street-Metrotech station and the jerk stayed on, authorities said.She managed to snap a photo of the man, who is approximate
  
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• Off the clock: Artist queers ‘Clockwork Orange’ images

  07-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carlo BosticcoBrooklyn DailyThey are lovely pictures for you and your droogs.The surprises start as you soon as you enter the multi-media exhibit “Queer as a Clockwork Peachfish,” now showing at the Trestle Gallery in Sunset Park. The name of the show and the artist appears on a crumpled sheet of paper, pasted up with measuring tape still hanging at its side. It seems like a work still in progress, but the haphazard look is all part of the desig
  
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• Filling Squadron’s seat: A primer to the candidates vying to succeed the former state Senator

  07-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s less of an election guide and more of a selection guide.The four candidates vying to replace former state Sen. Daniel Squadron as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer on the November ballot won’t be facing the voters in a primary, but potential constituents should still probably know who they are.Because Squadron’s surprise resignation, which was delivered via an Albany-damning New York Daily News op-
  
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• Bookmarked! Your guide to the Brooklyn Book Festival

  07-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne McShaneBrooklyn DailyThe borough is getting lit!The Brooklyn Book Festival returns next week to grace the borough with some of the world’s biggest thinkers and wordsmiths. The Festival Day on Sept. 17 will feature more than 300 writers on 14 stages scattered across Downtown, and the six days leading up to Fest boast “Bookend” events all over the borough. Faced with an enormous catalog of events, we have bookmarked 10 of the most p
  
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• Aid from above: City begins repairing tops of Red Hook Houses buildings

  07-09-2017 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’re razing the roofs.The city is starting to replace roofs of Red Hook Houses buildings this week, nearly five years after superstorm Sandy ravaged the neighborhood, the New York City Housing Authority announced Tuesday. And it’s about time, according to local leaders.“A lot of the roofs were leaking,” said Lillie Marshall, the tenant association president for Red Hook East, which is part of the public ho
  
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• New York Fashion Week: Rihanna, Future, Cardi B, Lizzo, more

  07-09-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The semi-annual New York Fashion Week is upon us once again, and with it a bunch of secret, invite-only, and otherwise hard to get into shows and appearances from notable musicians.
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• Roky Erickson played an all-13th Floor Elevators set at Rough Trade (pics, setlist)

  07-09-2017 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roky and Death Valley Girls play Rough Trade again tonight, and Jersey City on Friday before this weekend's Meltasia Fest.
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