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• No golden ticket required: Inside four Brooklyn chocolate factories

  30-11-2017 22:49
  Inside Brooklyn’s 4 Chocolate Factories, you can learn how cacao turns into candy, and everything you need to know become a certified chocolate snob. Photo: Meredith Craig de Pietro
  You can buy chocolate from dozens of chocolatiers in New York, but only in Brooklyn can you visit four different chocolate factories to see the magic in action. I spent the better part of the fall touring Brooklyn’s flourishing chocolate scene and discovered flavors and delights beyond anything Hersh
  
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• No golden ticket required: Inside Brooklyn’s four chocolate factories

  30-11-2017 22:49
  Inside Brooklyn’s 4 Chocolate Factories, you can learn how cacao turns into candy, and everything you need to know become a certified chocolate snob. Photo: usteredith Craig de Pietro
  You can buy chocolate from dozens of chocolatiers in New York, but only in Brooklyn can you actually visit four different chocolate factories to see the magic in action. I spent the better part of the fall touring Brooklyn’s flourishing chocolate scene, and discovered flavors and delights beyond anythin
  
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• Your December Kids Calendar: Bring on the cheer

  30-11-2017 21:37
  It’s time to throw out the Thanksgiving leftovers and jump right into the holiday season. This is the most magical time of the year, but also the busiest. Between parading down 5th Avenue to see the holiday windows, driving to Dyker Heights to see the crazy Christmas lights, and shopping your way through a never ending holiday gift list, there might not seem like there’s time (or money) for anything else. Yet, this is also the time of year for great performances and holiday extravaga
  
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• Make Friday night Wine Riot night

  30-11-2017 08:24
  Rabbit, rabbit, and what better way to ring in the beginning of the last month of this preposterous debacle of a year that with an event called Wine Riot, am I right? This traveling interactive wine tasting extravaganza has gathered together a ton of vino and loads of experts who will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about oenophilia. It’s all of the fun and none of the pretension! The booths will have crash courses on topics like the relative merits of oaked vs. unoaked, how t
  
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• Festive shopping and cookies make for a perfect December Saturday

  30-11-2017 08:21
  Well, it’s officially December, so no reason to hold back on your holiday excitement any longer. You can get into the spirit of the season big time this Saturday, at not one but two holiday markets, as well as a class dedicated to the high art of Christmas cookie baking. Looking for a slightly weird present for your quirkiest friend? Peruse the collection of taxidermy, anatomical curiosities, bizarre flair, jewelry, and other peculiar items at the Oddities Flea Market, which is taking over
  
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• Your guide to this season’s holiday markets

  30-11-2017 08:18
  Us mere mortals feel lots of things when it comes to holiday shopping. Spending most of December running all over the city (or the internet) trying to find that absolutely perfect gift for the people you love definitely puts the pressure barometer at “strong.” Unless you’re just an excellent gift-giver in which case…you’re winning already.
  As for the rest of us, we’re just lucky to live in New York, a city that definitely doesn’t suffer from a shortage
  
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• The best of Broadway in Columbus Circle

  30-11-2017 08:16
  Photo by Regina Mogilevskaya 
  Ok, hold up. There have been free performances of Broadway shows going on since November 13 and we didn’t know about it? How the heck did that happen? This Monday, fix our faux pas by heading over to the Time Warner building and catching free performances from the casts of Anastasia, Chicago, and Waitress. The show is on the second floor and starts at 5pm!
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• Director Don Hertzfeldt at IFC

  30-11-2017 07:46
  Don Hertzfeldt’s short, animated science fiction film World of Tomorrow was nominated for an Oscar back in 2015. In it, a young girl named Emily comes to face to face with her clone from hundreds of years in the future, and together they travel through time. It’s a super wacky, super fascinating little film that was actually inspired by audio recordings of Hertzfeldt’s four-year-old niece, and it’s currently streaming on Netflix for those that haven’t seen
  
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• “Ghostbusters II” at Brooklyn Bazaar

  30-11-2017 06:20
  In search of a mellow Wednesday evening? Head over to Brooklyn Bazaar for a fried chicken dinner and a free screening of Ghostbusters II from 8pm on. Sure, it might not be as great as the original, but I bet you haven’t seen this one in a while! Plus, it seems like it might be a good time to revisit a tale about a bunch of SNL alums saving New York City from an underground river of liquid evil. The film will be shown in the main ballroom, and the in-house restaurant and bar will be open al
  
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• Bringing back the lost art of the dinner party

  30-11-2017 06:17
  If you listen to The Dinner Party Download, you are already familiar with hosts Brendan Francis Newman and Rico Gagliano, their witty banter, their pop culture musings, and possibly their aversion to brunch as a social institution (which is something I share). If you aren’t familiar with their work, it’s high time that you got to know these two, who were named to Food & Wine’s “Forty Big Food Thinkers Forty and Under” list and have been judges on Top Chef Master
  
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