• Cookbooks to gift and get you through winter

    It’s cookbook buying season, and not just because of the home cooks on your holiday shopping list. This is the time of year we retreat to our kitchens and scour our shelves for the perfect Sunday meal. Thumbing through recipes and deciding what new dish you’re going to attempt is half the fun; the other is simply having the time inside to devote to short ribs and rising dough. We’ve learned a few new tricks from these 2017 cookbooks, and wholly recommend adding them to your col
  • Get your fix tonight at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    Author Jonanthan Reiss, who often wrote for Brooklyn Based a few moons ago, is reading from his acclaimed debut novel, Getting Off, at the Franklin Park Reading Series’year-end bash on December 11.
    Its anti-hero is a heroin addict whose hustle is doing just what the title suggests and streaming it online for men who’ll pay just enough to get his fix. Paula Bomer, another favorite writer of ours, calls it “a refreshingly dark book, with pretty much zero redemption for his charac

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