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• In Search Of A Better Blonde: The Bird House Salon Brings Color To Life

  11-01-2018 21:05 via bkmag.com
  
  PHOTOGRAPHY Sabella Kahn
  I don’t want to say that blondes have more fun, but when I’m blonde I do feel like the best damn version of myself. I’ve been dying my hair platinum for around two years now, but the color was always quick to fade into a brassy yellow. There had to be some sort of solution that would keep me satisfied with both my color and maintenance routine. Enter The Bird House, a hair salon delivering dreamy cuts and colors out of Gowanus. 
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• Resistance training, Tarot lessons, and hobnobbing with Bourdain

  11-01-2018 05:50
  There’s something for everybody happening this Thursday night in Brooklyn, starting with a fundraiser at Kinfolk 94 to support The Broad Room, an activist training camp for women who want to resist, persist and take political action against the right. The group has scored some great speakers for the event, including Cynthia Nixon, and there will be an open bar, live music, and lots of inspiring, motivated new friends to meet. Entry is only $20, and the party runs from 7-9pm.If you’re
  
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• Opening reception for Solid Light Works

  11-01-2018 05:31
  New York-based artist Anthony McCall has been creating massive installations that blur the lines between sculpture, cinema, and drawing since the 70’s, and his works have been shown at some of the most well-known museums all over the world. His pieces, which are oriented both vertically and horizontally and involve ever-shifting light beams projected into haze, are so sizable that they can only be displayed in a venue with at least 30-foot high ceilings, so the massive main hall at Red Hoo
  
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• A chef’s dinner and some top-notch comedy

  11-01-2018 05:29
  Saturday marks the inaugural installation of Industry City’s Chef’s Lab, a new Brooklyn-focused dinner series curated by Edible Brooklyn to showcase the talent of local chefs and the deliciousness of locally-sourced ingredients. On Saturday, from 5-8pm, Bonbite’s Winston Chiu will be serving up Chinese “pub fare,” the likes of which is sure to be superior to my average Friday night meal of pizza and/or whatever I find in my fridge. The menu promises geoduck birds ne
  
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• A very literary Sunday

  11-01-2018 05:27
  Sundays are for getting lost in fictional worlds. Who said that? We did! There’s an excellent lineup of readings at Bowery Poetry Club that you should definitely take advantage of this weekend. Start with the series Why There Are Words at 6pm. It features a wide arrange of poets and essayists, from Marcia Butler to Cal Freeman, and costs $10 at the door.
  Afterwards, if you’re feeling inspired (and you probably will be), there’s an poetry open mic hosted by Mason Granger. It&rsq
  
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• Free chamber music at Church of Saint Paul The Apostle

  11-01-2018 05:26
  There’s nothing quite like the right piece of music for the right kind of evening. On Monday, you can head to the Upper West Side to join pianist Margaret Kampmeier, violinist Anna Rabinova, and cellist Rupei Yeh for their free concert at the Church of Saint Paul The Apostle, starting at 7pm.
  If chamber music isn’t quite what your senses will be craving at the start of your week, you can catch one of the last performances of Winter JazzFest. On Monday night there will be an epic gath
  
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• Talking women’s rights at the Brooklyn Historical Society

  11-01-2018 05:25
  This year marks the 45th anniversary of women’s legal right to seek an abortion, and in order to keep the conversation present at a time when we need it most, the Brookyn Historical Society is celebrating with a talk called “45 Years after Roe v. Wade.” Your $10 admission will get you front and center with Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Rebecca Traister of New York magazine, and Katha Pollitt, author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion
  
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• Free screening of High Maintenance Season 2 premiere

  11-01-2018 05:16
  If you’re part of the cult following for High Maintenance, HBO’s anthology series of eclectic stories that are loosely tied together by one Brooklyn-based weed dealer, you are probably already aware that the show’s much-awaited second season premieres on TV next Sunday night. What you might NOT know, however, is that you can get a jump on everyone by attending a free screening of the first episode of the new season at the Alamo Drafthouse on Wednesday night at 7pm. You can regi
  
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