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• 30 Under 30, Class of '18: Myles E. Johnson, Writer & Critic

  08-02-2018 21:54 via bkmag.com
  Age: 26Pronouns: He/HimNeighborhood: Crown HeightsMost Likely to: Fall asleep in my bathroom with a book and my laptop after a night of hard drinking and dancing because it feels cozy and clever.Favorite Quote: “Language is also a place of struggle.” - bell hooks
  Myles Johnson’s words make people pay attention. With such a competitive landscape for writers, it’s imperative for writers to put pen to paper in a way that reminds everyone words have power. One illustration of
  
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• Friday night date with Oscar-nominated shorts

  08-02-2018 06:55
  On a chilly afternoon a few years back, some friends invited me to watch a double feature of that season’s Oscar-nominated short films (both animated and live action) and it was somewhat of a revelation. Before that, I had always snoozed through that section of the award ceremony and assumed you had to be an Arquette or Coppola in order to have any clue as to what was going on. Not so! In fact, you can watch all of the nominated works in just a couple of hours, and it’s hard to imagi
  
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• Booze, tunes, and food

  08-02-2018 06:53
  Class up your garden variety Saturday day drinking session this week by heading to the Brooklyn Expo Center for the Brooklyn Craft Spirits Fest. Tickets to either the 2pm or 6:30pm session will run you $70 each, but that includes unlimited samples of over 100 styles of spirits, from moonshine to mezcal, as well as live music and guaranteed good times. If you’re still standing when that’s over, you might want to consider a special Valentine’s Day concert, Songs Full of Heart, at
  
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• Watch Amanda Wachob tattoo at the Whitney Museum

  08-02-2018 06:51
  Well, here’s the bad news: all of the tattooing slots for artist Amanda Wachob’s Whitney event have filled up. But alas! There’s good news, too! You can still spend a lovely afternoon in one of New York City’s most beautiful museum spaces, watch Wachob tattoo, and probably get some really great inspiration for your next piece of ink (or your next drawing, poem, quick sketch on the subway, etc).
  For 8 days, New York City-based artist Amanda Wachob will tattoo 30 strangers
  
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• Get your Valentine’s Day fix on at Greenpointers’ Winter of Love Market

  08-02-2018 06:51
  The Greenpointers market you know and love has gone totally psychadelic! This Sunday, you can do all your last minute Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day shopping with a little inspiration from the lovesick 60’s. Enjoy hot mulled cider, live music, tarot readings, henna, massages, and a flower power installation booth, all while perusing the season’s best gifts from over 60 local vendors. Just remember—February is as good a time as any to treat yourself. And your loved
  
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• Celebrate Galentine’s Day like a pro

  08-02-2018 06:48
  Can we just take a moment and thank Leslie Knope for christening the greatest holiday ever? This Galentine’s Day, your options for a fun-filled night with your closest girlfriends know no bounds. Food-wise, you can get your dumplings feast on all over Downtown Brooklyn, or discover a brand new restaurant you can make home base for the next couple of months. Otherwise, you can head to National Sawdust for a “Mozart in the Jungle” Season 4 release party (tickets are $28 and
  
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• Lane Moore deals with Tinder on Valentine’s Day so you don’t have to

  08-02-2018 06:44
  Ah, Valentine’s Day. Intense pressure to spend an absurd amount of cash on ridiculous dinners involving molten chocolate cake for the coupled among us, and a brutal reminder of singlehood for everyone else. Either way, it JUST. A. DAY, so don’t let yourself get too crazy if you can help it. One way to keep things light is to laugh at someone’s else’s online dating debacles at Tinder Live!’s Valentine’s Day Special show at Littlefield. Comedian Lane Moore will
  
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• Hip-Hop Androids in Bushwick

  08-02-2018 06:41
  I’m still pretty upset with myself for getting shut out of last month’s well-reviewed run of Cute Activist at The Bushwick Starr, so I’m determined to get tickets to the theater’s newest production, which opens this week, before they sell out. The Brobot Johnson Experience is a solo multimedia theater piece by Darian Dauchan that is definitely the only sci-fi hip-hop origin story being staged in NYC this season. The performance draws from Dauchan’s existing hip- hop
  
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• 30 Under 30, Class of '18: Milah Libin, Music Video Director

  08-02-2018 06:38 via bkmag.com
  AGE: 24PRONOUNS: She/HerNEIGHBORHOOD: BushwickMOST LIKELY TO: Stay in on a Friday nightFAVORITE QUOTE: “You arrived like a day and passed like a cloud.” - The Pretenders
  Seeing the world through the lens of women is eye-opening. I not only mean this in the sense that we're in a time where more women are behind-the-camera—Ava Duvernay, Kathryn Bigelow, Issa Rae, Greta Gerwig—but also what that being behind-the-camera means and allows for. That being beh
  
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• Mastering sourdough at Brooklyn Bread Lab

  08-02-2018 01:26
  Brooklyn Bread Lab’s head baker, Assane Diop, teaches a breadmaking class that is as philosophical as it is practical. Photo: Nicole Davis
  It was foolish to think I was going to learn to bake a real artisan loaf in two hours. But the class I’d signed up for at Brooklyn Bread Lab promised to relay the all the tricks of mixing and baking a rustic bread by hand in one evening.
  Excellent, I thought. I can do this. Because it’s really just time that prevents the
  
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