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• Live Jazz in a Bed-Stuy Brownstone

  01-03-2018 17:03
  Mix it up this Friday night by ditching the usual dinner/bar plans in favor of a live jazz fest and fish fry in a landmarked Victorian brownstone in Bed-Stuy, a neighborhood with a storied jazz tradition. The musicians who perform at BrownstoneJAZZ change on a weekly basis, but have in the past included Broadway greats and Blue Note recording artists. Showtime is at 9pm, and the intimate concert is followed by a late evening fish fry buffet. A ticket will run you $65, which is a pretty good deal
  
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• Beer Week Party at The Well

  01-03-2018 16:56
  We’re in the final few days of NYC Beer Week, and The Well is making sure that it goes out with a bang by inviting the folks behind five of the area’s best craft breweries to hang out, pour pints and talk shop, at a Beer Week Party that sounds pretty great. On Saturday, March 3 you’ll be able to try a diverse array of delicious beers from Fifth Hammer, Hudson Valley Brewery, Interboro, LIC Beer Project, and Other Half starting at noon, and the brewers themselves will participat
  
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• Last call for #solidlightworks

  01-03-2018 16:54
  Obviously the big art show to see this weekend is the David Bowie retrospective at Brooklyn Museum, but an equally important, and prolifically Instagrammed show, Solid Light Works, is worth visiting before it closes March 11. The sheer size of Pioneer Works makes it possible for Anthony McCall to showcase six of his gargantuan light installations, which beam down in its completely blacked out main hall. McCall first began this series of work in 1973, and describes them as a nexus of “sculp
  
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• Oscar movies and dumplings

  01-03-2018 16:51
  As Kate mentioned in her column this week, this is an ideal time to catch up on Oscar-nominated flicks, and Monday night, March 6, The Alamo is screening a number of them back-to-back. The 6:30 showing of The Shape of Water seems about the feasible after work, and is definitely the one to watch since it garnered the most nominations. Instead of eating in the theater, save your appetite for the soup dumplings at Yaso Tangbao, which just reopened after weeks of renovation.
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• A conversation with ‘Census’ author Jesse Ball

  01-03-2018 16:28
  Jesse Ball’s newest novel, Census, a hotly anticipated book by an award-winning author, is about a dying father wondering who will care for his disabled, adult son. He takes a job as a census taker and the two embark on a surreal journey across America, confronting their futures along the way. Ball explains in the preface that the book is a tribute to his own older brother, who had Down’s Syndrome and died at an early age, so there should be plenty to discuss when he a
  
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• Elvis Costello comes to Brooklyn Steel

  01-03-2018 16:02
  Barely three weeks ago, legendary musician Elvis Costello announced that he and his longtime band, The Imposters, will perform a three-night-run in North America before heading to the UK to kick off a European summer tour. The first stateside date is this Wednesday at Brooklyn Steel at 8pm, and there are somehow still a few $75 tickets available. Alternatively, The Bell House is hosting the 10th Anniversary edition of Slate’s Culture Gabfest, the podcast hosted by Slate critics Stephen Met
  
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• A tribute to iconic singer Nico on the 80th anniversary of her birth

  01-03-2018 15:19
   
  It’s hard not to be mesmerized by the German singer/model Nico. With her distinct statuesque look and monotone singing, Nico made her mark as a featured vocalist on the Velvet Underground’s iconic 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground and Nico. She only sang on three songs from the record, but they were also the most memorable: “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” “Femme Fatale,” and “I’ll Be Your Mirror.” After she was kicked out of the
  
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• Creating S-Town at RadioLoveFest

  01-03-2018 13:33
  If you’re one of the millions who binge-listened the S-Town podcast last year and became enthralled by the perplexing story of John B. McLemore and the Alabama town that was the source of his perpetual frustration, now’s your chance to get some additional behind-the-scenes info about the show. Host Brian Reed and producer Julie Snyder will be at BAM on Thursday, March 8 as part of the RadioLoveFest series, to discuss the groundbreaking storytelling methods they pioneered and share ou
  
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• Chicklet & Maleni: A Brooklyn Love Story

  01-03-2018 05:30 via bkmag.com
  
  PHOTOGRAPHY DP JOLLY
  I’d been thumbing through my Facebook feed, last summer, when I first came across a video of comedian couple, Chicklet and Maleni. Chicklet, whose real name is Steven Negron, had been attempting to stunt on Instagram with a bottle of D’usse. That the bottle was actually filled with Iced Tea instead of the luxury-lifestyle cognac was beside the point. The point was presentation and how—with the right caption, context, and filter—no one knows, or w
  
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• ‘David Bowie is’ at Brooklyn Museum celebrates the icon in spectacular fashion

  01-03-2018 02:05
  Photograph from the album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photo Duffy © Duffy Archive & The David Bowie Archive
  “Sound and Vision” is the title of a song by the late David Bowie from his 1977 album Low, and those three words perfectly sum up the essence of and contributions by the man. In a career that spanned six decades, Bowie left an indelible and lasting imprint in the worlds of music, film, art, fashion and video. His death in 2016 at the age of 69 still leaves a tr
  
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• Your March Kids Calendar: 8 ways to engage kids this month

  01-03-2018 00:31
  It’s hard to discuss a kids’ calendar without spending extra attention on the amazing work that student activists in Florida (and all over) are doing in response to the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The month of March will be the month that families march, whether in a planned walkout on March 17th or March For Our Lives on March 24th. This month I will be cheering on courageous kids and everything that they are able to accomplish with their honest, take no
  
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