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• Interview with 2018 NBCC Poetry Award Finalist Frank Ormsby

  14-03-2018 20:54 via bkmag.com
  
  For the past four years, the National Book Critics Circle has partnered with The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, allowing the students to interview each of the NBCC Awards Finalists. In addition to building excitement for the Awards Finalist Reading and Ceremony held at the New School March 14th-15th, these interviews have built an intergenerational bridge between the writers of today and tomorrow.
  This year, as part of the ongoing collaboration, and in support of the NBCC&
  
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• Interview with 2018 NBCC Biography Award Finalist Edmund Gordon

  14-03-2018 18:46 via bkmag.com
  
  For the past four years, the National Book Critics Circle has partnered with The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, allowing the students to interview each of the NBCC Awards Finalists. In addition to building excitement for the Awards Finalist Reading and Ceremony held at the New School March 14th-15th, these interviews have built an intergenerational bridge between the writers of today and tomorrow.
  This year, as part of the ongoing collaboration, and in support of the NBCC&
  
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• Food Fiestas

  14-03-2018 17:47
  Spend Sunday immersing yourself in comfort food at Brooklyn Bazaar’s annual Meatball Takedown from 2-4pm. For the price of a $25 ticket, you get to try unlimited meatballs prepared by some of Brooklyn’s best home cooks, who will be competing for your vote to be crowned meatball king or queen. Then, head on over to South Slope landmark The Grand Prospect Hall for a Vodka & Pickles Festival because, well, it’s about damn time those two items had a festival devoted to them. Ti
  
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• DJ vs Band? Decide at Party Crashers on Sunday

  14-03-2018 17:14
  Weddings and celebrations just wouldn’t be complete without music. If you’re planning a major event or your own nuptials, you can find the perfect band for it at our marathon music showcase at The Bell House this Sunday, March 18.
  Party Crashers brings together the city’s best pro musicians who perform at weddings and events when they’re not at SXSW or backing folks like Lee Fields, Norah Jones, Sufjan Stevens and Jay-Z.
  Doors open at 3:30, with a set by DJ Jame
  
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• Eat where a local eats: Eskayel’s South Williamsburg haunts 

  14-03-2018 14:43
  Photo: @eskayel
  Eskayel designer and founder, Shanan Campanaro, and her husband-slash-business partner, Nick Chacona make textiles, wallpaper and carpets out of their sun-filled showroom in Williamsburg (Eskayel, 75 S. 6th St., Williamsburg). The watercolor patterns might be inspired by their world travels, surfing destinations and love of nature, but the company is firmly rooted in Brooklyn. “The south side is still an amazing space, not yet overrun with Manhattan chains, big box stores a
  
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• Eat where a local eats: Eskayakel’s South Williamsburg haunts 

  14-03-2018 14:43
  Photo: @eskayel
  Eskayel designer and founder, Shanan Campanaro, and her husband-slash-business partner, Nick Chacona make textiles, wallpaper and carpets out of their sun-filled showroom in Williamsburg (Eskayel, 75 S. 6th St., Williamsburg). The watercolor patterns might be inspired by their world travels, surfing destinations and love of nature, but the company is firmly rooted in Brooklyn. “The south side is still an amazing space, not yet overrun with Manhattan chains, big box stores a
  
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• Top 5 most delicious Oscar winners of 2018

  14-03-2018 14:33
  If you missed the big Oscar nominees and winners in the theater, they’re now available to view at home. Though a word of warning: Once you watch the best pictures of last year, you may never see peaches, hard-boiled eggs, and hotel breakfast buffets the same way again. Keeping the meals shared in these five terrific features in mind, we handpicked recipes for the perfect food and drinks to accompany your Oscar movie night at home.
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• Tales from the adults in the room

  14-03-2018 14:30
  At Shit Show, a comedy night co-hosted by New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake and Ask Me Another‘s Ophira Eisenberg, the comics, who are all parents, divulge all the cringe-worthy, hilarious stories of what goes on in their family. Depending on your perspective, it’s like group therapy for parents or the best form of contraception for those considering having children. This week’s lineup includes another famous New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast, which is reason enough to go e
  
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• A Benefit for Parkland

  14-03-2018 14:16
  As we all look on in awe at the groundswell of political action that the brave students of Stoneman Douglas High School have set in motion, alumni from the school’s Classes of 2008 and 2009 have organized a great opportunity to show our support for the victims of the horrific shooting in Parkland last month. On Wednesday night, The Bell House is hosting Never Again: A Night to Benefit Stoneman Douglas High School, with appearances from a slate of amazing comics like Seth Herzog, Mike Birbi
  
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