The Brooklyn Public Library’s Italian heritage author series closes on Dec. 17 at 6 pm with a reading by poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan at the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza. Comment.

Claire wakes up every morning with no memory. Her son, Kenny, is dyslexic. And her mother, Gertie, has suffered a stroke, which makes her speech impossible to decipher. Comment.

St. Ann’s Warehouse is doing more for DUMBO than providing great entertainment. The performance venue is also filling its new neighbor at 5 Front St., the aptly named Five Front restaurant, with celebrities and theatre lovers. Comment.

When making your holiday plans, don’t overlook your invitation to this scintillating "dinner party." Comments (1).

The new front entrance to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum will be a sunny yellow beacon attracting families to the corner of St. Marks and Brooklyn avenues in Crown Heights when it is completed in 2006. The new entrance and expansion plans were unveiled by architect Rafael Vinoly on Wednesday morning at his design firm on Vandam Street in Manhattan. Comment.