By Paulanne Simmons
Walt Whitman must be smiling. His beloved
Brooklyn, the borough that inspired his greatest work, is finally
giving poets the recognition they need.
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By Kevin Filipski
For our 20th anniversary season, we wanted
to do music that we liked," explains flutist David Wechsler,
a native of Midwood and founder of the Omni Ensemble, which has
brought chamber music of all stripes to enthusiastic Brooklyn
audiences for two decades.
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By Tina Barry
Miller’s Famous Restaurant in Borough Park
has undergone a radical facelift.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
On Saturday night, at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music’s Harvey Theater, theatergoers gazed starry-eyed at
actors Harvey Keitel, Bernadette Peters, Kate Winslet, Frances
McDormand and Nathan Lane. And they were just in the audience.
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By Paulanne Simmons
Dancers aren’t born but nurtured, often
starting from a very early age. And that’s exactly what Diane
Jacobowitz has been doing - with a little help from a roster
of celebrity choreographers - for nine years with Kids Cafe Festival.
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By Kevin Filipski
The fallout from 9-11 continues.
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By Tina Barry
Four-star, wunderkind
chef Thomas Ferlesch (pictured), most recently of Cafe des Artistes
and before that Vienna ’79, has opened his first restaurant,
Thomas Beisl, across Lafayette Avenue from the Brooklyn Academy
of Music.
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