By Eli Rosenberg
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Williamsburg: Their geri curls may be wigs, but these rappers insist they’re the real deal.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Prospect Heights: Now you can lend a hand — while standing on your hands.
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By Daniel Bush
Williamsburg: Spoiler alert: in this adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” the star-crossed paramours live to love another day.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Williamsburg: It’s a fetish fest — but the only chains you’ll find are the ones attached to bicycles.
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By Will Bredderman
Awesome: Put on your beer glasses, and join the exodus into the most literary borough of them all.
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By Daniel Bush
Muscle-bound stars with names like “Stainless Steel” and “Wonder” will bend your mind with their muscles.
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By Will Bredderman
Books: Do what you love — even if its just sharpening pencils.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Music: Consistent for 20 years, these young singers have shared the stage with the stars and are performing in their home town this spring with relish.
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By Colin Mixson
Theater: There are scientists, there are mad scientists, and then there are mad-clown scientists.
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By Bill Roundy
Bar Scrawl: Our bartoonist visits a pub that keeps condoms, lubricants, and adult diapers behind the bar.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Williamsburg: An all-female acting troupe is challenging theatrical norms with its rendition of the classic Greek “Antigone.”
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By Sarah Zorn
Dining: The greatest minds of Brooklyn’s Japanese culinary scene are getting together to host a series of very special dining events.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Nightlife: Now you can have all of the fun of retirement without giving up your job.
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By Sarah Zorn
Foodie-in-Chief: Chew on this week’s most mouth-watering food news — including talk of a take-out Habana Outpost expansion.
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By Sarah Zorn
Photo by Elizabeth Graham
Photo by Elizabeth Graham
Foodie-in-Chief: An el Bulli-schooled chef is bringing bite-sized concotions to the spacious My Moon.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Downtown: The fourth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival showcases the county of Kings as a powerhouse for banjos and twang.
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By Daniel Bush
Books: Brooklyn-born Jewish big leaguers who helped shape the national pastime — and inspired baseball fans across the borough — recall their playing days in “Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words,” a new oral history edited by Park Slope writer Peter Ephross.
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By Bill Roundy
Bar Scrawl: Our bartoonist finds his go-to spot for drinks and grub on Prospect Park West.
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By Daniel Bush
Nightlife: Don’t bring your grandma to this bingo party.
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By Daniel Bush
Twenty-something partiers can’t get enough of the Underground Rebel Bingo Club, which hosts wild bingo-themed soirees in Williamsburg and Gowanus every two months. But Brooklyn still has plenty of high quality, traditional bingo contests for the purists out there. Here are some of the most popular bingo spots across the borough.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Theater: You’ll laugh, you’ll scream, you’ll cry — but make it quick because each of these plays are ten minutes long.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Fort Greene: The Irondale Ensemble’s new show brings the borough’s abolitionist movement to life — with surprising results.
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By Will Bredderman
Theater: The master storyteller had a father — and you can learn all about his guilt, affection, and resentment for that man in this one-actor show.
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By Aaron Short
Art: One artist transforms a Park Slope gallery into a laundromat while another converts a Prospect Heights art space into an indoor landfill with all the charm and ambience of Wall-E’s apartment.
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By Aaron Short
Art: Garbage has never looked this good.
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