By Alex Christodoulides
"So, I’m great in the sack,"
boasted Park Slope born-and-bred author Ned Vizzini to a capacity
crowd at the Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg last month.
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By Tina Barry
Smith Street doesn’t need another restaurant.
The block already has more bistros than one can find in a small
city. However, a restaurant that functions as a comfortable,
attractive room with an upscale diner menu is a novelty on this
block.
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By Paulanne Simmons
The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen,
whose realistic dramas moved away from the romanticism popular
in the 19th century, is often called the father of modern theater.
Now that we are firmly entrenched in post-modern theater, his
plays seem a lot less startling than they did in the late 1800s.
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By Tina Barry
Bouabid Gassimi (pictured at right with
co-owner Jeff Jdia), the original owner of the tucked away, hole-in-the-wall,
La Maison du Couscous in Bay Ridge, has left that restaurant
(now under new management at 484 77th St.) and opened another
cafe in the neighborhood, Les Babouches.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
This Saturday, Nov. 6, the Prospect Park
Alliance will pay tribute to New York Mets captain John Franco
at its gala fundraiser The Carousel Ball.
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On Nov. 6 the
Brooklyn Museum will host another free evening of art and live
performance. This week’s "First Saturday" lineup includes
performances by Flamenco Latino (pictured) at 6 pm and 7 pm.
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By Paulanne Simmons
Although "Bye Bye Birdie" is
considered part of the "Golden Age" of musicals, and
it is produced endlessly in youth theaters around the country,
it has never been revived on Broadway. That is all the more amazing
considering the show introduced some of our most beloved popular
songs - "Put on a Happy Face," "A Lotta Livin’
to Do" and "Kids!"
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By Lisa J. Curtis
The final weekend of the Brooklyn Waterfront
Artists Coalition’s exhibit of artwork, the "Solo Show,"
ends with an opportunity to get original art at a great price
at a Nov. 7 silent auction.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
In addition to performances by Tony Award-winner
Leslie Uggams this month and music legend Bobby Vinton in March,
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts’ golden anniversary season
will be made even more memorable by the dramatic renovations
to its home, the Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College.
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The MF Adams
Gallery opened in its new home at 111 Front St. in DUMBO on Oct.
15 with "American Vernacular," a two-part exhibition
featuring "Paintings in American Verse" by Alexander
Echo and "Snapshots from the American Dream," which
are found photographs from the gallery’s collection.
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Atlantic Yards: The most prominent activist group to protest plans for Bruce Ratner’s
proposed Atlantic Yards development, Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn,
is holding a fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 6.
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By Jess Wisloski
In the glossy-brochure world of real estate investment, where untouched
architectural details of brownstones are of greater value than the tenants
who rent them, it’s easy for dusty, low-end corner stores, or “bodegas,”
like Peralta Supermarket in Prospect Heights, to get swept out.
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By
Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: While Bruce Ratner continues to lobby New York city and state officials
and community members to support the plan to build a 19,000-seat Brooklyn
arena for his New Jersey Nets, city officials in Newark are lauding the
successful procurement of funds and municipal approval to build an arena
for the New Jersey Devils hockey team.
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By
Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: Despite boasts by Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner that he has purchased
an overwhelming majority of the private property needed to build a basketball
arena and office and apartment towers in Prospect Heights, The Brooklyn
Papers has learned that several of the largest property owners there have
not yet agreed to sell.
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By
Jess Wisloski and Neil Sloane
Atlantic Yards: Members of Community Board 2 are set for a fight at the board’s monthly
meeting this Wednesday over the issue of board participation in negotiations
for a community benefits agreement with Atlantic Yards developer Bruce
Ratner.
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