By Tina Barry
What is a Vinotheque? If I base my definition
on W Vinotheque in Sheepshead Bay, I’d say it’s an attractive
restaurant-supper club with an impressive wine list (the W stands
for wine), a so-so menu and a somber ambience.
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By Paulanne Simmons
The 18th century had Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The 20th century had Clare Boothe Luce. Both playwrights excelled
at comic ridicule of the upper class. This season the Gallery
Players played tribute to Sheridan with an excellent production
of "The School for Scandal." Unfortunately, the Heights
Players, despite a few exceptional performances, don’t do quite
as well with Luce’s "The Women," which plays through
April 17.
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By Paulanne Simmons
Kings County Shakespeare Company’s home
space, Founders Hall at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights,
may still be under renovation, but that hasn’t stopped the company
from mounting its first production of the 2005 season: a double
bill of Terry Quinn’s verse adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne
short story, "Rappacini’s Daughter," and Quinn’s own
"Bad Evidence."
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By Lisa J. Curtis
At long last, director Agnes Jaoui’s second
film, "Look At Me," which received a warm welcome when
it opened the New York Film Festival last fall, is being screened
in Brooklyn.
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By Kevin Filipski
Jean-Luc Godard’s prominence in film history
is assured but problematic.
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By Tina Barry
For some chefs, making their own pizza
sauce is a big deal. For Michael Ayoub (pictured), the chef and
owner of Fornino ("little oven") in Williamsburg, growing
vegetables and herbs for the pizza’s topping in his restaurant’s
own greenhouse is part of the job.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
With two floors of exhibition space showcasing more than 100
works by his hand, the Brooklyn Museum’s latest show is a moving
tribute to one of the borough’s most famous sons, Jean-Michel
Basquiat.
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By Paulanne Simmons
In the Narrows Community Theater production
of "Anything Goes," there are many actors one would
not find in a Broadway musical. There are old people and young
people, thin actors and heavy actors, folks who have impressive
resumes and those who have little experience. But thanks to director-choreographer
John Sheridan’s wonderful navigation, this "Anything Goes"
sets sail on balmy seas and rides the crest to arrive safely
at port.
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By Jess Wisloski
A group of exiled Brooklyn Heights residents is seething now that their
former neighborhood association is trying to preserve the former candy
factory from which they were evicted over the past year.
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By Jess Wisloski
A Boerum Hill community garden that survived for decades on little more
than silver bells and cockleshells is now in the crosshairs of a battle
between the neighbors who planted it and the church that owns it.
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By Jess Wisloski
Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz has hosted another closed-door meeting
about developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal, continuing
his policy of shutting out community members who have prominently voiced
opposition to the plan to build a basketball arena as well as 17 residential
and office high-rise towers.
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By Jess Wisloski
Brooklyn’s real estate boom has reached a new plateau — the
$1,000-a-square-foot condominium apartment.
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By Jess Wisloski
A top official with a German shipping company that took its $1.6 billion
trade deal to New Jersey after first considering Brooklyn’s port,
said this week that the decision came down to the city’s refusal
to back the Red Hook port’s existence.
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