By Tina Barry
With the recent success of the movie "Sideways,"
about two men gallivanting through California’s wine country,
it seems everyone’s a wine lover. If you’re ready for a glass
of pinot noir, schedule a visit to W Restaurant - yes, the W
is for wine - on Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay.
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By Chiara V. Cowan
When Steve Herbst was a young boy living
in Flatbush he whistled all the way to school. After school,
he shut his door and whistled along to the sounds of Sergei Prokofiev’s
"Peter and the Wolf" blaring from his record player
while imitating the various instruments representative of different
characters.
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"Susan Homer: A Bird’s Tale"
opens at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Boerum Hill on Jan. 12,
with a reception from 6 pm to 9 pm.
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By Ajla Grozdanic
Emily Lime is walking up Bedford Avenue.
She is wearing black jeans and a long-sleeved black T-shirt that
just covers the blue zipper tattooed on her wrist.
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By Tina Barry
A new French bistro has opened in the former
Brooklyn Grill space on Atlantic Avenue. Before you give the
jaded "what-else-is-new?" eye roll, consider this:
Jolie has a true Gallic menu with escargot, steak tartare and
crepes suzette. Additionally, most of the bottles on Jolie’s
short, well-chosen wine list fall in the $20 to $40 range with
several excellent choices by the glass.
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On Jan. 13, the Brooklyn Academy of Music
will kick off the first of what it hopes will be many series
of visits by authors to its BAM Cafe.
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The Heights Players are taking the unprecedented
step this season of presenting a double bill: both parts of Tony
Kushner’s multi-award-winning "Angels in America."
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By Jess Wisloski
Red Hook preservationists were shocked this week when cranes on the site
of a soon-to-be Ikea furniture store gouged into a complex of Civil War-era
buildings on Beard Street, despite ongoing state and federal review of
its historic significance.
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images: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
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By Jess Wisloski
and Neil Sloane
Proponents of a planned park and commercial complex along the Brooklyn
Heights, Cobble Hill and DUMBO waterfronts have long agreed that to get
some green on Piers 1-6, the park itself will have to generate a lot of
green, in the form of dollars.
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