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Booze & Books: NYC Lit Crawl Coming To Brooklyn For First Time May 19

By on May 12, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Bars, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Events, Hipsters, Literature, Uncategorized

The Brooklyn Lit Crawl beer-and-book festival, which stumbles through 13 Cobble Hill, Carroll Garden and Brooklyn Heights venues on Saturday May 19, 6-8 p.m., will comprise cocktails, trivia contests, book readings and special events along the way.

Venues include Zombie Hut (273 Smith Street), Knit Lit (253 Smith), People’s Republic of Brooklyn (247 Smith), BookCourt (163 Court Street), Last Exit (136 Atlantic Avenue) and the After Party at 8 p.m. at 61 Local (61 Bergen Street). Continue Reading →

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‘Bayou n’ Brooklyn’ Cajun Festival This Weekend In Red Hook

By on May 8, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Red Hook, Uncategorized

This weekend, the Bayou n’ Brooklyn Music Festival will fill the air with the sounds of Cajun fiddles and Zydeco rub-boards at the Jalopy Music Theatre at 315 Columbia Street in Red Hook. From Friday through Sunday, featured acts will include music & dance from Cajun Hall of Famer Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew (also creating Saturday’s Gumbo pot), Johnny Ace & Sidewalk Zydeco, Krewe de La Rue, Empty Bottle Ramblers and Offshore Aces. Stay until the wee hours for back-to-back bands and contests. If you’ve ever wanted to play rub-board with a band, here’s your chance.

The event’s assistant producer Deborah Monlux tells CHB, “It’s like a visit to NOLA followed by some Acadiana without leaving Brooklyn. Bring your dancing shoes!” Continue Reading →

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Invisible Dog Gallery Features Multi-Media Prune Nourry: Opening May 12

By on May 4, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Cobble Hill

Saturday May 12 is the opening date for New York-based, Parisian-born artist & sculptor Prune Nourry’s “Holy River” exhibit at Cobble Hill’s Invisible Dog Gallery. The launch takes place 6-10 p.m., at 51 Bergen Street.

The show features the culmination of a three-year project on gender selection focused on India, which was first offered to the public in 2011 at the Holy Daughters exhibition in Paris. The multimedia exhibition comprises sculptures, installations, photographs and videos, which will take over the entire ground floor of the Invisible Dog.

Included in the opening night exhibition: Dance curated by Simon Dove Continue Reading →

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New Eatery ‘Pok Pok’ Brings Adult Slushies To Columbia Street Waterfront

By on May 3, 2012 in Bars, Columbia Street Waterfront, Hipsters

Imagine the childhood joy of a 7-Eleven slushie with the grown-up bliss of a little compulsory booze amid the concoction. A new restaurant on the Columbia Street waterfront, Pok Pok, run by James Beard award-winning chef Andy Ricker, is serving up the delectable beverages, courtesy of a barrel-shaped rapid-cooling contraption.

“It’s very unique,” manager Ryan Domingo tells the Brooklyn Paper. “People drink beer on ice in Thailand, but not like this.” The machine is reminiscent of those in wine stores that utilize a salt and ice solution around a bottle that chills it to perfection in about 4 minutes. Continue Reading →

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Saturday, May 12: ‘Families First Spring Carnival’ In Cobble Hill

By on May 2, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Cobble Hill, Events, Food

A petting zoo, rides, merry-go-round, dancing and plenty of eats will highlight the 2012 Families First Brooklyn Spring Carnival in Cobble Hill, Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event takes places on Baltic Street between Clinton and Court streets.

Rides are $2 apiece and an all-day pass is $25, benefitting the non-profit Families First organization Continue Reading →

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Carroll Gardens ‘Court Street Brooklyn Festival’ This Sunday, May 6!

By on May 2, 2012 in Arts and Entertainment, Carroll Gardens, Events, Food

The annual Court Street “Brooklyn” Festival takes place this Sunday, May 6, in Carroll Gardens, from Union Street to 9th Street, comprising about 200 vendors. The event includes kiddie rides, live entertainment, music and more street eats than there are kernels of corn on a cob. The Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Continue Reading →

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Boerum Hill Resident Tracy K. Smith Wins Pulitzer Prize For Poetry

By on April 18, 2012 in Boerum Hill, Literature

Boerum Hill resident Tracy K. Smith has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her collection “Life on Mars,” which the prize committee called “a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.”

There was plenty for Smith to celebrate when she discovered the news of her award April 16: It was also the Princeton University Assistant Professor’s 40th birthday. Published by Graywolf Press in 2011, “Mars” is Smith’s third published book. Continue Reading →

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New York Mag Cover Story Features Carroll Garden’s ‘By Brooklyn’

By on April 17, 2012 in Carroll Gardens, Food, Shopping

New York magazine’s April 23, 2012 issue covers “Artisanal Brooklyn,” with a generous 8-page spread about the borough’s movement toward locally made edibles. The subhead: “A step forward for food or a sign of the apocalypse? And does it matter when the stuff tastes so good?” (Read the full story here.)

A secondary piece showcases Brooklyn’s best “brewers, bakers and beef-jerky makers,” and includes Carroll Gardens’ own By Brooklyn, at 261 Smith Street near Degraw. Featured is its Binxgoods Genuine Vanilla, with the descriptor: “How to arrive at vanilla extract as fresh and pure as Binxgoods? First travel to India and befriend a bean farmer. Then let your imported beans steep for six weeks in your South Brooklyn kitchen.” The By Brooklyn website is here.
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Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick Move To Cobble Hill Border?

By on March 24, 2012 in Celebrity Residents, Cobble Hill, Real Estate

Norah Jones, meet your new neighbors: Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are moving into a pair of townhouses in south Brooklyn Heights on the Cobble Hill border on State Street near Sidney Place. The New York Daily News‘ real estate guru Jason Sheftell reported late Friday that the family is closing in on a contract, after purchasing a Manhattan townhouse on East 10th St. townhouse two years ago that they never moved into.

The couple currently resides in a townhome in the West Village on Charles Street, near West Fourth Street, with their son James Wilkie, 9, and twin daughters Marion and Tabitha, almost 3. A source told the Daily News, “They loved the West Village but wanted something more private, laid-back and discreet.” Continue Reading →

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Daniel Radcliffe Films In Carroll Gardens As Beat Poet Allen Ginsburg

By on March 20, 2012 in Carroll Gardens, Hipsters

Now that he has finally shaken off Harry Potter, actor Daniel Radcliffe is ready to play some meaty grown-up roles, including the curly-headed lead in upcoming film “Kill Your Darlings,” where he is taking on beat poet Allen Ginsburg. With co-star Dane DeHaan, filming has been taking place around Carroll Gardens this week.

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