Last week the Brooklyn Comedy Festival filled Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s bars and music venues with top names in both local and big-time comedy. It was the festival’s third year to take over our […]
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Greenpoint’s Sexy Underground Cinema & Supperclub
Orgone Cineclub is a film and supperclub series organized by Mavi Phillips (Orgone Productions) and Nikki Cohen (This Place), hosted at Greenpoint’s Magick City (37 Box Street). Mavi’s a filmmaker, […]
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Weekend Music: Hook ‘Em Horns!
Hard to concentrate on telling you about Greenpoint shows, I keep re-playing Metallica’s new track on my speakers after what sixty years since their last release. And I’m not even […]
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Greenpoint Gallery’s 4th Annual National Juried Art Competition: $5,000 Cash Prize
The 4th Annual Greenpoint Gallery National Juried Art Competition is now accepting applicants. The winner of Best in Show in this national competition will receive a $5,000 cash prize and a […]
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Weekend Music: Those Who Seek Beauty Will Find It (9/2 – 9/6)
Recently this column discussed where to find comprehensive listings for live music in and around Greenpoint. We ran some contenders head-to-head and came up with a champ. This week I’ll let […]
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North Brooklyn Boat Club’s First Friday BBQ & Paddling Tonight!
This is the second-to-last first Friday event of the summer at North Brooklyn Boat Club (437 McGuinness Blvd.)! We always have a good time at their events, with a little canoeing and kayaking […]
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Your September 2016 Horoscopes Are Intense
There’s a lot going on in September, so read up. There are two significant eclipses this month. On September 1, there’s a solar eclipse in Virgo, which is heralding a […]
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The Mysterious Closure of the West Nassau Meat Market?
I suppose there are some Polish vegetarians, but not many. The Poles are largely a nation of carnivores and great butcher shops have defined Greenpoint for generations. No Polish butcher […]
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Modernizing Mozart: LoftOpera to Present a Saucy “Così fan tutte”
Was Mozart a feminist? Reading Così fan tutte, where two young sisters are duped into betraying their fiancés in a seedy ploy to prove all ladies are infidels, it might not appear so. […]
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The Sad End of Greenpoint’s Palace Cafe (aka Goodman’s)
The headlines said: “The Palace Café in Greenpoint is closing its doors on Saturday September 3rd after eighty-three years,” but whoever wrote those headlines was certainly no Greenpointer. Although a […]