Just what Riverdale High needs – Lena Dunham re-imagining Betty and Veronica. It was announced this week that Archie comics has retained the ‘Girls’ creator to pen a 4 issue story arc due out next year.
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Brooklyn Heights Resident Lena Dunham Is Hosting Saturday Night Live This Weekend
“Girls” creator/star/Brooklyn Heights resident Lena Dunham will be hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. The National will be the musical guest, making the show quite Brooklyn-centric. Earlier this season, SNL parodied Dunham’s HBO series: Thank you for the SNL love. Dream come true. Can't wait to debut my character "girl who googled serial killers all […]
Spike Lee Rants About Private Schools And Brooklyn Heights In Pratt Appearance
In case you’ve been off the social media for the last few hours, filmmaker Spike Lee appeared at Pratt Institute and went on an epic rant last night about gentrification in Brooklyn. NY Mag has transcribed the whole thing, and Gothamist’s Jake Dobkin has also weighed in. What did he say about Brooklyn Heights? NYMag: […]
Brooklyn Heights Resident Lena Dunham’s Full Frontal Assault On Woody Allen
Lena Dunham had some things to say about Woody Allen this week on Twitter.
So What Is Lena Dunham’s Brooklyn Heights Apartment Really Like And Who Just Moved In With Her?
Brooklyn Heights resident/Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is the subject of the cover story in Vogue Magazine. In the piece we learn that her boyfriend, rock star Jack Antonoff of the band fun., has moved in with her. And while she spends several weeks each year in Los Angeles working on Girls post-production, she […]
Celebrity Love Brooklyn Heights Style
After her Brooklyn Heights home was broken into earlier this month, it was revealed that actress Keri Russell had separated from her husband Shane Deary. Now comes word that she’s been spotted in the neighborhood with her co-star in The Americans Matthew Rhys:
Lena Dunham And Her Mother Honored At Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Heights resident Lena Dunham and her mother Laurie Simmons were honored for their contributions in “the visual arts” Thursday at the Brooklyn Museum. The luncheon was held to celebrate Women in the Arts.
Brooklyn Heights Resident Diane Ravitch: Five Things Mayor de Blasio Should Do About Education
The election of Bill de Blasio as mayor of New York is a “major setback” for the polices of Mike Bloomberg and George W. Bush says author/Brooklyn Heights resident Diane Ravitch in a new blog post. Saying that, de Blasio “understands the failure of the Bloomberg education policies,” she outlines 5 things the new mayor […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing 12 Years a Slave, director Steve McQueen’s drama about a free African American New Yorker kidnapped and sold into slavery, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender, and with a cast including Heights resident Paul Giamatti. The Cinema is also showing Robert Redford’s All Is Lost, in which he […]
Ravitch, Silver Represent Brooklyn Heights On The Daily Show
Last week, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show welcomed two guests (on different nights) who live in the Brooklyn Heights area. BHB Ten 2010 member Diane Ravitch appeared to discuss her new book Reign Of Error. While Silver, who has taken his fivethirtyeight.com to ABC/ESPN, appeared in a segment with Al Madrigal about gays in […]
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