This is really last minute. This (Thursday, December 12) evening the Brooklyn Historical Society is presenting “Book Talk: Sarah Zorn and Brooklyn Chef’s Table,” in the Society’s Great Hall, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton), starting at 6:30 p.m. A fantastic panel of chefs/restaurateurs profiled by Brooklyn food writer Sarah Zorn discuss the borough’s deliciously [...]
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The Heights Players are opening their production of Big River, a musical based on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with a score by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. Shows will be at 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, at the Playhouse at 26 Willow Place. There’s more [...]
Theater 2020 Presents Two Holiday Events
They were a great success the past two years, so our Brooklyn Heights neighbors, David Fuller and Judith Jarosz of Theater 2020, are presenting holiday events (video after the jump) on two weekends this month. Both will be happening at St. Charles Borromeo, 21 Sidney Place. The first, on this coming Sunday, December 8, starting [...]
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 [...]
Theater 2020 Gala Looks Forward to Future Events
Last Saturday there was a gala benefit party for Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, at the Henry Street townhouse of Joe and Susan Broadwin. The theme of the party was “Gangsters and Molls”, and many guests showed up in appropriate attire (one wore his bathrobe, emulating the late Vincent “The Chin” Gigante). [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The Heights Players’ production of Twelve Angry Men premieres this weekend at the Players’ playhouse, 26 Willow Place, with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 and Sunday afternoon at 12:00. This now classic drama began life as a television show in the 1950s, was made into a movie (12 Angry Men) by Henry [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
It’s fall, and time for the Harvest Festival at Pier 6 (near the foot of Atlantic Avenue) in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Festival will take place this Saturday, October 19, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Come in costume to enjoy a pumpkin patch, face painting, volleyball, mask making, storytelling and more! Musical guests including [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The BHA Social events presented by the Brooklyn Heights Association, which began with the BHA Dog Show, continue this Sunday, October 13, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the world’s first Haagen-Dazs store, on Montague near the corner of Henry. Just print out this coupon (or show it on your phone) to get a scoop [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This Sunday, September 22 is the Brooklyn Book Festival (photo; video after the jump), “the largest free literary event in New York City.” It will take place at Borough Hall and the adjacent plaza from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., rain or shine. Possible thunderstorms are forecast, but with luck they’ll stay away, and plenty [...]
Theater 2020 Presents Two Free Short Play Readings Saturday Next
Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own professional stage company, will present a free reading of two short one-act comedies on Saturday, September 21 starting at 1:30 p.m. (doors open at 1:00) in the first floor auditorium of the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West. The plays are The Thrice Three [...]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This Saturday, September 14, promises to be a good deal cooler (high 71), and such a change in weather promises some breezes, so it should be a good day for the Kite Festival, to be held from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park. For those interested in more down to [...]
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