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Purim Carnival at Congregation Mount Sinai Sunday, March 9

By on February 24, 2014 9:41 am in Brooklyn Heights, Events, Food, Fun, Kids, Parents

Purim is perhaps the most joyous of Jewish holidays. It commemorates the time when Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai thwarted the plan of the villain Haman to have all the Jews in Babylonian exile murdered. Your gentile correspondent once attended a Purim party that featured, among other things, a bluegrass band, and plenty of [...]

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Do You Want To Build A Snowman Or There Was A Snow Sculpture Contest At Brooklyn Bridge Park On Saturday

By on February 16, 2014 2:50 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Kids, Parents

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy hosted a “snow sculpture” contest on Saturday (2/15). Up for grabs for the best effort were various gift cards and ski passes to contestants in the “adult” and “family” categories. A trio of Park Slopers won the “adult” category with the Winchosters taking honors in the family group. DNAinfo: John [...]

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Weekend Update: Snow Sculpture Contest On For Saturday

By on February 14, 2014 3:08 pm in Arts and Entertainment, brooklyn bridge park, Events, Fun, Kids, Parents, Visual Arts

Word is in from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy that the long awaited Snow Sculpture Contest will be tomorrow, Saturday, February 15, at Pier 5 (near the foot of Joralemon Street) from noon to 2:00 p.m. Maybe the creator of the Promenade snow-person (photo) will enter. It’s all free, including hot cocoa and treats from [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on February 6, 2014 12:23 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Downtown Brooklyn, Events, Fun, Kids, Literature, movies, Nature, Theater

Starting tomorrow (Friday, February 7) the Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing for a limited two week engagement Gloria, a film by Chile’s Sebastian Lelio, starring Paulina Garcia (in Spanish, with English subtitles). The Cinema will also be showing Nebraska. Today is your last chance to see Inside Llewen Davis at the Cinema (your correspondent [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on January 23, 2014 1:37 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Events, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Nature, Parents, Visual Arts

Update: The snow sculpture contest at Brooklyn Bridge Park, PIer 5, will not be held tomorrow. We’ll update you on when it will be held. Saturday afternoon, starting at 3:00, the Park will have the first in its series of “Winter Talks.” This one, on “Living Aquatic Infrastructures,” will be given by Dr. Ido Sella, [...]

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Brooklyn Heights Moms Invited To Belly Dance Their Way To Delivery

By on December 31, 2013 10:44 am in Health, Parents

If you’re expecting, then the Brooklyn Heights Prenatal Group has an event scheduled you may want to check out:

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The Impressions Head the Bill for “Free the Slaves” Concert at Plymouth

By on December 31, 2013 12:50 am in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Kids, Music

Plymouth Church is known for its pre-eminent role, under the leadership of Henry Ward Beecher, in the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation declared the slaves free, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished the “peculiar institution,” slavery still exists in the United States, and, on a larger scale, elsewhere in the world. [...]

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BHS Family Sing-along Series Starts Saturday with Deedle Deedle Dees

By on December 30, 2013 3:11 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Events, Fun, Kids, Music, Parents

This coming Saturday, January 4, starting at 3:00 p.m., the Brooklyn Historical Society will present the first in a series of musical events for children from five to ten years of age and their parents, “Sing Back, Brooklyn! with Lloyd H. Miller.” This Saturday, Miller will be joined by the other members of the Deedle [...]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby

By on December 19, 2013 12:42 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Kids, movies, Music, Theater

Don’t forget Theater 2020′s production of “A Radio Christmas Carol” starting at 3:00 p.m. (doors open at 2:30) this Saturday, December 21, at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 19 Sidney Place. This is “Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic performed as a radio play, complete with Foley artist sound effects.” Your correspondent attended last year’s performance, and attests [...]

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Brooklyn Youth Chorus Sings in TD Bank Lobby

By on December 17, 2013 11:56 pm in Kids, Music

Young choristers of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus raised their voices in song today in the lobby of the TD Bank branch at Montague and Court Streets.

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While #Santacon Hosts Pretenders, The Real Santa Comes To Brooklyn Heights For Breakfast

By on December 14, 2013 12:50 pm in Kids, Parents, Religion

The First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn held its annual Breakfast with Santa event on Saturday (12/14) morning. Santa held court and heard the Christmas wishes from over 100 kids during two sold out seatings of the pancake breakfast. Santa had no comment about the thousands of over-served pretenders flooding the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn [...]

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