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Archive | November, 2007
Banner Teardowns – Hate Crimes?
The Brooklyn Eagle writes about vandals who have been ripping down banners posted on many houses of worship in Brooklyn Heights celebrating spiritual and cultural diversity: Brooklyn Eagle: …Hate Crime or Prank?: Police investigators are looking into whether a series of destructive acts involving the ripping down of ecumenical-themed banners from local churches can be […]
Cell Phone to Heaven
The Brooklyn Eagle reports on the unique swearing in service for the new senior minister at the First Unitarian Congregational Society: Brooklyn Eagle: The First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn and its new senior minister, the Rev. Dr. Patrick T. O’Neill, overcame an unexpected adversity on Nov. 18, the date of his scheduled Service of […]
Comedy Tonight at Magnetic Field
BHB pal Charles Star hosts another chuckle-packed evening of comedy at Magnetic Field [97 Atlantic Avenue] tonight at 8 PM with: Craig Baldo (Last Comic Standing, Late Late Show, Comedy Central's Premium Blend) Susan Prekel (Montreal Comedy Festival, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham) Joe Garden (Features Editor for The Onion) Sean O'Connor (Host of Here's […]
Giamatti Profiled in Esquire
He may very well be the most famous person living in Brooklyn Heights now that Norman Mailer is gone. Paul Giamatti sits down at Teresa's on Montague with Esquire's Scott Raab to talk about his new movie Fred Claus among other things:
Whitman Reading At St. Francis
This dispatch from St. Francis College: America’s poet, Walt Whitman, comes alive at St. Francis College, Monday, December 3 at 12:30 in a special event to recite some of his favorite work in his non-fiction work, Specimen Days. St. Francis students will read passages dealing with Brooklyn, war, and what it means to be human. […]
Bitter Oven?
There’s a feeling of rebirth surrounding the Busy Chef/Oven/UCG trio of eateries, as documented in the recent BHA Newsletter. A feature about the businesses reveals plans to expand to other areas of Brooklyn and into Manhattan. (Not to mention Zipcar members getting discounts in the Heights too!) Former Oven manager Chris Fehlingher, recently left the […]
Eagle: Hart Crane Hearted Brooklyn Heights
Sad sack poet/ Brooklyn Heights resident Hart Crane is remembered in this piece from the Brooklyn Eagle: Brooklyn Eagle: Hart Crane, Brooklyn Heights Tragic Poet: Completing “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen” and receiving a personal visit from Charles Chaplin to praise his ode “Chaplinesque,” Crane’s archaic yet lyrical voice emerged. As did a […]
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