TGIF! It’s been a rough day; heck, it’s been a tough week. You get off work and feel like heading for the nearest bar for a tall, cool one. “But wait!”, that nagging little voice in your head says, “You need to relieve that tension in a healthy way.” If you listen to that voice, […]
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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
The weekend forecast is for temperatures reaching the high eighties and a strong possibility of thunderstorms. Perhaps not a bad time to take in a good movie. Your correspondent and wife had dinner yesterday evening with Our Friend the Movie Critic, who enthusiastically recommends Farewell My Queen, which is playing at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Tomorrow evening (Friday, July 27) the Metropolitan Opera will present a free recital on the Harbor View Lawn, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, from 7:00 to 9:00, featuring tenor Dimitri Pittas, soprano Danielle de Niese (photo by Chris Dunlop), and bass-baritone John Del Carlo, accompanied by Dan Saunders on piano. There’s no list of what’s […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Once again, the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) is presenting a tour of its historic building, designed by eminent 19th century architect George Post, who also designed the New York Stock Exchange. The tour begins at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. It is free for BHS members; otherwise $6 adults, $4 students/teachers/seniors, […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Around for what may be a very long, very hot pre-Fourth of July weekend? Keeping cool may be high on your agenda. Brooklyn Heights Cinema will be showing Moonrise Kingdom and Safety Not Guaranteed through the holiday (showtimes here). The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) is offering another in the series […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
In addition to tomorrow’s (Saturday, June 16) Atlantic Avenue Extravaganza, there are several other diverting (not in the subway sense) things to do this weekend. The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont street (corner of Clinton) tomorrow is having another of its walking tours, “Hiding in Plain Sight: A Walk Down Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights.” The […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
Tomorrow evening (Friday, June 1) the Brooklyn Film Festival starts at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema with screenings of Brooklyn Castle (8:00 p.m., Cinema 2, sold out) and Rose (photo) (8:30 p.m., Cinema 1, tickets available through the Festival website linked above). The Festival continues through the weekend, the following week and weekend, finishing on Sunday, […]
Tour BHS Building Thursday Evening
The Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will present a guided tour of its historic building this Thursday evening, May 3, starting at 7:00 p.m. The building, completed in 1881, is noted for its elaborate terra cotta exterior decoration, but its interior is also dazzling, including elaborately patterned tile floors, carved woodwork, […]
Colm Tóibín and Mick Moloney on Irish Fiction and Fact at BHS Sunday
This Sunday April 1, at 2 p.m. the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton) will present a discussion between Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn: a Novel, along with many other works of fiction, and Mick Moloney, Irish-American folklorist and musician. The event is presented in partnership between BHS and the New York […]
Last Minute Weekend Suggestions
There will be a concert of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, presented by Bach in the Heights, this Sunday, March 18, starting at 3:00 p.m. at Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, 125 Henry Street (between Clark and Pierrepont). More details are in Alexandra Bowie’s post in Brooklyn Bugle. The Brooklyn Historical Society offers two walking […]
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