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Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Steve Martin, Heights Players—Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Please

By on March 21, 2024 4:58 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Events, Fun, Multidisciplinary, Nightlife, Storytelling, Theater, Willowtown

So two guys walk into a bar—the Lapin Agile (“Nimble Rabbit”) in Paris circa 1904. If it sounds like the beginning of a joke, it is—or at least the latest play at the Heights Players. Picasso at the Lapin Agile, written by comedian Steve Martin, is up next at our beloved neighborhood theater. Come to […]

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Is Brooklyn Heights in 2011 Like Paris in the 1920s?

By on March 30, 2011 11:14 pm in Brooklyn Heights, Miscellany

Paul LaRosa thinks it is: HuffPost NY: Laugh if you like, but I’ve been thinking more and more that Brooklyn, circa 2011, is very similar to what Paris was like nearly a century ago. Of course, I’m talking about the brownstone belt neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Fort Greene, but […]

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