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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

On Friday, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) will begin showing Stand Up Guys, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as a group of aging mobsters who get together for one last job. Throwaway factoid: Arkin was once a member, along with Erik Darling and Bob Carey, of the 1950s […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

This will be another musical weekend, with Mozart’s birthday coming on Sunday, January 27. You can celebrate that afternoon by attending the Grace & Spiritus Chorale concert at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, featuring Mozart’s “Coronation Mass” along with two more contemporary masses. There will also be performances Friday and Saturday evenings at […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

Much music, as well as live theater, cinema, architecture, and history, is on offer this weekend. Bargemusic, at Fulton Ferry Pier, foot of Old Fulton Street, has a full program of concerts, starting Friday evening at 8:00 with one in the Here and Now series, presenting works by contemporary composers performed by the Dorian Wind […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

This is a pretty quiet weekend for events locally, following the busy holiday season. Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry Street (corner of Orange) is showing Promised Land, a Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) film, starring Matt Damon, about the fracking controversy that’s a hot topic in Albany right now. Also at the Cinema […]

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Last Minute Weekend Suggestions

Bargemusic, at the Fulton Ferry Pier, foot of Old Fulton Street, has a full schedule of concerts over the next four days. Tomorrow (Thursday, January 3) and Friday, January 4, starting at 8:00 p.m., are two concerts in the “Here and Now” series, featuring works by contemporary composers. On Saturday, January 5 starting at 8:00 […]

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