No Words Daily Pix: Photograph by Hugh Crawford
March 18: Blarneypalooza/March 22: Poets for Haiti at Stone House
Take note of two special events at the Old Stone House on March 18th and March 22nd.
BLARNEYPALOOZA: On Thursday, March 18th at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents Blarneypalooza, a literary celebration of Irish writers, music and influence planned with Saint Patrick’s Day in mind. Donation: $5
Ann Beirne, Jill Eisenstadt, Barbara O’Dair, David Freiman, Greg Fuchs, Patrick Brian Smith, and Michele Madigan Somerville.will read/perform at the historic Old Stone House in Washington Park on Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope.
POETS FOR HAITI: On Monday, March 22 at 8PM at the Old Stone House, Louise Crawford and Michele Madigan Somerville present POETS FOR HAITI, an entertaining and inspiring event designed to raise funds for relief efforts in Haiti.
Poets/performers Sharon Mesmer, Joanna Sit, Wanda Phipps, Roy Nathanson, Bill Evans, Ellen Ferguson, Christopher Stackhouse and more will performa the Old Stone House in Washington Park in Park Slope (Fifth Avenue and Third Street). Donation $10. for Doctors Without Borders.
Efrain Gonzalez: First Flowers
Park Slope’s Kim Maier, One of 31 “Extraordinary Women”
Kim Maier, Executive Director of the Old Stone House, was selected as one of 31 Extraordinary Women honored yesterday by Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes as he announced the recipients of his fourth annual Extraordinary Women’s event.
“These exceptional women serve as role models because of their selflessness, dedication and compassion”, Hynes told the crowd. “It is an honor for me to recognize these women for their outstanding work, which benefits the people of Brooklyn.”
To each of the 31 women, Hynes bestowed the title of Special Ambassador to their communities. “The women come from neighborhoods all throughout Brooklyn. The honorees all have one thing in common,” said District Attorney Hynes. “They make Brooklyn a better place to live.”
The 31 Extraordinary Women are: Oraia Reid (Boerum Hill), Paula Shirk (Brooklyn Heights), Christine Moore Vassallo (Boerum Hill), Wai Po Tsang (Sheepshead Bay), Aqila Norris (Bedford Stuyvesant), Laurie Windsor (Bath Beach), Chaya Lipschutz (Borough Park), Suzelle Charles Augustin (Old Mill Basin), Sherif Fraser (East Flatbush), Linda Sarsour (Bay Ridge), Mary D. Allen (East New York), Kathleen Snow (Marine Park), Kimberly Maier (Park Slope), Jodie Reznik (Flatbush), Jeanne B. Lambert (Flatbush), Megan Kerrigan (Mapleton), E. Colleen Golden (Bay Ridge), Victoria Aviles (Boerum Hill), Elisabeth Stock (Park Slope), Patricia Reddock (East Flatbush), Dale Mc Reynolds (Sheepshead Bay), Candice Anderson (Park Slope), Renee Flowers (Gowanus), Ismay Griffith (Canarsie), Amy Cohen (Carroll Gardens), Bazay Roohi (Coney Island), Margarette D. Tropnas (East Flatbush), Nancy Carbone (Red Hook), Margaret Cusack (Boerum Hill), Deb Howard (Fort Greene), and Laurel O. Fraser (East Flatbush).
Spring Forward: Daylight Savings Time Begins Sunday
On Sunday, March 14, 2010 Daylight Saving Time goes into effect. Reset your clocks one hour ahead. The time change goes into effect at 2:00 AM.
Current Weather in Park Slope
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The Weekend List: Battlefields, Moonlighters & Dysfunctional Forests
FILM
–Alice in Wonderland, The Ghost Writer, Shutter Island at BAM.
–Also at BAM on Friday, March 12 at 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm: A Place in the Sun (1951) directed by George Stevens with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters. George Stevens takes on Theodore Dreiser’s monumental opus An American Tragedy in this adaptation featuring Clift in one of his defining roles: an ambitious social climber caught between his pregnant, working class girlfriend (Winters) and a wealthy socialite (Taylor). Each in their prime, Clift and Taylor’s chemistry and beauty are captured in Stevens’ electrifying, erotically-charged close-ups.
MUSIC
–Friday at 9PM at the BAM Cafe: “A powerful performer” (The New York Times), jazz vocalist Elisabeth Lohninger trades conventional standards for more modern fare, lending her minimalist alto to songs by The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and others for a series of brilliant, less-is-more re-imaginings.
–Friday at 10 PM at Barbes: Gorgeous vocal harmonies interwoven with guitar and ukulele, the Moonlighters are as comfortable with classic Hawaiian melodies as they are innovative with their original songwriting.
–Saturday at 8:30 at the Jewish Music Cafe: Kol Dodi and the 7 ft. bassist, Jootsy Szaba
ART
–Mary Ting, Excerpts from the Dysfunctional Forest at Kentler International in Red Hook through March 28th
–Battlefields, the first New York solo exhibition by Nebojsa Seric-Shoba. Taken over a 10 year period (from 1999 to 2009), the featured photographic works, documentations of actual battlefields, call into question the autonomy of “place:” the disparity that exists between historical events and the geographic locations in which they occur. Dumbo Arts Center through April 25th
THEATER
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Old Stone House: The Crucible directed by Claire Beckman. Brave New World Repertory Theatre presents an exciting, site specific adaptation of the Arthur Miller classic. $18. Reservations necessary. Order tickets and reserve on-line at www.bravenewworldrep.org or call 718-768-3195.
Bklyn Bloggage: arts & culture
Screaming Females photo by Brooklyn DIY
Cool jazz blog by Brooklyn jazz musician: Do the Math
Magnetic Fields played 1st of 3 shows at Town Hall: Brooklyn Vegan
Celebrating Slope “Genius” author David Shenk: Brooklyn Paper
March music calender: Now I’ve Heard Everything
Germaine Greer’s thoughts on Shakespeare and Mailer: WNYC Culture Blog
Punk and hardcore photos: Brooklyn DIY
Bookcourt’s new lit mag: NY Daily News
Playful clothes that make me smile: My Coney
Women buy more movie tickets than men: Women & Hollywood
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: The Written Nerd
The Day They Broke Ground
Yesterday after more than seven years of protest and delays, Bruce Ratner and supporters of the Atlantic Yards project broke ground on the Barclays Center, a home for the New Jersey Nets.
Many of Ratner’s political supporters were there: Paterson, Bloomberg and Markowitz are pictured with shovels. Even Jay-Z (who owns a small part of the Nets) held a shovel.
More than 100 protesters from Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn were also on hand.
The Barclay’s Center is just the first part of Ratner’s proposed 16 tower development, that is opposed by many in Brooklyn.
The arena is set to open in 2012, which sounds awfully soon. It seats 19,000 basketball fans.
Coming Soon: Lyceum Spring Food & Craft Market
OTBKB is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Lyceum Spring Food and Craft Market 2010, which will take place the weekend of May 1 and 2 at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Fourth Avenue at President Street.
The market, covering two floors at the Lyceum, will highlight an impressive array of artisanal goods, including clothing, clocks, home goods, art, gifts, jams, chocolates, cheeses, craft beer and more. There will also be workshops and demos: learn to bind a book or grab a basic lesson in chocolate making for instance.
So what does artisanal mean exactly? Handcrafted, small batch, human scale, personalized, and unbranded are a few other phrases that help to describe the kinds of things you’ll find at the market.
Over the next 7 weeks I’ll be highlighting some of the artists, whose work you’ll find at the fair. For starters:
You know I love Warpe Designs. I already have one of her beautiful lamps sitting on my writing desk at home. The holes in the lampshade (and all of her work) are individually handpunched to create the embossed effect and openings. Each pattern is unique and “painted with pins” to create this special effect.
My other pick for this week: Can’t Afford ‘Em Clocks. I thought these would make great gifts for the comic book/pop culture fanatic in your life. The artist says: “This is a an old 7″ record that I turned into an awesome wall clock. This clock is decoupaged with scenes from an old, 1990’s Spideman comic. This is a one of a kind piece of wall art that will also tell you the time. The clock has a couple of coats of mod-podge so it will be fine if it gets water or something of that sort on it.” He can also custom make a clock with your preference of comic, or something else. 
OTBKB Music: A Video and A Freebie
If you missed The Watson Twins during their visit to The Bell House a few weeks back, you can now catch them singing The Devil in You live in the studio at public radio station KCRW, recorded just two days ago. To see the video, just go here at Now I’ve Heard Everything .
Also for your listening pleasure, Spin Magazine put together a compilation of 29 songs by what it sees as the best bands playing South By Southwest (SXSW) next week. You can download it for free (and yes, completely legally) by going here at Now I’ve Heard Everything.
–Eliot Wagner
Mad Men Barbie Dolls
Available soon: The “Mad Men” Barbie doll line will feature a few of your favorite characters from the show’s Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency: creative director and leading man Don Draper; his wife Betty Draper; Sterling Cooper partner Roger Sterling; and office manager Joan Holloway.
Homebaked Goods: No, Doritos: Yes
What would a PTA bake sale be without delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies and brownies? Who wants to buy Doritos, Pop Tarts and Entenmanns?
Guess what?
On February 24, 2010 the Panel for Educational Policy voted to ban homemade foods from school fundraisers while permitting junk foods.
To protest this ridiculous ban, a mother at The Children’s Workshop School in the East Village is organizing with others a “Bake-In” at City Hall on Thursday, March 18th from 4-6PM to let Chancellor Klein and other officials know that parents are outraged about this ban. The group is calling to allow home-made baked good back int he schools.
No Words Daily Pix: Photograph by Hugh Crawford
Monty Clift Festival at BAM
At BAM on Friday, Mar 12 at 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm, A Place in the Sun (1951) directed by George Stevens with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
George Stevens takes on Theodore Dreiser’s monumental opus An American Tragedy in this adaptation featuring Clift in one of his defining roles: an ambitious social climber caught between his pregnant, working class girlfriend (Winters) and a wealthy socialite (Taylor). Each in their prime, Clift and Taylor’s chemistry and beauty are captured in Stevens’ electrifying, erotically-charged close-ups.
This screening is part of a That’s Montgomery Clift, Honey a film festival at BAM, which includes From Here to Eternity, I Confess and more
