How ghoulish. How spooky. How perfect. Spend Halloween at Green-Wood Cemetery on the big day: Saturday, October 31 at 1:00pm.
Event: Halloween at Green-Wood, Part 1
What: Lecture
Start Time: Saturday, October 31 at 1:00pm
End Time: Saturday, October 31 at 3:00pm
Where: Green-Wood Cemetery
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=200422440328&mid=141b23cG61983188Ga5b077G7
MOVIES: This weekend you can catch Where the Wild Things Are, the new film by director Spike Jonze of Maurice Sendak's childhood classic, at the Pavilion.
The Informant there or at BAM Rose Cinema, where it's playing with Bright Star (Dir. Jane Campion), Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story and Coco Before Chanel with Audrey Tatou.
THEATER: At the Brooklyn Lyceum: Rocky Horror Picture Show but not the movie. It's LIVE at 9:30 on Saturday night. Fourth Avenue at President Street. But just like the movie, the producers urge you to dress up and come ready for RHPS-style audience participation.
This low-key, neighborly event is the perfect time to meet
neighbors and support our local hospital, too. In case of rain, the
Book Swap will be held at the same time and place the following
Saturday, October 24th.
Wendy Ponte, the Brooklyn Frugal Family Examiner, writes for magazines and newspapers on
topics including parenting and childbirth, travel, culture and
lifestyles.
Don’t believe everything you read: The famous “Pink House” of Garfield Place is not for sale.
Bloggers and even the Daily News were buzzing this week that Bernie Henry, who famously painted his classic Park Slope brownstone salmon pink in the 1960s, was selling the empty nest and moving to a smaller place nearby.
But the house is not on the market, a real-estate source told The Brooklyn Paper, because Henry’s grandson is under investigation for forging key documents that have put a cloud over who has legal ownership of the building.
Henry, 92, said he couldn’t speak about the matter on Wednesday because his ailing wife had just died
David Pechefsky, Green Party candidate for City Council in the 39th district, will go head to head with Democratic candidate Brad Lander, at the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID).
This is CBID's monthly meeting but it is open to the public. The discussion will focus on David's strongest point: reform of the Council and the role of the Speaker. This topic has generated a lot of press and is a point where the two candidates strongly disagree, so don't miss it.
The debate takes place at the Park Slope Methodist Church, 6th Avenue and 8th Street on October 22nd at 8 p.m.
So what is Poetry Punch?
It's BRW's annual FUN poetry party curated by Michele Madigan Somerville.
How about a nice poetry punch?
When is it?
On
Thursday October 15th at 8 p.m.
Who's reading?
Come hear poets Edmund Berrigan, Louise Crawford, Bill Evans Sharon Mesmer, Wanda Phipps, Joanna Sit, Michael
Sweeney and Jeffrey C. Wright. It's an awesome group.
How about a nice poetry punch?
Where?
At
the Old Stone House. Fifth Avenue and 3rd Street in Park
Slope. Suggested donation of $5. includes punch, wine and snacks.
718-768-3195
How about a nice poetry punch?
This
is ALWAYS a fun, festive reading. A fun night out. These poets write
smart, interesting, juicy, and entertaining poetry. It's good stuff and
there will, of course, be good punch.
Wendy Ponte, Brooklyn Frugal Family Examiner, says that making your own cleaning products can save you money. And isn't it nice to know that safe, non-toxic cleaners make your home (and the environment) greener?
Pulitizer Prize winning poet, Philip Levine will be reading on October 22 at 7 p.m. at Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue in Park Slope between Bergen and St. Marks), a micro brewery that also has a very active and interesting fiction and poetry reading series called "Chin Music."
The “G-Train Salon” presents intimate discussions with emerging artists from the Park Slope oasis, Urban Alchemist Design Collective. This month, artist Andrea Burgay ushers in the Halloween season with a ghoulish display of cobwebs, skeletons, mutated limbs and recreated childhood mementos. Join us for a discussion and Q & A with the artist as she walks through this poignant landscape haunted by memories, nostalgia and “Hungry Ghosts.” www.gtrainsalon.blogspot.com
WHO: Mixed-media Artist Andrea Burgay at Urban Alchemist Design Collective
WHAT: “Hungry Ghosts,” solo exhibition and salon discussion
WHEN: Saturday, October 24, 2009
7:00pm Cocktails
8:00pm Salon discussion led by artist Andrea Burgay
Exhibition on view through November 19, 2009
WHERE: Urban Alchemist Design Collective
343 5th Street (Off 5th Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Despite the influence of the Food Coop, Park Slope
does worse in recycling than Bay Ridge, which is
coop-less. That's the result of a massive Sanitation Dept.
search of garbage cans.
"I guess we've still got our work cut out for us," says
Park Slope Civic Council president Ken Freeman.
Brooklyn Beat of the blog Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn was at the mayoral debate last night. Here's an excerpt. Go to his blog for more text and pix:
Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times really didn't much like Jonathan Lethem's new book, Chronic City. I loved Lethem's Fortress of Solitude (and so did Kakutani), Lethem's opus about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970's. So I have every intention of reading Chronic City even if it is about Manhattan. First I have to finish Middlemarch and Big Machine by Victor LaValle.
It's happening. Greenlight Bookstore, Fort Greene's new independent bookseller is opening on Saturday. And they're inviting people to celebrate the launch.
Greenlight Bookstore is located at 686 Fulton Street (on the corner of
South Portland) and is the brainchild of Jessica
Stockton Bagnulo (Book Nerd) and Rebecca Fitting. They say they've got "a combined 25
years of experience in the book industry, an award-winning business
plan, a great retail space, and a shared vision of bringing a fantastic
independent bookstore to the neighborhood."
Take a look for yourself.
LAUNCH PARTY!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Park Slope's Pepto-Bismol house is on the market.
Bernie Henry,
92, gained fame and infamy in the neighborhood three years ago when he
slapped a coat of hot pink paint on the four-story Garfield Place
brownstone where he's lived for almost 50 years.
He put the house up for sale last month because the space is too big for him and his wife.
"I'm
92. It's time to get rid of it," he said. "It's a lot of money to keep
it up … I'm going to buy a smaller house around the corner."
Henry,
a retired tailor, said he never meant to get his neighbors' hackles up
with the brilliant hue: He was just trying to replicate the house's
more subdued shade of pink that it wore since the 1960s.
"They sent me the wrong paint," he said. "It was painted this color accidentally."
Still,
the bubblegum brownstone has its perks. "It made me a star," Henry
said. "I didn't know paint would get me on every TV station in New York."
The
asking price for the house is $2.3 million. Henry doesn't remember how
much he paid for it in 1961, but houses on the block at the time were
going for well under $50,000.
About 40 potential buyers have
viewed the brownstone so far – and that doesn't count curiosity seekers
who just wanted a peek inside the most colorful house on the block.
Jason West and Dykes On Mics
Dykes On Mics is produced by two hilarious New York
based comedians: Leah Dubie and Amy Beckerman.
I listened to the first half hour of Tuesday night's debate between NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg and mayoral candidate City Comptroller William Thompson on WNYC.
"What
are you doing here, Mike? We voted for term limits!" On the radio it sounded like it was quite a ruckus.
Turns out it was Green Party Candidate for Mayor Rev. Billy Talen.
Talen was not speaking from the stage, but from the fifth row in the
audience. Though Talen will appear on the ballot in November along with
six other candidates for Mayor he was not invited to participate in the debate. Only Mike Bloomberg and Democratic nominee Bill Thompson were allowed to participate in the one hour debate.
According to Talen: "the missing voice tonight
was the voice of New York City's neighborhoods, which Bloomberg and the
Democrats have victimized in their lust for the bubble-based economies
of tourism, chain stores and Wall Street. We will not forget about
Bloomberg's dismissal of term limits. He cannot spend enough to erase
Democracy."
An OTBKB reader and tipster sent this in.
No more
trips up to the Upper West Side for comfy if expensive sheets. Thought you could use this on OTBKB.
| Where: | Central Library, Dweck Center |
| When: |
Saturday, Oct 17 4 PM |
| Audience: | For Adults |
In Time of Fear is part of a series titled The American
Experiment: How Immigration Has Created a Country Unique in the History
of the World, which is made possible with funding from Martin L. and
Rona Schneider.
Saturday, October 17th at 5 p.m. at Barbes:
FADOS. 2007. Spain & Portugal. 92 min. A
fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, FADOS contains
homages to such legends as Maria Severa and Amália Rodrigues, as well
as stunning turns by modern stars like Mariza and Camané.
FADOS
completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Spanish director Carlos Saura’s
Flamenco (1995) and Oscar-nominated Tango (1998). Using Lisbon as a
backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre—fado.
Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave of modern
fadistas, he ingeniously deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting
effects, and lush colors to frame a collection of performances that
survey a rich history of this art form. Under the musical supervision
of Carlos do Carmo.
Oct 14—17 at 7:30pm at BAM:
Inspired by Italo Calvino's ebullient descriptions of urban environments in his novel Invisible Cities,
the four members of Sō Percussion—all extraordinary musicians and
composers—join video artist Jenise Treuting and director Rinde Eckert
to give voice to the evanescent beauty of the metropolis. Homespun
sampling techniques harmonize with found objects cum instruments,
illuminating the patterns of urban life and turning the concrete jungle
into a cauldron of sensory experience.
BAM Harvey Theater
70min, no intermission
Tickets: $20, 30, 35
Park Slope's Wendy Ponte writes for magazines and newspapers on topics including
parenting and childbirth, travel, culture and lifestyles. She is a
Contributing Editor for Mothering Magazine and has written articles,
columns and essays for The Brooklyn Papers, the Newark Star-Ledger, the
Daily News and more. She is the co-author of Having a Baby, Naturally.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
But now she's turning her attention to living the frugal life in Brooklyn. Check out her Frugal Family Examiner articles below:
How can you save money on those humungous pumpkins your children love
to buy for Halloween? One thought is that you can head for a nearby
farm and…
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There are a bunch of inexpensive, or even free, things to do in
Brooklyn this weekend. Friday, October 9 If you can find a sitter, The
Living Room…
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There aren't many weekends left before it gets too cold to have a
garage sale (or stoop sale, as it is referred to in many parts of
Brooklyn). So…
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Few things personify romance more than a dinner out (sans children, of
course). Dinner for two is supposed to be a splurge–but there are
splurges and…
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Auto insurance is one of those bills that you have to pay–but doesn't
offer any instant gratification. It's one of those "just-in-case"…
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Halloween costumes aren’t cheap these days—even though they sure look
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Two-thirds of children who ate lots of candy
were arrested as adults for violent offenses,
according to the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Sweet No Treats
Candy is dandy
But in time leads to crime.
There aren't all that many warm days left. But it was sunny and in the
low to mid 60s on Tuesday afternoon. That's when I can upon Park Slope
resident Dan Pearce with his new Dobro (a wooden guitar with a metal
resonator in the front over which the strings pass). Dan jokingly
called this stint on First Street his "Connecticut Muffin gig."
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Going to The Poetry Punch on Thursday? There's still some great music
to be had afterward as The Winterpills will be back in New York at The
Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen Street (F Train to Second Avenue, use
the First Avenue exit), 11pm.
–Eliot Wagner
A Child Grows in Brooklyn has a flu shot locator (findaflushot.com) and a list of drug stores in Brooklyn where you can get flu shots.
I noticed that flu shots are available at Target. Here's the Target Flu Shot Locator.
Bring your black knit nurse corsets and heavy eyeliner down to the
Lyceum to relive the classic stage musical of the Rocky Horror Show.
Get into the Halloween spirit and come dressed to kill. The Brooklyn Lyceum is the perfect location to hold all the campy suspense,
with its 3000 sq ft of exposed brick, old bathhouse architecture and
huge steel I-beams, the musical is practically asking to jump out of
its walls.
No other musical blends science fiction with trampy campy sexy
theatrics quite like Rocky Horror. By the end you’ll be humming along " …Crawling on the planet's face, tiny insects called the human race, lost in time, lost in space – and meaning." Love and Light Productions brings the full production to life with a one-night stop at the Brooklyn Lyceum on their East Coast tour.
Director Alicia Starr and her talented full cast come ready to get you
shakin', singing along and primed for the Halloween week ahead. More
info about the cast and production at loveandlightproductions.com.
The Brooklyn Lyceum,
known formerly as NYC Public Bath No. 7, is a performing arts and
cultural center in Park Slope. Originally opened in 1910 as an indoor
bathing facility, it once housed the largest indoor public pool in the
country. Reopened in 1994 as the Brooklyn Lyceum, the old bathhouse now
plays host to a range of performance events, festivals and cultural
activities, including the upcoming production of Bauhaus, by the
resident theatre company Nervetank. Its café is open to the public
daily and offers free wireless access.
A LOTTA NIGHT MUSIC
She's up all night
Talking away,
Keeping it up
Till break of day.
Pity poor me,
Under attack–
I married an
Insomniyak.