Brooklynite Paul Dano loves to eat meat, but doesn’t want your milkshake. We caught up with the actor in advance of next week’s release of his new flick, The Extra Man, based on a novel by Jonathan Ames.
July 22, 2010 Film
Egg creams have been the more or less official beverage of the borough for generations now—but like many of the hallmarks of Brooklyn culture, there’s been a recent renewal of interest as new blood moves in and stakes a claim to old mantles. We’ve got a round up the best spots to grab a glass of this frothy beverage.
June 2, 2010 MultiMedia, Restaurants, Video
Introducing The New Eight Million: A series of essays about becoming and living the existence of a New Yorker. We’re here to ask, what’s worth knowing about those who spend their lives in our fair city? Click through to learn more about how to submit your original non-fiction for this new series.
May 14, 2010 Featured Writers
The ribbon cutting for Pier 1, the first section of Brooklyn Bridge Park to open, took place in the rain on Monday, March 22.
April 1, 2010 MultiMedia, Read Features, Video
February, at least according to Hallmark, is the month of love. At BrooklynTheBorough.com, we’re willing to buy that, but we’re going to take a slightly more adult look at affairs of the heart. Enter Melissa Febos, author of the memoir Whip Smart (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press) out on March 2, which recalls her four years working at a midtown dungeon as a dominatrix. Publishers Weekly called it an “emotionally stark, excoriating work, [in which] Febos mines the darkest, most troubling aspects of human interaction.” Catch her reading, live, at the Franklin Park Reading Series on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Crown Heights.
February 3, 2010 RiR Author
Holden’s hunter’s cap haunts me as a lasting symbol of American literature as few others do. At once evocative of the hunt—of searching—and an insulation against the world, Holden’s defining sartorial article works nicely as a metaphor to be mined by high school English students in sophomore term papers year after year. But as nexus between the “very corny” trappings of life and the way we occasionally can’t help but fall for them ourselves, it also serves as a perfect reflection of the place Catcher in the Rye has staked out in the canon.
February 2, 2010 Read Features
Good news for all those who love things tartan, or things poetic, or things containing sheep’s heart, liver and lungs minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and simmered in the animal’s stomach several hours: it’s Burns’ Day!
January 25, 2010 MultiMedia, Read Features, Video
The heat takes a toll on the Ninth Street Bridge, DUMBO is a travel destination, and the Domino Sugar development plan is approved: your morning news from around the borough.
Greenpoint feels a bit like a small town trapped in a different era, but in that warm and welcoming everybody-knows-each-other, life-is-fine-and-dandy kind of way. Though the neighborhood has seen an influx of younger residents over the last decade bringing with them new restaurants and bars, at Brooklyn’s northern most point, the new and the old fit together, creating a friendly, vibrant community.
From classy to redneck each famous birthday this weekend will have you drinkin’ and smokin’ out on the front porch. A short festival, some coffee shop drags, a massive warehouse party, and a daytime dance party. Pretty much!
Our weekly tip sheet on where to see what in the Brooklyn art world. This week’s featured listing is Gridspace’s: “Amanda Wojick: 12 Collages.” Opening reception is on Thursday, July 29, 7-9pm. Click through to read more.
Your favorite bookstores are bringing you great new books and author readings every night this week. From a literary magazine launch party to readings by local author to a panel discussion with memoirists, this week has something for every Brooklyn bookworm.
