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DIY Diane Brings Circus To Life At Home

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If you remember the good old days of Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s (MNN) public access television extravaganza, then you might remember seeing one Diane Dwyer, DIY circus performer and local artist, whose 1994 lo-fi video production of her very own circus hit the airwaves before YouTube was even a twinkle in our eyes. These days her program, Diane’s Circus, is on it’s way to making a comeback – digitally.

November 19, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Theater
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Tzfirah, The Siren that Reminds People to Remember

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Our guest contributor Shelly Oria’s third contribution is an essay about returning to Tel Aviv to visit her sister.

November 17, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, The Read
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Two Cents Plain: All That’s Changed Has Remained The Same

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he has brought us two extra chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the final installment.

November 16, 2010 Guest Authors
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The Dish: The ABCs of Winter CSAs

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The increasingly-popular CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, is a method by which members buy into a farm’s harvest before the season begins. In exchange for their funding, they receive a portion of the farm’s produce, eggs, or other products throughout the year. But what do you get in the winter? And how does one go about joining?

November 15, 2010 Boroughing, Food
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Emma’s Undoing, A Play

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Our November guest contributor Shelly Oria is also a playwright, and has contributed this excerpt of her original work, Emma’s Undoing. Meet Sergey, Emma and Barco, and their Russian humor.

November 10, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Guest Authors, Theater
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Meet Tamar Korn, One Woman Jazz Revival

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Tamar Korn has performed professionally for Cangelosi Cards for many years, paying melodic homage to jazz and country tunes from the ’20s and ’30s.

November 10, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
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OMG! Shake Shack to Open in Brooklyn

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Brooklynites have sat back patiently as restauranteur Danny Meyer and his Union Square Hospitality Group opened Shake Shack after Shake Shake all over this fair city – even at City Field! – and wondered why our fair borough has only seen their mobile truck on random occasions parked downtown. Find out where the new location will open.

November 8, 2010 Food, In Brooklyn
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Guitarist Lenny Kaye Would Like Another 60 Years to See How It All Turns Out

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Guitarist Lenny Kaye talks about ‘the old internet’ and why he’s not on Facebook at the launch party for FortnightJournal.com plus the rocker’s extra special millennial-era rendition of Gloria, the so-called National Anthem of Rock n’ Roll.

November 8, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Multi/Media, Video
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Jennifer Egan Reads ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’

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The following clips – it’s a long story, there are two – feature Jennifer Egan reading from her latest novel A Visit from the Goon Squad.

November 8, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Local/Readings, The Read, Video
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The Acoustics of Outernational’s Future Rock

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We caught up with local rockers Outernational a few times this year, most notably for a recent acoustic performance at Bar 4. That acoustic performance and our interview with singer Miles Solay turned into the premiere episode of our new video series profiling local musicians (click to watch). What we did not know at the time was that the guys would be previewing their acoustic set before heading to nearby Southpaw to share a stage with Shilpa Ray and Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye on November 11 for our evening to benefit FortnightJournal.com.

November 3, 2010 Boroughing, Fortnight Journal, Music Profiles, Video
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: A Stroll Down Pitkin Avenue

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he will bring us the final two chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury.

November 3, 2010 Classic, Multi/Media, Photo, Read Features
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Fortnight Journal Founders Discuss Critiques of their ‘Millennial’ Generation

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Fortnight Journal founders Adam Whitney Nichols and Samantha Hines launched the web project on October 20 with the goal of archiving and documenting the promise of the millennial generation. The site’s inaugural fourteen contributors will submit one work per two week cycle, revealing a new multimedia moment by a different person everyday. Then a luminary – the first, Patti Smith – responds critically or creatively to one piece. The site contributors rotate quarterly. The project is a publication of Fourteen Foundation, Inc., “a nonprofit public initiative devoted to reviving cross-generational mentorship by documenting and sustaining dialogue on traditional forms of practice,” who are currently in the process of obtaining tax-exempt status. Listen to them discuss their vision for a new kind of website.

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November 2, 2010 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Multi/Media
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Singer Shilpa Ray Says What She Feels Like Saying

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Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers ended a late afternoon set at Knitting Factory during CMJ with Shilpa Ray stepping away from her harmonium and pogoing wildly, stabbing the air like a child throwing a tantrum. The whole orchestral molotov should fit perfectly at Southpaw on November 11 when the band shares a bill with locals Outernational and Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye at a benefit show for FortnightJournal.com, sponsored by BrooklyntheBorough.com.

November 2, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Music Profiles
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Shilpa and Her Harmonium

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A behind the scenes look at Singer Shilpa Ray’s recent photoshoot. Watch Shilpa Ray play her harmonium at an intimate photoshoot performance at the studio of our resident photography Michael Popp. In this short video, Ray explains how her harmonium works – an instrument she has played since she was 9 years old.

November 2, 2010 Classic, Fortnight Journal, Multi/Media, Video
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Documentation

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Shelly Oria’s first contribution is Documentation, about a series of kisses.

November 2, 2010 Guest Authors
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The Dish: Tamarind

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Tamarind is the most popular fruit that you’ve never heard of. Ubiquitous throughout South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Mexico, it’s rarely used or mentioned in the U.S. Learn where in Brooklyn to find this sweet-sour fruit and how to use it at home.

October 27, 2010 Food, Recipes
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: Back To Brownsville

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the fourth chapter.

October 27, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
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#Offline Festival Takes On CMJ

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Gloves are off starting tomorrow as Pitchfork hosts its inaugural #Offline Festival 2010 at the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg through Saturday. The online publication is no stranger to carefully curated festivals, throwing one of the year’s best in Chicago each July. However, this will mark the first time the indie taste-maker will go up against New York’s long running CMJ Music Marathon in their own back yard.

October 21, 2010 Brooklyn Beats
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The New DIY: Atomic Tom Goes Viral on the B Train

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Brooklyn locals Atomic Tom released the homemade video for their latest single on October 14 and nearly two million YouTube hits later found themselves charting below Lady Gaga in iTunes sales for the week — all without touching an instrument that does not require charging. The viral video features the band playing “Take Me Out” using their iPhone instrument apps to a sparse crowd on the B train as it crosses the Manhattan Bridge.

October 21, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
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Fortnight Journal’s New Media Millennials

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Fortnight Journal is a new web project that documents the promise of the millennial generation. On November 11, 2010 BrooklynTheBorough.com will partner with Southpaw to host a benefit performance to raise money for the project featuring rising Brooklyn singer Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, local rockers Outernational and the legendery Ms.Smtih with guitarist Lenny Kaye.

October 21, 2010 Classic, Culture, Fortnight Journal, In Brooklyn, The People
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Queerespondence Got Its Zombie on DownSouth

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The October Queerespondence, our inaugural night at Southpaw, was a blast! Here’s the documentation of the Night of the Living Queers party by resident photographer and stand up guy Michael Popp.

October 20, 2010 Features, Multi/Media, Photo, Queerespondence
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: Writer’s Block

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the third chapter.

October 18, 2010 Guest Authors
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Local Halloween Theater Features Zombies, Acrobats and Scary Tales

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Not into dressing up, but still like Halloween? Go watch other people mimic the undead for you. Here are some local folks making Halloween theater in the borough this season, so dress up or dress down and partake in the festivities. But please, no tall hats.

October 18, 2010 In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Shared Content, Theater, Video
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: The Critique

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the second chapter.

October 13, 2010 Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
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The New Brooklyn Cookbook and the New Brooklyn Mind

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The New Brooklyn Cookbook, out last week from William Morrow, was written by Melissa and Brendan Vaughan, recipe developer and magazine editor, respectively, who are sensitive to the idea that “New Brooklyn” is both difficult to define and somewhat polarizing.

October 12, 2010 Classic, Food, Shared Content
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Nestled Into Red Hook, The Art Lot Perseveres Without Emphasis on Funding

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Last month the Art Lot in Red Hook opened its most recent show, Media Mix x 4. The collaborative amalgam of painting, architecture, photography and textile includes work by local artists Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Babs Reingold, John Roach and Mary Schiliro. “The emphasis is not on selling,” curator Jim Osman tells us.

October 7, 2010 Classic, Featured Artists, Shared Content, The Art
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Sufjan Rings the Death Knell for MySpace

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On October 12 Brooklyn’s interstate sensation Sufjan Stevens will release The Age of Adz, the highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed Illinois, after nearly six years in the making. It’s an ambitious record — dense, cryptic, beautifully melodic and at times a terrifying headphone listen from the online stream alone. News hit last week that Sufjan would ask fans to purchase the record from his Bandcamp site.

October 6, 2010 Audio, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Shared Content
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Graphic Novelist Martin Lemelman Illustrates His Brooklyn Boyhood

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the first chapter.

October 6, 2010 Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
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Riot Grrrl Molly Neuman Gets Back in the Kitchen

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I’m sitting in Molly Neuman’s kitchen, where the punk rocker, newly incarnated as a chef and proprietor of Simple Social Kitchen, is making a tortilla de patata. She’s hardly the first musician to create a new career in food, but although it’s not quite a movement, there is something superficially similar about the two careers. “For me the connection is creativity, being able to make something from an idea,” she says, when I ask her what the similarities are between cooking and music. Of course, there’s much more to it than that.

October 5, 2010 Classic, Food, Multi/Media, Photo
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The Dish: Spicy Long Pie Pumpkin Soup

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Why is it that pumpkin-flavored food items are always better in theory than in practice? Here’s a pumpkin-flavored thing that doesn’t disappoint: Pumpkin.

September 28, 2010 Classic, Food, Recipes
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BTB in Forbes

Get tips on surviving the working world in [insert your cultural field here] and how to spin it off into your own thing. Read the Forbes interview on entrepreneurship and new media with founding editor Nicole Brydson.

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