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Afropunk Fest, 16 other rocking ways to spend the weekend
Lianne La Havas will be there. Will you? 1. Learn how hard all your beloved John Hughes characters sold out at Forty-Six Candles, an evening of disillusioned fiction. (Friday) 2. Morgan Avenue...
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93 Days of Summer, Part III: What’s up in September
The Grove Alley party looks bright and summery, and it’s happening in September. So summer is still alive. via Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Damn, it’s September already, which unfortunately means the...
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What are the answers to Brooklyn’s unsolved summer mysteries?
Yeah wait…what was the deal with this feaking clown? We here at Brokelyn are sadly aware that Summer ’14 ended in spirit yesterday, on Labor Day. This year’s summer was known for two things: the...
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How to trick your visiting out-of-town guests into never leaving Brooklyn
Drag your friends to the left to the left. When you get the obnoxious call your college buddies want to spend the weekend in New York, you’re almost tempted to say, “No.” You might already forced to go...
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John Turturro narrated and starred in a promo video for Green-Wood Cemetery
Maybe the place where you live has a cool cemetery that people like talking about, and that’s great. Is it as cool as Green-Wood Cemetery, which played home to the Battle of Brooklyn and is home to...
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17 Brooklyn Halloween events that aren’t scary unaffordable
The roller disco at Lola Star will be like this, but on roller skates. So really, really scary ‘Tis the season to put out the pumpkins, deck the halls with boughs of cobwebs and stir your cauldron pot,...
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Moonwalk on skates, and 17 other funky things to do this weekend
Roll up in the rink like 1. Before Citizens plays at Webster Hall, they’re giving a free show at Fred Perry Brooklyn Surplus Shop. (Friday) 2. Roth-toberfest is the Van Halen pig roast we never...
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Love, for less: 20 Brooklyn dates for under $20
How freaking romantic. Photo by Etienne Frossard, via Facebook Dating is hard. It’s difficult to meet new people, whether in “real life” or online, and the process of dating itself can be exhausting,...
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Brooklyn Historical Society, Green-Wood Cemetery team up to host talks about...
Bushwick certainly used to look a lot different. via City of Noise As you would expect of an old city, Brooklyn has a long relationship with fire, man’s greatest foe and greatest ally at the same time....
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It’ll cost you at least $1800 to get buried in Brooklyn
If you want to be buried in Green-Wood, you’re gonna have to choose between being able to buy a home in life or a home in death. Choose wisely. via Facebook We have some bad news and we’re going to...
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Get chatty at a Gilmore Girls party, 16 more weekend ideas
This, plus drinking games. 1. Soul Understated brings their soul-hip-hop-jazz sound to The Classon Social Club. (Friday) 2. The author of 33 Artists 3 Acts discusses her work on behind the scenes...
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People keep dying, so Green-Wood is adding more expensive mausoleums
If you’re buried here, you’d be dead by now. via Facebook It’s an immutable law of nature that people will keep dying, no matter how many scientific advances we make. Where will we put all these dead...
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Mystery of the Green-Wood Cemetery Clown revealed as just some idiot doing art
Sigh. You might remember that last year brought us joy in the form of captivating Brooklyn-based mysteries. They made us ask questions related to the security of our landmarks and whether living in a...
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Judge vegan comfort food, and 13 more ways to feast this weekend
Wear your stretchy pants, or no pants. 1. The Dirty Water Dogs will be howling some funk and zydeco tunes at Bar Chord. (Friday) 2. Mark Andrew Ferguson talks about the young, lost, and heartbroken as...
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Learn to forage, and 15 more ways to pick through your weekend
You never know when those foraging skills with come in handy 1. See VickiKristinaBARCELONA perform at Bar Lunatico. We hear they’re more fun than the film. (Friday) 2. Memoirist Dale Peck talks...
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How’d you get that cool job? Jeff Richman, historian at Green-Wood Cemetery
Jeff Richman: from the courtroom to the tombs. via the Green-Wood Discovery Blog Most people probably think of Green-Wood Cemetery as the place at the end of the line, the place for the big sleep, the...
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Singing comics, chatting with rock stars: The 5 best things to do in Brooklyn...
See what kind of singing voice Sasheer Zamata has tonight at Union Hall. Photo by Robyn van Swank You got through Monday yesterday, congratulations! Not only that, but the weather forecast for the...
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Don’t let the frogs get you, and 26 more ways to have a killer weekend
1. Bid a sad farewell to Proteus Gowanus, the latest in an endless series of losses for alternative spaces in Bk. (Friday, FREE) 2. Baila to the diverse offerings at Celebrate Brooklyn’s Latin...
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Check out a robot church, and 20 more ways to have a very unique weekend
Seriously one of the most unusual places in Brooklyn (pic c/o Atlas Obscura) 1. Flaunt your feline fandom at Bar Bahche’s Silent Auction to benefit no-kill cat shelter KittyKind. (Friday, FREE) 2. Or...
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Top 20: The best cheap things to do in Brooklyn this weekend, orchestral...
Anonymous Ensemble is going to take you higher (#5) (pic by Anonymous Ensemble) 1. Hear some weird sh*t at Blogologues, where Allison Goldberg, Jen Jamula, and Tommy Heleringer act out the internet,...
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