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The Brooklyn Bar Association inducted its new president, Andrew Fallek, as well as its newly elected officers and trustees during an event in the Ceremonial Courtroom at Brooklyn Borough Hall  … Full Article

Gangster Squad's Anthony Mackie, a Brooklynite, is cold on 2014 NY Superbowl

Bedford-Stuyvesant
Add Brooklynite Anthony Mackie to the list of people cold on next year's Super Bowl at the home stadium of New York's teams. … Full Article

Monday night books: Literary coordinators share their work at a BookCourt 'Salon'

Cobble Hill
This Monday, Feb. 4, BookCourt will be hosting ‘The Salon’ — a conversation on literary and visual culture featuring some of the curators of New York’s greatest literary events. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Carroll Gardens writer praises ‘Messy Lives’

Carroll Gardens
Brooklynite Katie Roiphe has long been known for her courageous writing, whether in the form of personal essays or cultural and literary criticism. … Full Article

After playing Bensonhurst in 1970, Grateful Dead kept on truckin'

Bensonhurst
With the Dodgers’ departure in 1957, coupled with flocks of Brooklynites fleeing to suburbia and beyond, the borough for many years fell into somewhat of a slide.  More recently, though, this situation has been thoroughly reversed. … Full Article

LIBRARY ON THE BLOCK: Plans to sell Brooklyn Heights branch building gets a hearing Tuesday night

Brooklyn Heights
The planned sale of the building shared by the Brooklyn Heights and business branch libraries will be discussed publicly on Tuesday night by an official from Brooklyn Public Library system. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Thinking of retiring? Reinvent yourself instead

Brooklyn Heights
For most of us, when we envision the end of a career there is one word in particular that comes to mind: retirement. … Full Article

Brooklyn's Monday Bookbeat: Channeling dead rockers; exploring post-punkers; being a jujitsu rabbi's godless blonde

DUMBO
Renowned English bassist and singer Peter Hook will appear at DUMBO’s powerHouse Arena on Monday, Jan. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Aging in style: the ‘Broad Appeal’ of growing older than 60

Once you hit a certain age, your birthday no longer seems like something to celebrate. Rather, you begin to dread the day that number increases. … Full Article

AT LAST! Loew’s Kings set for 'triumphant encore' as palatial Flatbush theater

Flatbush
Officials broke ground Wednesday on the restoration of the historic Loew’s Kings Theatre – once part of a famed cluster of first-run movie theaters near Church and Flatbush avenues in Flatbush. … Full Article
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