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This Memorial Day weekend, Brooklyn is bursting with ways to commemorate our veterans and celebrate the unofficial start of the summer season.  … Full Article

Brooklyn BookBeat: A meditation on war and ‘Starstruck’

DUMBO
Acclaimed Brooklyn author Jennifer Cody Epstein will appear at BookCourt on Wednesday, March 13, to read from her latest novel “ … Full Article

Art that's all heart in DUMBO

DUMBO
It started as storm debris and ended up as a Valentine to New York City. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Writer confesses to screw-ups in 'Public Apology'

I imagine it’s hard to find a book that is as unique and funny and sad and true as Dave Bry’s debut memoir, “Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time” (Grand Central Publishing Hardcover; March 19, 2013).  It’s not often that someone so willingly l … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Author’s first novel in 17 years explores ‘Life After Life’

DUMBO
Jill McCorkle, author of nine previous books, is coming out this month with “Life After Life” – her first novel in seventeen years. … Full Article

Brooklyn Heights childhood revisited: Alice Outwater’s 2nd volume of reminiscences

Brooklyn Heights
Alice Davidson Outwater has followed up her 2011 “82 Remsen Street” with a new collection on what it was like to grow up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1930s and early ‘40s.  As with the first book, the stories in “ … Full Article

RACIST RANT? 'Ice Cream Girl' pulls 'Yo Granny's in my Garbage' video

Bensonhurst
Faced with mounting criticsm, a Bensonhurst ice cream pedler on Wednesday afternoon pulled from YouTube a music video that ridicules older Asian women who rummage through garbage cans collecting redeemable cans and bottles. … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Park Sloper's guide to parenting with a ‘French Twist’

Park Slope
Parenting is never easy, especially in a city that's devoid of backyards yet full of subway platforms. Tired of constantly quelling her two daughters' meltdowns, Park Slope mother Catherine Crawford decided to adopt a unique approach to raising her children. … Full Article

Bay Ridge's Regina Opera presents `La Serva Padrona,’ Suor Angelica’

Bay Ridge
The Regina Opera, in its 43rd season, gave us an afternoon to treasure with a double bill that offered a dollop of laughter and a gallon of tears.  … Full Article

Brooklyn Bookbeat: Fort Greene entrepreneur publishes book in support of small businesses

Fort Greene
Fort Greene resident Michael S.Robinson is a man of many accomplishments. After emigrating to the U.S. from St. … Full Article
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