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By Samantha Sherman
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

RED HOOK -- Friends and artists gathered at 65 Union St. this past Saturday night for the weekend-only exhibit “Salting the Excellence.� The exhibit showcased the works of nine emerging artists at the WORK Gallery, a space dedicated to fostering emerging artists and their craft {read more...}

By Jess Goodwin
Brooklyn Eagle

Most people probably don’t picture any of the characters of Alice in Wonderland as frat boys chugging down PBRs and gorging themselves on Utz potato chips. Lewis Carroll surely didn’t.

But that’s what makes “alice...Alice...ALICE!�, the Irondale Ensemble Project’s latest undertaking, so unique: None of it caters to what people expect of Carroll’s classic tale. Directors and co-founders Jim Niesen (Irondale’s artistic director) and Barbara Mackenzie-Wood have updated the story to a {read more...}

Curated by Spring Hofeldt and Michele Jaslow, “Glitch Generation� plays with our heightened expectations of media devices — phones, cameras and computers — {read more...}

By Caitlin McNamara
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BOERUM HILL — Those with myrmecophobia, or a fear of ants, read no further. For the rest, something unusual is afoot in Brooklyn.

At a ton and a half and 60-feet long, “The Ant� is a formidable presence, its steel I-beam legs and nylon balloon body positioned precisely between the support beams and high ceiling of the Invisible Dog’s exhibit space.

New York-based French artist Xavier Roux has wanted to create an ant {read more...}

By Caitlin McNamara
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

PARK SLOPE — What would you say if a publisher asked you to make a book about 100 New York photographers? Where would you start? Which 100 would you choose?

Cynthia Maris Dantzic, after first saying “no thanks� — there were too many greats to choose from — decided to tackle it this way: by not just picking the top names. She set out to find the widest array of work by 100 living {read more...}

By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN -- “Plan on bringing your dancing shoes,� says Brooklyn’s family troubadour Dan Zanes, who will be performing two blowout shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. as part of Sounds Like Brooklyn, a series celebrating Brooklyn’s diverse music scene.

Zanes and his band will be joined onstage by special guests like tap dancer Derick K. Grant, buzuq player {read more...}

Park Slope’s Todd and Brad Barnes used Brooklyn locations for most of their Sundance Film Festival movie Homewrecker. But the decision to film here was not just out of loyalty.

“Being in Brooklyn allowed for us to keep costs down, and it’s a character in the movie,� Todd Barnes explained by phone recently.

Homewrecker, a comedy about a an ex-jailbird locksmith finding love on work-release in New York City, was to make its sold-out debut Friday (Jan. 22) in Sundance’s {read more...}

Brave New World Repertory Company will revive two Miller plays in the coming months. The company will perform a reading of Miller’s The American Clock on Jan. 30 in order to raise {read more...}

In a scene from As You Like It, all but one of the lights at the BAM Harvey Theater are extinguished. The remaining spotlight hangs down to the center of the stage. Gentlemen in tuxedos and two women in gowns gather around two men as they prepare to fight. The light is pushed, begins swinging back and forth, as a rhythmic drum beat pounds off-stage on a timpani. They spar as their shadows dance behind them on the back wall. The scene is reminiscent of an illicit underground boxing match.

This is part of director Sam Mendes’ new production of Shakespeare’s well-known comedy. Mendes, supported by set designer Tom Piper and costume designer Catherine Zuber, presents a fresh look at a timeless classic. The costumes in particular, are decidedly {read more...}

Just Kids, the new memoir by Patti Smith, recalls the life she shared with Robert Mapplethorpe in Brooklyn. While Smith sometimes veils her meaning in poetic flourishes, a touching tale of love and devotion through the semantic haze.

She portrays herself and Mapplethorpe as star-crossed lovers united and ultimately divided. From their modest beginnings in an apartment in Brooklyn, Smith became a rock 'n' roll star, marrying poetry and music on the stage, while Mapplethorpe blossomed into {read more...}

Long-time actor and newly minted playwright Dan Via is about to see his first play make its world stage debut. Not only will the three-member cast of gay characters feature Gerald McCullouch, who played weapons expert Bobby Dawson on CSI for 10 seasons, but Via himself will play a role.

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Of the four iconic smells he chose, three are food related: hot dog, bagel and lox, and strawberry doughnut. The fourth scent is the sweet aroma {read more...}