The Boerum Hill illustrator’s in-progress graphic novel, Part-Time Dog, didn’t begin as a dog-filled story, but it has grown to include about 60 canine characters. He has drawn about half that amount so far.

Seltzer, who as an artist counts The New York Times among his clients, started an online newsletter for the project, as suggested to him by a friend. In this way he has solicited dozens of digital {read more...}

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
Associated Press And Eagle Staff

Smooth-chrooner Norah Jones recently made waves in Brooklyn — however localized they may be — for her plan to add 10 windows into the windowless side wall of the brownstone she purchased on Amity Street in January.

The proposed windows ruffled the feathers of Richard Moore, president of the board of the four-family co-op next door, which the windows would face, but yesterday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, who first {read more...}

In a show that will soon hit the Heights Players’ theater, nudity will take center stage.

Take Me Out, an all-male show, much of it set in the locker room of a professional baseball team, is full of insights about baseball, masculinity and identity {read more...}

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN – When acclaimed photographer Joel Meyrowitz was given an assignment from the city to make a photographic survey of all the city’s parks – the first to be done in 70 years -- he wasn’t sure how to begin.

Then, deep in the woods in Inwood Park in upper Manhattan, Meyrowitz saw an older man reading a book, alone with himself and the wilderness. He got back to {read more...}

I think it’s the costumes. Elaborate froths of tulle over satin and lace underwear; feather fans that pop off a frame skirt repurposed to hide a woman’s nakedness; black latex wrapped around hips, nipples covered with black electrical tape.

Cinema nearly obliterated traditional burlesque. The “girly� part of the show became peep shows and strip clubs. Comedians and variety performers found new venues. But burlesque never really died. The history of burlesque’s comeback is a complicated mix of art, {read more...}

Lynn Nottage has a penchant for subtext. Born in Brooklyn and a recent Pulitzer Prize winner, her plays often focus on the personal lives of African Americans, while at the same time create social and political critique relevant to the setting.

Intimate Apparel, which Nottage debuted in 2003 and is currently running at The Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights, revolves around Esther, an African-American, newly 35-year-old seamstress, played by Sandra Williams. She’s single, lonely and depressed, living in a {read more...}

On November 12, Dr. Roy J. Blash, president of the Academy, announced the joint merger of the school with the Ridge Chorale Theater.

Ridge Chorale consists of three separate entities: Jeff Samaha Theater Productions, Ridge Chorale Youth Theater, which {read more...}

Weiss, the son of our “From the Brooklyn Aerie� columnist David Ansel Weiss, has had a varied life as playwright, freelance writer, researcher and bartender, and has lived in several of the city’s boroughs, currently residing in Staten Island, where most of the action of Peter Pigeon takes place.

The book, a winner of the JP Morgan/Poets & {read more...}

BROOKLYN — The setting may be New Jersey and the story may concern a musician’s goal of reaching Seattle, but it’s Brooklyn that brings it all together.

A new short film, BeforeWe Get to {read more...}

BROOKLYN -- Ever since its premiere at the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1999, William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge has been gripping audiences. It went to the Metropolitan Opera in 2002 and the Washington Opera in 2007. Now it has attained new heights in the intimate loft of Vertical Player Repertory (VPR) company at 219 Court St. in Cobble Hill, not far from the Red Hook docks from which this tragic tale from the pen of famed {read more...}

By Caitlin McNamara

PARK SLOPE — Soul siren Capathia Jenkins has come a long way since she was a little girl singing at church, in school, and into a hairbrush in her Prospect Heights apartment.

She’s only moved as far as Park Slope, but everything else is different: the studio, the crowds and the partnership with Chicago-born composer and guitarist Louis Rosen, with whom she is about to release a third album.

With credentials including {read more...}

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By Marian Masone
Brooklyn Eagle

A taste of recent French cinema makes its annual appearance at BAMcinématek from November 11 to 15. The program of five films introduces a first-time filmmaker and also welcomes some familiar names back to Brooklyn.

Each year since 2002 BAM has shown a small selection of new work from France, always curated by BAM’s own Florence Almozini. She finds these films during travels to the Cannes film festival in France, seeing {read more...}