No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America Thursday, August 2 at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Darnell Moore,…
Fancy Food Court, Gotham Market, Plunks Down in Fort Greene
With the opening of Gotham Market in Fort Greene this weekend, Brooklyn gained yet another fancy food market, adding to our city’s ever-growing assortment of what…
‘Let’s Go Crazy’ at Prince Celebration in Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn BP Says
Will it be as uplifting as the impromptu tributes across New York City or the Purple Rain Day second line in New Orleans? It remains…
9 Words That (Attempt To) Describe AfroPunk
It’s hard to fit AfroPunk into a box, which is kind of the point. The annual two-day music festival at Barry Commodore Park in Brooklyn…
Week in Film: Blue Tops Filming Blue Tops and Kidnapping at the Hands of Crazed Makeup Man
Sup film lovers? We’ve got some new things and old things for you this week, as usual. But this time around even our new film…
Watch Your Fixie Become a Star of the Stage in ‘Bike Shop: The Musical’
Liz Barkan’s one-woman bike-themed off-off-Broadway musical is not autobiographical. Well, OK, it kind of is. The part about owning a bike shop is true. The…
In Five Star, Keith Miller’s Leading Man Is a General in the East New York Bloods
Keith Miller’s latest film grew out of his 2011 short, “Gang Bangin’ 101.” In that two-minute doc, James “Primo” Grant – a burly, bearded Brooklyn…