This week in Brooklyn, New Yorkers will get the chance to attend live performances of musicians who play a significant role in the ongoing political revolutions in the Middle East and in North Africa.
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March 4, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
An Art Project For Everyone
A Williamsburg’s library of 26,000 sketchbooks began its 2013 tour.
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February 27, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Video
[VIDEO] Brooklyn Woodworkers Combine Art with Environmentalism
For the past two years, the Tri-Lox worshop, located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has been producing furniture, decor and art installations made predominantly from reclaimed materials. Instead of cutting down more of our forests, the men behind Tri-Lox have come up with unique ways to give old wood a new life.
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February 27, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Video
[VIDEO] Welcome to the Punderdome
The PUNDERDOME is Brooklyn’s monthly improv pun-making competition, hosted by a self-proclaimed “Rodney Dangerfield impersonator,” Fred Firestone, and his “alleged” daughter, Jo Firestone. Eighteen contestants participate in spontaneous punning in 6-person rounds, and Fred and Jo decide the pun topics for each round. Contestants are eliminated as the audience determines who goes on, with the...
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February 27, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Video
[VIDEO] Dungeons and Dragons Come to Life in Bushwick
Dwarvenforge from The Brooklyn Ink on Vimeo. Dwarvenforge owner and founder, Stefan Pokorny, takes his hand-crafted Dungeons and Dragons boards and miniatures out of his studio and into the basement of Tutu’s Restaraunt in Bushwick where gamers partake in a “theatrical Dungeons and Dragons” game.
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February 25, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Man Finds Art in Debris Washed Up on Brooklyn Shores
We walk by litter every day. One creative Brooklynite takes a more thoughtful approach to flotsam.
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February 17, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Multimedia, Video
[VIDEO] Trading Talent for Healthcare
Robert Daniels Trades Talent for Healthcare from The Brooklyn Ink on Vimeo. Robert Daniels, 64, is a retired teacher and painter who trades his artistic talents for health coverage at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. The Lincoln Art Exchange program, now in its first year, pays artists – whether painters, dancers and singers – $40...
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February 16, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Four-Alarm Blaze Destroys Pratt Students’ Artwork
Pratt Institute students and faculty are finding ways to deal with the fire that destroyed years' worth of student art early Friday morning.
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February 14, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Video
[VIDEO] A Brooklyn Art Gallery with a Twist
The League Education and Treatment Center's LAND Studio and Gallery is a program for adult artists with developmental disabilities. Carlo Daleo, 51, does animation, paints, and draws. His work is inspired by the musicians and performers he grew up admiring, like Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Welk.
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February 12, 2013September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Clinton Hill Play Memorializes Black Victims of Violence
"Outcry" tells the story of Trayvon Martin and other murdered young black men. It is playing in Clinton Hill through Feb. 24.