We’ve always thought that celebrating Mardi Gras in Brooklyn seemed sacrilegious in some way–even more so than Bastille Day or Chinese New Year’s. Like, if you’re going to do it, do it right and go to New Orleans. This year though, there are so many festivities taking place (even in the snow!) we’ve changed our [...]

Baby, it’s bad out there, so Brooklyn Botanic Garden is reconvening the Linnaean Libation League inside the Steinhardt Conservatory on Saturday, February 27, for refreshing drinks amid the succulents and palm trees.
The theme of the latest LLL cocktail party–Palm Springs, California, circa 1959–gives guests a chance to step back in time for a quick winter [...]

Say you want to learn how to sing in harmony, but instead of paying for music class, you pay your teacher with socks. Which don’t even have to match.
Or maybe you’d like to teach people basic photography skills, and will accept any kind of payment so long as it’s in the form of Legos, sharp [...]

WEDNESDAY: Curiouser and Curiouser
Go down the rabbit hole with the Irondale Ensemble in their site-specific production of alice…Alice…ALICE. The family-friendly show, based on Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, leads audience members through all sorts of Wonderland-esque nooks and crannies found in Fort Greene’s Irondale Center and features both scripted and improvised dialogue, as well as original [...]

Mark Simmons, the former Top Chef contender with the dreamy New Zealand accent, has won Brooklyn acclaim for his simple and hearty fare (like Whole Hog Sunday) at Park Slope’s Get Fresh Market and Table. He recently took over the executive chef post at Melt (Bergen St. near 5th Avenue) and you can often spot [...]

As you get ready to kiss 2009 goodbye, we leave you with a few farewell tunes handpicked by The Bell House’s Jack McFadden (who also happens to be answering questions this week for the City Room). To continue what’s become a bit of a tradition, he picked his top 10 favorite songs by bands that [...]

Our friends at the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs and The Meat Hook have some fantastic classes planned for January, any of which would make a great Christmas present for the culinarily inclined. From kitchen basics like soups and sauces to more advanced moves like braising, there are plenty of cooking classes on the list, as well [...]

In Jonathan Lethem’s new novel Chronic City, he leaves his familiar Brooklyn haunts and enters the anonymous Upper East Side, where the moneyed and the mundane co-exist. The book’s overarching theme is deciphering between the real and the fake, and in the process Lethem blends together unreal moments from the city’s recent past (remember the [...]

Maybe you’re a Briton living in New York. Or maybe you’re just an Anglophile with a fondness for Morrissey, an unhealthy interest in Prince William, and a bad habit of spelling “colors as “colours.” Either way, this is your guide to living Britishly in Brooklyn. From partying to eating to shopping, here’s how to maximize [...]

Halloween falls on a a Saturday this year, all the better for spooky fun. There are so many haunted houses, costume parades and general mayhem to choose from that we put together a few of our favorite events to make it easier to plan a bewitching evening (and pre-Halloween partying).
Steampunk Invasion
After last year’s blowout [...]