WENDESDAY: Triple Crossed
After glowing reviews, Fort Greene’s Irondale Center extended its run of “Passion Play,” by superstar playwright Sarah Ruhl, through June 5. A few familiar faces (like Dominic Fumusa from Nurse Jackie) perform in this triptych that traverses Elizabethan England, Nazi Germany and Reagan-era America (in 3 and a half hours!). Tickets on sale [...]

“Folk music in New York City” prompts a mental rewind to the decades when Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan played in Village coffeehouses. A few years ago a whole new slew of folk musicians revived the Village folk scene by busking in Washington Square Park. After a time they started a weekly folk/old [...]

In celebration of Mother’s Day this Sunday, we’re turning the spotlight on three extra-busy Brooklyn moms (BB’s own Nicole Davis deserves an additional shout-out here, though we’re not navel-gazing enough to profile our own publisher). In addition to mothering small children, all have launched and currently run successful and creative businesses that emphasize quality goods [...]

Nuh dash mi weh! That’s Jamaican for “don’t throw me away.” It also happens to be the name of a Jamaica-by-way-of-Brooklyn initiative that teaches reusable-bag sewing to encourage environmentalism and promote self-sustainability. Behind the campaign are two Brooklyn-based non-profits, Bags For The People and iJamaica.
BFTP holds bag-making workshops for kids and adults, hands out bags [...]

The bake sale is one of the more delectable holdovers from elementary school: Quarter by quarter, cookie by cookie, you raised money for some field trip or classroom need.
Brooklyn’s Sweet Tooth of the Tiger aims to take that idea to the next level. Native New Yorker and founder Tracy Candido describes it as, “Part D.I.Y. [...]

When the Brooklyn Dodgers outgrew Ebbets Field, club owner Walter O’Malley proposed a domed stadium, the first of its kind, to be built at the now-controversial Atlantic Yards area. The probable designer? The geodesic dome master builder himself, Richard Buckminster Fuller. But another master builder by the name of Robert Moses preferred Queens over Brooklyn, [...]

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 [...]

UPDATE!!! This Sunday, Oct. 25 we’ll be at the Flea in Dumbo from 11-6, with Martha Stewart, who’ll be taping an episode there! Here’s a map of our location. We’ll return on Halloween Saturday in Fort Greene! Below, the vendor descriptions for both days have been updated to reflect who’ll be where, when!
This weekend, BB [...]

Parking in New York City is nothing to get excited about, but Park(ing) Day, emphasis on those hugging parentheses, is another story. This annual transformation of ordinary parking spaces into public places, an event that began in San Francisco and premiered locally in Brooklyn, now happens in cities all over the world. On Friday, 55 [...]

Dying from the heat? Us too. Find some solace in these seven cool spots and treats in (and around) Brooklyn. And if you’ve got a great way to beat the dog days of August, don’t hold out on us. Add it to the list!

NYC ICY
We’ve yet to try these gourmet cream ices and sorbets, but [...]