Courtney Giannone performs at a BEAT Festival fundraiser. Photo: Harry Pocius Photography Even with outdoor music festivals and the crack of recurrent thunderstorms (sometimes at the same time), Brooklyn in August can be a quiet place. We sweat, rest, es
Read Full Article atMikki Shepard, executive director of the Apollo Theater, at her office in Harlem, Feb. 6. (Deborah Yun/The Epoch Times) NEW YORK—As a child, Mikki Shepard’s father used to sneak her into Harlem’s Lenox Lounge, a historic bar where legendary musician Bill
This weekend the Brooklyn Academy of Music aka BAM will host the 3rd Annual New Voices in Black Cinema Film Festival. Presented by ActNow Foundation and BAMcinématek, it’s a weekend filled with over 35 full-length features and shorts, kicking off tonight
By FELICIA R. LEE A new, two-year project to promote an arts partnership between the United States and Cuba was announced Tuesday by the Joyce Theater Foundation and the Brooklyn Academy of Music . The project is designed to offer Cubans arts administrat
Tei Blow David Cork as Trayvon Martin in the new production of Outcry. The Clinton Hill performance space, JACK , is kicking off its first theater season tomorrow night at 8 p.m. with ”Outcry,” a new play by Thais Francis. “Outcry,” a drama written as a
MakerBot, the highly buzzed-about firm that makes consumer-grade, three-dimensional printers that output objects made of plastic, just moved into its 26,000 square foot space in the MetroTech building in downtown Brooklyn, according to The Brooklyn Paper
SCHOOL lessons will be magic for hundreds of youngsters next month. Performers in the South Tyneside International Magic Festival 2013, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, will tour the borough’s primary schools. Schools can sign-up for topi
is home to the world’s best performing artists, and we felt there should be a meaningful, annual way for them to showcase their work....