By Paulanne Simmons
"We all use each other and that’s
what we think of as love," says Catherine Holly in Tennessee
Williams’ "Suddenly Last Summer," The Sackett Group’s
inaugural show at the Brooklyn Music School Playhouse.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
The hills of Prospect Park are going to
be alive with Robert Wise’s Oscar-winning 1965 film, "The
Sound of Music," on July 29 at 7:30 pm. According to Celebrate
Brooklyn’s Jack Walsh, the film will be shown in Cinemascope
on the band shell’s 50-foot-wide, 22-foot-tall screen "as
it was meant to be seen."
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By Lisa J. Curtis
On July 24 at 3 pm, the Coney Island Museum
will host an artist’s reception for "Philomena Marano: (still)
Under the Influence."
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By Eleazer Gorenstein
Brooke Ellison,
who at age 11 was hit by a car and left paralyzed from the neck
down, has defied the odds. Despite her handicap, she graduated
with honors from Harvard University in 2000 and her life inspired
a film.
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By Eleazer Gorenstein
A silver shovel that Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia used to break ground at Brooklyn College’s Midwood campus
in 1935 now stands erect in the center of the college library,
like a statue commemorating the beginning of a celebrated legacy.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Watching the microphone-wielding cabaret
singer, dressed in a black bow tie and white, double-breasted
jacket, at the Triad Theatre in Manhattan Tuesday night was a
blast from the past, indeed. Bay Ridge native Martin McQuade
sang Bing Crosby songs from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, and even
showed off the crooner’s merchandise from that time period: a
vintage mousetrap and ice cream box.
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By Tina Barry
Albano Ballerini,
one of the pioneers of Vanderbilt Avenue’s new culinary renaissance,
has opened a second outpost, Amorina Cucina Rustica, across the
avenue from his first idiosyncratic cafe, Aliseo Osteria del
Borgo.
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By Tina Barry
What is a neighborhood restaurant? It depends
on the neighborhood. In Park Slope, bistros abound; ditto for
Smith Street in Boerum Hill. In Bay Ridge, locals have flocked
to 101 Restaurant & Bar since its opening, 14 years ago.
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