Arts & Entertainment

In the hierarchy of the shoes in your closet, where would you place your sneakers? For most Americans, that answer would be, more often than not, high. Very high.

On Saturday, July 18, the entire community is invited out to experience a special, one-day-only "workshop reading" of Daughters of the Bayou at the Weeksville Heritage Center . Written by Chelsea D. Harrison and directed by Candis C.

Multi-award-winning songwriter, producer, singer, choreographer dancer and iconic music artist Janet Jackson is not only UNBREAKABLE , she is now unstoppable thanks to her fans across North America.

On Thursday, July 23, the Brooklyn Museum presents Art Off the Wall: FAILE an evening of programs co-curated with FAILE, the Brooklyn-based collaboration between artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller.

FAILE is an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that questions society's relationship to consumer culture, religious traditions and the urban environment by blurring the boundaries between fine art, street art and popular culture.

Added to Afropunk: Kelela, Gary Clark, Jr.

Tap+Cork: Brooklyn Beer & Wine Fest , Bed-Stuy's premiere beer and wine tasting event, returns for the third year, beginning Friday, August 14 - Saturday, August 15.

Gabriel Koren stands among some her sculpture work, including (l to r) African-American Apollo 1 (1984 ), Hampton Rookard (1994), African-American Apollo 2 (1984), and Marcus Garvey (1991) Photo: Gabriel Koren Gabriel Koren is a well-known and respec

Gaston Lachaise's STANDING WOMAN Porn at our beloved Brooklyn Museum?? Katie, bar the door! I admit I'm not talking about a Playgirl centerfold elaborately framed and displayed on the 4 th floor in the Schapiro Wing. Well, not yet, at least.

Here we are in late June. The last day of school is near, the solstice just recently passed, and the July 4th weekend will soon be at hand. This means that true summer has begun.