Arts & Entertainment

WHAT: Billy Bud, an Opera -- As part of a worldwide celebration of the composer's 100th birthday, Benjamin Britten's sweeping, seafaring masterpiece comes to BAM in a spectacular production from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, helmed by Tony Award-winni

"Ms. 45" playing at BAM, Feb 7—Feb 9 It's a film series. And yep, it's pretty much what you think it is: women who seek vengeance.

In celebration of the start of Black History Month, for the next 28 days, Black Artstory Month Artwalk will showcase local black artists in 10 participating stores along Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene.

Bed-Stuy's Slave Theater Over the past two years, New Brooklyn Theater has waged a quixotic struggle to restore the long-abandoned and historic Slave Theater, located at 1215 Fulton Street, to its former status as a viable vibrant cultural meeting pl

There's a clichéd epitaph that began 70 years ago around the birth of abstract art and is still echoed today: "I can do that... a five year old can do that!" Dick Griffin, "Brooklyn," Acrylic on Canvas.

Gregory Porter Photo: jazzstl.org Finally, victory is his! Gregory Porter and his album "Liquid Spirits," produced by Brian Bacchus, won the 2014 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, which aired Sunday night.

WHAT: 2013 Katra Film Series Grand Finale -- The finalists will be considered for the Best Short Film and Audience Choice Awards.

Isabella Rossellini plays in "Green Porno" at BAM Art-house luminary Isabella Rossellini reveals the surprisingly kinky and confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this one-woman show, adapted from the celebrated Sundance Channel ser

On Monday morning, at least a dozen Bed-Stuy residents awakened to a Facebook message from cartoonist Manny Burgos. They had been tagged on a post about his comic strip, The Average Man .

WHAT: BAMCafe Live Presents: Onaje Allan Gumbs & New Vintage WHEN: Friday, Jan. 17, 9:00pm and Saturday, Jan. 18, 9:00pm WHERE: Brooklyn Academy of Music , 30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Place and St.