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The Brooklyn Beer & Wine Festival Returns to Bed-Stuy with More Events, Greater Selections

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.

Applications Open Now for 'Destination>Brooklyn' Mini-Grants

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) on Monday announced the opening of the application process for its second annual Destination>Brooklyn mini-grant program.

Photographs and Testimonies From Solitary Confinement, Pt. 2

Lorenzo Steele (r) with a former inmate Anthony Simpson conducting a prison art exhibition at New Rochelle college in 2014. Photo: Lorenzo Steele Jr. My name is Lorenzo Steele Jr.
How Do You Know?

How Do You Know?

Art And Quote By Harriet Faith It's Not Who You Know And It's Not What You Know It's How You Know.... A quote from.. .yours truly. This thought came to me as I was playin' around in my sketchbook with crayons. Yes *crayola crayons.
Fit Mind, Fit Body: Coaching While Walking!

Fit Mind, Fit Body: Coaching While Walking!

HAVE YOU BEEN WANTING TO WORK OUT IN THE MORNING AND YOU JUST CAN'T SEEM GET OUT OF BED? DO YOU WAKE UP AND RENEGOTIATE YOUR PROMISE TO EXERCISE, TURN OVER IN BED AND SAY @#$@ IT, OR DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS: GET UP AND GO WORKOUT PULL THE BLAN

Noted Sculptor Gabriel Koren Desperately Seeking New Space After Brooklyn Landlord Doubles Rent

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
Out of Brooklyn, Meet the Next Generation of XMen

Out of Brooklyn, Meet the Next Generation of XMen

Rafael "Tatu" Perez is the founder and executive director of XMental , a non-profit organization devoted to creating a safe space for at-risk youth to practice creative self-expression, develop confidence and form a positive outlook on life through m

Pornography at the Brooklyn Museum???

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.

Hamilton, Eugene and other Local Leaders Protest Mass Deportation of Haitian-Dominicans out of D.R.

City Councilmember Mathieu Eugene speaks at a press conference protesting the mass deportation of people of Haitian descent from the Dominican Republic On Wednesday, the government of the Dominican Republic put into action a plan to "repatriate" pote

Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

(l to r): Patricia Francois, Christine Lewis and Samantha Lee of Domestic Workers United, Vasudha Gupta and Anurag Gupta of Be More, and Marlon Peterson of The Precedential Group.