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This Weekend: A Love Bazaar Brings the Essence of Carnival to Warm the Winter Months!

La Paloma Vintage and the Shamanic Stylist present another installment of A Love Bazaar-- swirling some color into this wintry snowscape, shining sun into your soul, and bringing the heat, as we head into Women's History Month and Carnaval season! Fo
Interfaith Medical Center: More Money, More Problems

Interfaith Medical Center: More Money, More Problems

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BAMcafé Live Presents Akie Bermiss Trio

Photo: BAM This Saturday, February 28 at BAMcafé Live is Brooklyn-bred singer, keyboardist and composer Akie Bermiss. Bermiss possesses a soulful voice that packs an emotional wallop.

Volunteer Ambulance Corps Receives Proclamation by City Council for its Life-Saving Work in Bed-Stuy

City Councilmember Robert Cornegy and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito honored the Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) on Thursday as first responders to the shooting of Officers Ramos and Liu in December.

Report: More Than 100,000 NY Students Enrolled in Failing Schools

Photo: www.ktul.com More than 109,000 students are enrolled in one of the 178 New York public schools that are deemed to be failing, according to a report from the governor's office, State of Politics writes.

Community Leaders, Elected Officials, Mentors and others Join Susan L. Taylor to Show 'Brooklyn Cares'

(l to r): Chair of the Cares Mentoring Movement Queens ; Tammy Samms, Chair of the Cares Mentoring Movement Brooklyn; Susan L.

Weeksville Heritage Center Holds Book Talk: Voices Beyond Bondage

Join Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis at Weeksville Heritage Center on Friday, February 27, where they will discuss their new book Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century .

Three Brooklyn Men Taken into Custody Behind Alleged Terrorist Plot

Image: tribune.com.pk Three Brooklyn men were taken into custody Wednesday, after their alleged plot was revealed to travel to Syria and join ISIS and if they failed, return to the U.S. to plant bombs in Brooklyn, reported CBS New York .

Mayor Expected to Address City's Minimum Wage Today in Albany

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo Photo: Office of Gov.
Sir Edmund Hillary On Conquering Mountains

Sir Edmund Hillary On Conquering Mountains

Hand-Lettered Art By Harriet Faith. Quote By Sir Edmund Hillary. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first humans to climb to the top of Mount Everest, the highest point in the world, at 29,028 ft.