With fall back-to-school themes inundating all areas of life, October is that time of year to transition your outdoor drinking routine to something more erudite and sweater-worthy. But as working hours grow longer and daylight peters out earlier, making the time to explore new haunts gets harder. A local happy hour is always an option, but the potential for mind-expansion is limited when you’re downing well drinks while watching your buddy karaoke to Ariana Grande.
Enter book readings, the best cover for taking the edge off while engaging in light brainwork since trivia nights and nerdy bingo.
Our borough is home to both some of the best authors and independent bookstores in the country. You’ve Got Mail may have been set in Manhattan, but we have our own local Fox Books and Meg Ryans to root for. And since this is Brooklyn, after all, we show our support by pairing intellectual curiosity with alcohol (be it free boxed wine at the event itself, or a quick trip to the local wine store across the street).
Here’s a selection of boozy book events the month of October has in (book)store for Brooklyn readers: (more…)
Ahh, bar bingo. It’s not just your granny’s game anymore. These days, bingo is just a great way to gamble, drink beer, and swear a lot when the person next to you screams out their win as if an alien is erupting from their chest cavity.
Bar bingo took Brooklyn by storm around ’08, but has sadly died down with new fads like bar trivia and the never-ending comeback of karaoke. And while many local spots like Union Hall and Bell House do host bingo-related events once in awhile, demonic websites like Yelp and other internet info sources are usually out of date.
Now B4 you freak out, we here at Brokelyn dug deep into the ball basket and found out where you can still feed your bingo addiction on a weekly basis! So grab your bingo markers and remember the ‘ole saying: Try not to take your bingo too seriously, because at the end of the day you will find that it’s just a load of balls.(more…)
Throw on the Psycho theme, because we’re ready for the ultimate spook. You could stay in bed and watch a scary movie (probably with the lights on, wimp) but what will you do about the lingering shadows keeping you up at night?
If haunted houses aren’t your cup of blood, watching a scary movie in a theatre is the next best scare: that slight chill from the air conditioning, the hushed whisper and focus of everyone waiting for what happens next, the swell of suspenseful music that inevitably leads to someone starting to scream profanities at the screen.
In that spirit (get it?), here’s Brokelyn’s spooktacular roundup of scary movie showings all around the borough. We’ll keep updating this list with additional series as they are announced. In the meantime, head to these movies, and keep the creepy clown costumes at home (also burn them). (more…)
These guys never get old (except for real life, they’ve definitely aged in real life).
Once a year, in an attempt to placate New York’s bike commuter population and keep its membership base intact after things like this happen, Citi Bike hosts a bike-in movie night in Prospect Park. It’s a real fun way to spend an evening, so long as you don’t mind a little spatial negotiation with all the other folks looking for prime picnic spots.
Next Thursday, September 22, you can bike yourself and your gear into Prospect Park to watch The Goonies — a somewhat uninspired choice, considering it’s a regular on almost every outdoor movie series in Brooklyn. But at least it’ll get you a dose of 80s nostalgia straight to the veins. And is it just me, or is there something about Sloth that eerily resembles Donald Trump? (more…)
Healthy competition is good for all of us, and healthy competition among our city’s beaches only means we have more summery love to spread around to this city’s eight million people. Coney Island and Rockaway are very different kinds of places — the latter is of course more of a boardwalk amusement park, with amenities trending toward Times Square-ishness lately, while Rockaway is embracing its arty, grungy surf vibe. And now, as of last year, they both have parades featuring the march of sea creatures. Coney Island’s famous Mermaid Parade kicks off summer every June; now Rockaway has its own Poseidon’s Parade to close out the season in September on the boardwalk, which this year finally finished its post-Sandy rebuild.
The event, held this Saturday, is inspired by the peninsula’s annual in the Mermaid Parade, which means it’s a family friendly art-parade full of costumes, creativity and floats, and celebrates the Queens neighborhood’s resilience after the storm destroyed many homes (many of which are still not rebuilt btw). And since it’s a new event, it probably won’t be filled with #brands trying to get your attention just yet. (more…)
The Brooklyn Book Festival is necessary methadone that helps wean us off quitting summer cold turkey. The day-long event on Sunday reminds us why fall in New York is pretty great too, as we put away the tank tops and jorts and instead pull up our big pile of books and don our best reading flannels. The annual festival is Bonnaroo for Brooklyn book worms and Lollapalooza for lit lovers, an all-you-can-eat buffet of free readings, talks and author appearance that takes over downtown Brooklyn, jam-packed with stars and illuminati of the printed word. With dozens of events on the docket this year that include heavyweights like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Jacqueline Woodson, it can be a bit overwhelming if you’re unprepared.
We made a guide to help you navigate the vast library of choices. Here are Brokelyn’s top 10 picks for what not to miss at the Brooklyn Book Festival this year so you can take in the best of the fest, from important discussions of gentrification and voting to a fun journey into the intersection of literature and comedy. All the events are free and entrance is first-come, first-served. (more…)
At a Celebrate Brooklyn! show in Prospect Park last year, performance artist Taylor Mac described drag as “taking everything you feel about yourself and the world on the inside, and wearing it on the outside.” With Bushwick’s fifth annual Bushwig drag festival coming up on September 10, Mac’s definition feels 2016 essential. There has never been a more important time to watch New York’s drag artists wear and perform their respective worldviews.
Bushwig’s price tag is steep — even earlybird weekend passes are $40 — but if you’re still keen to see the queens, there’s a way to get into this year’s festival AND see all of the shows for free: volunteer! Bushwick Daily reports that Bushwig is still looking for a few able-bodied helpers to lend a hand next weekend.
If you’ve never heard of Bushwig before, here’s a taste of what to expect. It’s a raucous, two-day festival in Bushwick that draws attendees in the thousands and promises all kinds of wild, whoop-inducing drag performances. Due to re-location this year’s venue is, somewhat fittingly, in Queens. (more…)
Naked actors from the Torn Out Theater troupe during a previous performance of The Tempest. Via website.
Shakespeare in the Park is a great free summer thing to do, but tickets are impossible to get and you’ve got to go all the way into Manhattan to sit in Central Park theater for hours, where you run the risk of losing you WNYC totebag among all the other WNYC totebags in attendance. Brooklyn has a few of our own versions; now we’re getting a new one that definitely feels more at home in our borough than tony enclaves of the Upper West Side.
A troupe of female actors is doing a run of all-nude performances of Shakespeare’s The Tempest starting Sept. 7. As the Brooklyn Paper reports today: “The show’s male director says that the stripped-down show is designed to promote body positivity — but he also knew that using unclad actors would create some conversation.” Director Pitr Strait told the paper: “We asked ‘How do we work nudity into the play so Shakespeare doesn’t get swallowed up and so the huge, distracting thing works for us?'” And while nudity is illegal in NYC (but not toplessness!), the city makes special exceptions for performance art. In short, these ladies will really bard it all for you. (more…)
When it gets to be the picture on the left, you’ll wish you took more advantage of the one on the right.
September is a stalking and devious predator, lurking just off the distance over the horizon, ready to pounce and ensnare you in its constricting flannels, outrageously long pants and infuriatingly pumpkin-spiced things as soon as a cool breeze rolls in. You may be looking at the temperature this past week and think a you would welcome a chill in the air, but your brain is deceiving you. Once the first cold snap tightens its grip around the city you will stretch the gossamer of your memory back to these days, these hot August weekends, and wonder why the foolish dolt that was Past You didn’t take more advantage of them.
Let us take this time to give you this public service announcement: Use these next few weeks to soak up as much beach time as you can and store it in your internal batteries until you need it later. It’s a good time to remember that our friends at the NYC Beach Bus offer the easiest way to get to the beach, without having to worry about train transfers, subway delays or crowded city buses: They’ll take you to the beach for just $15 round trip, and you get a free beer from Sixpoint or Sweetwater and other swag too. Plus, their Boerum Hill pick-up spot is selling homemade ice cream, AND you can now find our summer tank tops there while supplies last! Summer hard now, your future self will thank you. (more…)
The view from Sunset Park’s Bush Terminal ain’t too shabby. Photo via Scott Steinhardt /Brokelyn
In 2014, a major revitalization project began to change Sunset Park. Next to the neighborhood’s decommissioned piers and shipyards, new occupants started to replace the multitude of adult video stores and industrial warehouses near the shore. Industry City opened, and along with it came a rash of expensive food options with odd operating hours. Micro Center, a Best Buy competitor, opened its doors (with a Bed Bath & Beyond due to join it in the coming months).Once-occupied buildings were being reoccupied by newer, hipper tenants willing to pay a lot more. For a place that kept quiet for the last decade or so, it sure was making its fair share of noise.
Among the new retail chains and makeshift EDM venues, however, was a small piece of heaven tucked away behind condemned warehouses and leftover trolley tracks. After decades and planning and two years of building, Bush Terminal Park quietly opened its gates in November of 2014 on the corner of 43rd Street and 1st Avenue. Yet nearly two years later, residents living in proximity to the park still do not know of its existence. (more…)


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Telangana: As the nation undergoing with the second corona wave, covid protocols went for a toss in Hyderabad’s Charminar market on Thursday. Large number of people were seen shopping and flouting covid norms of maintaining social distancing and wearing face masks.
After this, the city police registered the cases against the violators. DCP South Zone says, “There have been some violations in some parts of the city & we have been booking a lot of cases against such violators, especially in and around Charminar.”
“Since 20th April, night curfew implemented in Hyderabad city & all over Telangana. We’ve booked 698 cases for not wearing masks, 146 cases for not maintaining social distancing norms, 4 cases of large public gatherings, 253 cases of night curfew violation”, DCP South Zone added.

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The hours were long at Patmore's during the spring and I rode to and from work on my 10-speed bike. By the fall of the year we had saved enough money to buy a car from my brother, Dave, and we moved out of the city to a small house in Forrest. I worked all winter in the green houses at Patmore's. By the spring of 1974 Amy and I were getting itchy feet and moved back to Basswood. My Dad was the Regional Director of Manitoba for the National Farmers Union. He spent a lot of time away from the farm so Randy and I looked after the farm for him during the summer and fall of 1974.
During the fall of 1974 we received an offer to become involved in a Co-operative Community at Birtle, MB. The Co-operative was set up in the old Indian Residential School. I would be the horticultural specialist for the community and we would be paid by the Company of Young Canadians as volunteers. We moved to Birtle in January of 1975. The Co-operative was short lived and, by spring, almost all of the members recognized that the community was not for them.
I was rehired at Patmore's as the Nursery Foreman and Amy worked seasonally in the greenhouse. We lived in a house a mile north of the Brandon Airport for the next three years. During this time our second son, Michael Randall, was born on December 2, 1976. The house north of Brandon had a big yard and was the scene of many family gatherings and much gardening and mowing of grass.
In the late fall of 1977 I applied for a job as
urseryman at Riding Mountain National Park. I was offered a job and began work at the Park on January 3, 1978. Once again the family was on the move, this time to Erickson. In the spring of 1978, Amy and I started to build a house in Onanole. It was a family affair, with every able bodied member from each side of the family pitch ing in to help at one time or another. My Dad was the constmction consultant with both David and Randy contributing their new bricklaying and electrical skills respectively. By Febmary of 1979, the family moved in and spent the next ten years in Onanole.
During these years another son, Jonathon Richard, was born on December 4, 1982. Donald and Michael started school and Amy and I became involved in the community.
We were both active on the broom ball team and I became active with the new Onanole Fire Dept. and was eventually the Chief. During these years 1 became the head gardener in the Park and also the local union president.
In 1987, I was still working seasonally in the Park and the economy was in a steady decline. The decision was made to sell our house in Onanole and reinvest the money in more affordable property.
The family moved to a small house outside Erickson at NW 2-18-18. Donald started grade nine and Michael started grade five in Erickson. We stayed for 1 year and
then moved into the farm house on Fred and Eleanor Brown's farm by Basswood. We stayed for two years at Basswood and enjoyed being close to our old home communities but also missed the forest and the lakes and streams of the Park.
In the spring of 1990, we took possession on a 114 section of land on the Rolling River Valley known as the old McDermott Ranch, SE 20-18-17W. As we began researching the history of the ranch we were stmck by the strong connections between the property and the people who lived here and the Proven family and the farm at Basswood. The ranch and sawmill had first been built by a man named Frank Engman. Engman married a woman by the name of Maria Getty. By all accounts he married her for her money and was a very abusive man whom expected Maria to do all of the domestic work, which meant constantly serving the sawmill gangs. In 1907, she became very ill. According to a history done in April of 1980 by R. O. Crawley;
"She was rescued from her plight by an old friend, Mrs. Jim Proven, (Edith Wake) who took her into her home and tried to nurse her back to health. It was too late, Maria's sturdy Irish spirit had left her, and she had little desire to live. She died March 7, 1907, and was buried in All Saint's Cemetery, north of Clanwilliam." Her tombstone can be found in the Proven family plot with the inscription, "Come unto Me, and I will give you rest."
Another connection was found in this history that regards the bam. The foundation for the bam is still on the property. According to the history, it was built "sometime during the 1890's" and the style of constmction and dimen sions are almost identical to the bam at Basswood, which was built in 1899-1900. Large stone walls and the Ontario style, post and beam constmction, would lead us to believe that the same carpenters and masons would have built both barns, one after the other.
Since there were no buildings on the 112, we began in a house trailer, and since have constmcted a shop/garage/greenhouse from two salvaged barns. In the fall of 1993 we moved the Len and V ema Averill house onto the property. The house was built in 1919 and required complete renovation. Even though we insulated, rewired, replumbed and renovated the floors, the original charac ter of the house will remain intact.
During the time we have spent here at 20-18-17, our family has grown up. Donald has graduated from high school and spent several years working before entering the University of Manitoba in the fall of 1994 and then the University of Saskatoon. In the fall of 1999 Donald and his partner, Roselle Myko, moved to Winnipeg. Donald is working with his Uncle Randy, building R2000 homes, and Roselle is taking her Masters at the University of Manitoba's Natural Resource Institute. Michael has worked the last 3 years, spending summers working at the Clear

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