Both juice boxes and beer were the drinks of choice at Frolic’s holiday party at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last month, where the average attendee was about three feet tall. Iggy Pop blared on the sound system, but instead of mosh pits on the main floor there was cushy felt, perfect for crawling babies.
Juice boxes, glow bracelets, stuffed animals and cupcakes are not typical items to bring to a demonstration. Unless you’re feeding and entertaining parents and kids at an Occupy Wall Street family sleepover in Zuccotti Park. On Friday, October 21, roughly 80 parents and kids, ages three months to thirteen, spent the night in the park, [...]
There’s something funny about stuff: sometimes we never know we need it until we see it…right? Let me explain.
The Afrobeat band Antibalas played a free show in Fort Greene Park earlier this summer and the 12-piece band got the crowd moving to the rhythm of their infectious sounds. The Brooklyn-based ensemble has been playing together for more than a decade in shows from Coachella to the Tony-award winning Broadway musical “Fela!” As the [...]
After the news last week that St. Joseph’s College had applied for permits to build a new athletic center on Vanderbilt Avenue between Willoughby and DeKalb, we contacted St. Joseph’s to get more details on the planned center.
Winston is finally home, after going missing for more than a month. In August, The Local reported that the 1-year-old West Highland Terrier from Prospect Heights was stolen after running off in Prospect park. Winston’s owner, Michael Reinhardt said in an e-mail that he got a call on Sunday afternoon from a family in Brownsville, [...]
The weather on Saturday didn’t stop hot dog enthusiasts from gathering in Clinton Hill to get a taste of the Sixth Annual Great Hot Dog Cookoff. The Local has reported on the amateur cooking competition before and we relished the opportunity to be on hand for [...]
View Breast-Feeding in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in a larger map Last week The Local asked readers for their recommendations on where to breast-feed in the neighborhood, and we got some great tips from the 20 people who responded. On the map above, we have plotted the suggestions, which included Habana Outpost and Pillow [...]
Clothing designer Serena Da Conceicao, 32, applied to be on the reality show Project Runway twice, but only made it on camera once.
New Yorkers are passionate about eating, going to great lengths to seek out all-natural , local and authentic dishes. But eating out is expensive and cooking can be daunting, especially if you’ve never tried to make anything from scratch. Enter Chrissy’s Cooking Club, a nonprofit based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that aims to make learning how [...]
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