Sneak peak: check out the finished product on Sunday!
Here’s another reason to take advantage of tomorrow’s Heart of Brooklyn Free Summer Sunday cultur-palooza with free admission and special programs at six BK institutions including Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo and the carousel: Brokelyn will be there with sweet surprises! Come say hi to Team Brokelyn at our table in Grand Army Plaza next to the (free) Brooklyn Icons mini-golf, from 12-5pm. In addition to games and Brooklyn-themed goodies, we’ve got a big present for you: the debut of our brand-new, super-stylish Brokelyn t-shirts! The designers shirts come from Brooklyn Royalty‘s Bob Bland and sell for only $20.
(In the event of rain, we’ll be in the Brooklyn Public Library)
Zoo photo via Flickr's Ann Marie Hughes
Pack up the kids, call your friends in from the suburbs and start massaging your brain so it’s ready to soak in some juicy local culture: on Aug. 7, you get free access to Brooklyn’s six big culture institutions all day long. Heart of Brooklyn’s Free Summer Sunday provides free entry to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Prospect Park carousel and a special exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library. Plus, free Brooklyn Icons mini golf at Grand Army Plaza, prizes, raffles and more. And Brokelyn is proud to be a web partner for the event! Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
7pm: textile arts center’s kimberly hall discusses the appeal of handmade items, followed by a silent auction for scarves crafted by ‘virgin’ knitters. free wine + cheese! gowanus.
9pm (doors): this month’s dig deeper ‘60s soul party at southpaw features syl johnson (his 1967 ‘different strokes‘ has been sampled by wu-tang clan and others) and the sweet divines. southpaw, $15. Read the rest of this entry »
We heard mom's been hitting the parenting blogs... hard.
There’s no prize to win here or any free drinks to be drunk—only a cute way to spend a few minutes of your time. The Prospect Park Zoo just announced the birth of two baby baboons (actually born in late July) who are in need of some proper names. The two boys, known for now as Baby Baboon 1 and… wait for it… Baby Baboon 2, are the first Hamadryas baboons born at the zoo in six years. Since the two moms, Kaia and Rebecca, might not be up on this year’s hottest names (Aiden & Jayden, but we say Bedford & Stuyvesant), the zoo’s turning to all of us. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, photo by AMRosario
Bah to those fat cats in Albany, they of the not-allowing-wine-in-grocery-stores infamy, they of the no-go on gay marriage. And now, they could be hacking away at our access to real cats with huge proposed cuts to the budgets that pay for living museums such as zoos, aquariums and botanic gardens.
Gov. David Paterson has proposed a near 50 percent cut in funding in response to the budget crunch (somebody hasn’t been reading their Brokelyn…). It would affect the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Prospect Park Zoo and about 80 other aquariums or or other destinations that feature living exhibits across the city and state. The Botanic Garden sent out the following plea and call to action, and their director of government affairs is in Albany right now lobbying to save the funding: Read the rest of this entry »
wishin you some 3-D love, via someecards
What are you doing to celebrate luuuurve day? Yes, we know some of you will be toasting to amore with some of the finest beers in the borough, thanks to the Brokelyn Beer Book. What if you don’t have an amore to share the love with? Our pals at the skint have put together an excellent and extensive roundup of great events across the city in the next few days, incuding a pajama-clad Meatup at the Bell House (dance floor makeout forecast: 100 percent), dinner deals, high-tech sex seminars and a bunch of places to go to commiserate with the fellow broken-hearted. Read the rest of this entry »
Prospect Park Carousel photo, Amy Rathgeb.
If you think the Carousel, zoo and acres of romp-worthy fields make Prospect Park a child-friendly place, well… you’re right, and there’s about to be more for the summer. Starting today, and on every Friday through August, the park will host Heart of Brooklyn’s Family Fridays, a weekly day of animals, education and snacks at the park’s Children’s Corner (entrance at Ocean Ave., Flatbush Ave. & Empire Blvd.). Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
8pm: comedy + music promoters creaghead + company’s ‘mandatory office party‘ presents an evening of comedy with rob cantrell, brooke van poppelen, sean patton, tom shillue, barry rothbart, and host caroline creaghead. plus, $7 creag nog and captain drink special. union hall, $8. Read the rest of this entry »
Sneak peak: check out the finished product on Sunday!
Here’s another reason to take advantage of tomorrow’s Heart of Brooklyn Free Summer Sunday cultur-palooza with free admission and special programs at six BK institutions including Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo and the carousel: Brokelyn will be there with sweet surprises! Come say hi to Team Brokelyn at our table in Grand Army Plaza next to the (free) Brooklyn Icons mini-golf, from 12-5pm. In addition to games and Brooklyn-themed goodies, we’ve got a big present for you: the debut of our brand-new, super-stylish Brokelyn t-shirts! The designers shirts come from Brooklyn Royalty‘s Bob Bland and sell for only $20.
(In the event of rain, we’ll be in the Brooklyn Public Library)
Zoo photo via Flickr's Ann Marie Hughes
Pack up the kids, call your friends in from the suburbs and start massaging your brain so it’s ready to soak in some juicy local culture: on Aug. 7, you get free access to Brooklyn’s six big culture institutions all day long. Heart of Brooklyn’s Free Summer Sunday provides free entry to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Prospect Park carousel and a special exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library. Plus, free Brooklyn Icons mini golf at Grand Army Plaza, prizes, raffles and more. And Brokelyn is proud to be a web partner for the event! Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY
7pm: textile arts center’s kimberly hall discusses the appeal of handmade items, followed by a silent auction for scarves crafted by ‘virgin’ knitters. free wine + cheese! gowanus.
9pm (doors): this month’s dig deeper ‘60s soul party at southpaw features syl johnson (his 1967 ‘different strokes‘ has been sampled by wu-tang clan and others) and the sweet divines. southpaw, $15. Read the rest of this entry »
We heard mom's been hitting the parenting blogs... hard.
There’s no prize to win here or any free drinks to be drunk—only a cute way to spend a few minutes of your time. The Prospect Park Zoo just announced the birth of two baby baboons (actually born in late July) who are in need of some proper names. The two boys, known for now as Baby Baboon 1 and… wait for it… Baby Baboon 2, are the first Hamadryas baboons born at the zoo in six years. Since the two moms, Kaia and Rebecca, might not be up on this year’s hottest names (Aiden & Jayden, but we say Bedford & Stuyvesant), the zoo’s turning to all of us. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, photo by AMRosario
Bah to those fat cats in Albany, they of the not-allowing-wine-in-grocery-stores infamy, they of the no-go on gay marriage. And now, they could be hacking away at our access to real cats with huge proposed cuts to the budgets that pay for living museums such as zoos, aquariums and botanic gardens.
Gov. David Paterson has proposed a near 50 percent cut in funding in response to the budget crunch (somebody hasn’t been reading their Brokelyn…). It would affect the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Prospect Park Zoo and about 80 other aquariums or or other destinations that feature living exhibits across the city and state. The Botanic Garden sent out the following plea and call to action, and their director of government affairs is in Albany right now lobbying to save the funding: Read the rest of this entry »
wishin you some 3-D love, via someecards
What are you doing to celebrate luuuurve day? Yes, we know some of you will be toasting to amore with some of the finest beers in the borough, thanks to the Brokelyn Beer Book. What if you don’t have an amore to share the love with? Our pals at the skint have put together an excellent and extensive roundup of great events across the city in the next few days, incuding a pajama-clad Meatup at the Bell House (dance floor makeout forecast: 100 percent), dinner deals, high-tech sex seminars and a bunch of places to go to commiserate with the fellow broken-hearted. Read the rest of this entry »
Prospect Park Carousel photo, Amy Rathgeb.
If you think the Carousel, zoo and acres of romp-worthy fields make Prospect Park a child-friendly place, well… you’re right, and there’s about to be more for the summer. Starting today, and on every Friday through August, the park will host Heart of Brooklyn’s Family Fridays, a weekly day of animals, education and snacks at the park’s Children’s Corner (entrance at Ocean Ave., Flatbush Ave. & Empire Blvd.). Read the rest of this entry »
