Day: February 6, 2019

Music, Nightlife

RED HOOK CONCERT CALENDAR: February 2019, compiled by Jaimie Branch

* critics pick Bene’s RECORD SHOP* 360 Van Brunt St. 718-855-0360 Shows 8:30PM unless otherwise printed. Check local listings! DE-Construkt 41 Seabring St. Check local listings! IBEAM 168 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Ave. Shows at 8PM unless otherwise printed. SAT 2/2, 8:30PM Fujiwara/Dunston/Leon* Tomas Fujiwara – drums Nick Dunston – bass David Leon – saxophone WED 2/6 Russ […]

Food

NYC Restaurant Week Winter ’19: South Brooklyn Edition

There’s no need to leave the borough for delicious food and fine dining, South Brooklynites! Here are the neighborhood eateries that are participating in NYC Restaurant Week Winter ’19 (Jan. 21 – Feb. 8), according to nycgo.com. Prices listed below are per guest and do not include beverages, taxes or gratuity. Benchmark Restaurant – New American steakhouse (Park Slope) Chef […]

Real Estate, Red Hook Stories

Space

I live in a 1,200 square foot apartment with three other adults. I share a room with my boyfriend, Eli, and we live with his sister, Tara, and her boyfriend, Andrew. This familial setup can be difficult to describe in casual conversation, “My boyfriend’s sister’s boyfriend is also my roommate…” I enjoy our family arrangement and I like to imagine […]

Film

Film reviews:  Vice; Cold War

Vice Adam Mckay’s latest film “Vice” begins with a dramatically posed question from an unspecified narrator: how is a man like Dick Cheney (played by Christian Bale)- a man who as the vice-president expanded executive power and drastically increased America’s foreign influence almost invisibly-made? For all its initial emphasis on Cheney’s subtlety and self-erasure from politics, the film mirrors none […]