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Back in July, BAM announced Playback, a new (hopefully recurring) film festival, would be one of the headliners of its upcoming fall program. Out the gate, given its hosts and creators-New York Liberty Governor Clara Wu Tsai, and filmmakers Spike Lee and

Two decades ago, when ramen's modern era began in this country, and in this city, we looked to the emergent genre of restaurant with great expectations. In Japan, ramen is a regional dish that changes by the prefecture. There are styles tied to specific p

Ferguson's Country is located at 732 Lorimer Street, at the corner of Bayard Street across the park, and is currently open Wednesday through Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., with weekend brunch coming later in the fall. Scott Ferguson grew up eating t

Keeping up with the culinary action in Brooklyn is almost futile. Even with our help, there aren't nearly enough meals or minutes in the day to hit them all, which is why we've been trying something new these last few weeks, sending some suggested destina

On a recent Monday at the Brooklyn Central Library, a packed house assembled to hear Shyne discuss his 30-year career in, but mostly outside of, music. It's Yom Kippur-and, by some divine force of cultural alignment, Belizean Independence Day-and the Orth

Most Saturday mornings, like this one in late summer, Michael Lombardo walks around McGolrick Park's half-mile expanse, scanning the trees with his hands as if framing a scene. The founder of the McGolrick Bird Club is hyper-aware, paying attention to eve

The Scout, like High Maintenance, is about a gig worker who travels around New York City, particularly Brooklyn, stepping into the homes of other New Yorkers for a brief glimpse of their lives, then moving on. The worker in question, Sofia (Mimi Davila),

It's a big weekend for local lovers of tangible literature. Not only is the Brooklyn Book Festival currently underway, but those in search of independent book and zine publishers to round out their reading material will find them in full force at MoMA PS1

By his own account, Ezra Abdullabekov grew up in a "mountain village in the middle of nowhere in Russia." It was not a safe place to be queer. After he was arrested and charged with spreading gay propaganda during a vigil in memory of the victims of the P

Sekou Jackson is, by his own admission, a maximalist. A native New Yorker, he grew up admiring the graffiti he'd see around the city. But while his own run hitting walls was short, as an illustrator and designer, he was left with an impulse to fill any sp