QNS News Headlines Archive for February 8, 2006

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Dining Listings The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn At the Brooklyn Museum: Journey Back to Ancestral Lands And Beyond With the Artist

Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, on view at the Brooklyn Museum, February 24-August 14, presents nearly 100 works by the celebrated African-American artist. Robinson’s mixed-media pieces draw on cultural identity, travel to anc

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Uptown Gospel In Bklyn

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts celebrates Black History Month in style the legendary Harlem Gospel Choir & The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, February 18 and with Jamaica’s own Luciano, February 25.

The world famous Harlem Gospel

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Forest Hills rabbi dies at 58

By Zach Patberg

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Discover the America You Never Knew At the Weeksville Heritage Ctr.

Step through the front door of one of the historic Hunterfly Road Houses in Brooklyn and you are transported back in time to the parlor of a free Black New Yorker in the Civil War era. Step over the threshold of another house and you’ll find yourself

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Straight Outta Brazil – It’s Carnival Time

Before Carnival celebrations begin at the end of February in Brazil, Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will bring the festivities home with a one-day conference, “Brazil Transplanted: Carnival in New York,” February 15.

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African Diaspora Film Festival

From February 17-22, BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, in collaboration with The African Diaspora Film Festival, presents The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival. This one-week series showcases 12 feature films, and

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Music Inspired By the Bard’s Best

In its annual Valentine’s program, One World Symphony features music based on the incomparable poetry of William Shakespeare, whose sublime depictions of human nature have inspired countless composers.

Performances are February 17 at 8 p.m. a

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It’s the Dirty Sock Funtime Band Live!

Family fun is assured when you take the kids to a performance of The Dirty Sock Funtime Band appearing at The Hook, 18 Commerce Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 3 p.m., February 12.

Showing kids that they rock is the aim of The Dirty Sock Funtime B

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Hercules Flexes His Musical Muscles

Baroque music ensemble Les Arts Florissants, led by its renowned founder William Christie, returns to BAM in Handel’s dramatic English opera, Hercules. This acclaimed Aix-en-Provence Festival production is presented at BAM in its U.S. premiere.
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