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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

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A whole year to be an absolute ‘boar’

In anticipation of the Lunar New Year on February 18, Brooklyn Children’s Museum welcomes the Year of the Boar with Planet Brooklyn: Chinese New Year, February 10 from 12-5 p.m.

The museum’s Planet Brooklyn series spotlights the diverse
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Black history rises off the page at the BPL

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) invites you to celebrate Black History Month with a variety of free cultural programs.

Come to a movie screening of All on a Mardi Gras Day, February 17 at 2 p.m. in the Central Library’s Trustees Room, third
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Have dinner with ‘The Lady Eve’

In honor of Valentine’s Day, BAMcinématek, BAM Rose Cinemas’ repertory film program, presents dinner and a movie with a special screening of Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve (1941) with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. BAMcafé will
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It’s the Return of the ‘Scopitones’

The show opens with a Scodown benefit party on February 17 at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 or $7 with student ID. The exhibition runs to March 4 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays through Mondays.

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Showtime for classic cinema

The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) highly successful Senior Cinema program returns, bringing a wide variety of film classics to the big screen. A bi-monthly film series at BAM Rose Cinemas (in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at 30 Lafayette Avenue),
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Hey kids, pass the popcorn and milk duds

Big Movies for Little Kids, Cobble Hill’s own popular, innovative film series for children continues its very successful run on February 12 with beloved children’s classic stories including Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings (a famil
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Motown greats

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents Mary Wilson of the Supremes and The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards on February 17 at 8 p.m.

Brooklyn Center’s Red Hot Valentine’s Concert features an eveni
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The Trapezoids: Music set free

The Trapezoids, a jazz guitar trio, bring their talent to Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, between Hamilton and Woodhull avenues in Red Hook, Brooklyn, February 9 at 9 p.m. There is an $8 cover charge.

Ila Cantor’s Trapezoids is an exploration of
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Toot, Toot, Tootsie, don’t cry, here’s Al

Brooklyn’s own Al Jolson enthusiast and the New York representative of The Inernational Al Jolson Society, Bob Daniels, will present a musical concert and photo biography as part of the Monthly Speaker Series for Seniors at Heights and Hill Communit
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Brooklyn Next: The rhythm of a borough

Brooklyn Next is an inaugural, borough-wide celebration of Brooklyn’s musical talent, comprising main stage events at BAM (performances by Mos Def, Gordon Chambers, and Alice Smith), music in BAMcafé (two nights of music curated by Galapagos Art
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The Dominican diaspora explored

Dominican-American culture is the focus of a day-long interdisciplinary arts conference at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. Performances, discussion, a film and an art exhibition spotlight themes of identity, the search for a better life, in
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Even the animals in the jungle do it

If flowers and candy seem too ordinary to give to your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day, why not do something more exotic and arrange a date at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo?

Here, you can walk hand-in-hand with yo
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Oops! a bad note

recent article about the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s new season contained two inaccuracies. The Philharmonic is in its 53rd season, not its 52nd. Additionally, composer Osvaldo Golijov’s surname was misspelled.
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Persuasions live

The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s Black History Month celebration continues with a performance by The Persuasions, the country’s premier a cappella ensemble. This Brooklyn-based group will appear February 17 at 8 p.m.

Tickets, at $25
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Get your shot of cool brooklyn Jazz

Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus presents a series of jazz clinics with appearances by saxophonist Mike Rossi, pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, and jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein. All events are free and open to th
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Slay the dragon

Tock Tick, a new musical fantasy, with unique costuming by Brooklynite Kate Cusack, is now playing at Manhattan’s West End Theatre.

With a story by Tim Nevits and Gihieh Lee. book and lyrics by Tim Nevits and music by Gihieh Lee, the show, di

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