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Thursday, February 15, 2007

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New works from S.E.M.

Brooklyn’s S.E.M. Ensemble presents “New Works” performed at Willow Place auditorium, 26 Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights, as part of reading of its New Compositions Workshop, February 15 at 8 p.m.

The S.E.M. Ensemble is under the b
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It’s fun, you landlubbers

Brooklyn was once an old port town. Most of that is now gone. Even Red Hook will lose its container port shortly. But you can relive a glimmer of that by-gone era at the Brooklyn Lyceum, which will host several events and performances harkening back to th
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David Del Tredici at 70; join the party

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici—recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music—celebrates his 70th birthday with a special concert at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music (BQCM), March 17 at 8 p.m.

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Classical Brooklyn

The third concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra’s 34th season will be held February 18 at 3 p.m. at the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights.

The orchestra, led by Artistic Director Nicholas Armstrong, will feature
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Biava Quartet live

Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music presents The Biava Quartet with guest artist clarinetist Gilad Harel in concert at 3 p.m., February 25 at The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 S. Oxford Street at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene.

The progr
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NYPD shouldn’t justify deadly force

Your sentence indicating that NYPD Sgt. John Pagnotta had a right to use deadly force to stop the car speeding toward him is not consistent with the police force regulation.

By you stating what you may consider the thing officers have a right to do
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School bus fiasco hurts Queens families

I write to you on behalf of thousands of school children and their families in my district who have been severely and unfairly inconvenienced by the recent changes to school bus routes.

I have been contacted by leaders of parents’ associati
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Store signs without English discriminate

The onus should not be on the Americans to learn the diverse languages of the immigrants from so many countries. My family were immigrants too, but there weren’t any bilingual or multilingual signs. Consequently, they all learned to speak English.
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Bloomberg should restore veteran center cuts

I am respectfully requesting that you reconsider your position on Veterans Resource Centers’ and provide for their adequate funding in the upcoming 2008 New York City budget.

As you are aware, support for our troops does not begin and end wi
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Winter bikinis

Raise awareness about global warming by stripping down to your bikinis and Speedos for hot beach action in the dead of winter as Circus The Party presents “Tide Is High-A Global Warming Beach Party,” February 24 at Galapagos, 70 N. 6th Street in
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Image & sound

On February 17, the space welcomes Elliott Sharp and Janene Higgins in an evening also featuring the work of R. Luke DuBois. Sharp, on guitar, clarinet and laptop, and Higgins, who offers a video mix, present “Suspension,” described as “a d
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Experience ‘Kool-Aid Luv’

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Theater Artist-in-Residence Baraka de Soleil and his company D Underbelly premiere “Koool-Aid Luv Odyssey,” a multimedia performance collage. The piece is performed by Baraka de Soleil, Sunder Ashni, Francine Sheffield
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Find the Lost Americans and more

Jalopy, a community arts center that includes performances, instruction, instrument sales and repair, a beautiful stage and espresso, features an eclectic line-up through the end of the month. Jalopy is at 315 Columbia Street, between Hamilton and Woodhul
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Irish steppers make all the right moves

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents Trinity Irish Dance Company on February 25 at 2 p.m.

The Company offers a highly-skilled presentation of progressive Irish step dance—hard-driving percussive power, lightnin
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Students and the Black Revolution

Medgar Evers College’s Black History Month Committee presents “Students and the Black Revolution Today,” a panel featuring past and present student activists from the Black Panther Party, the 1969 Cornell University Student Takeover, and Me

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