On Friday August 27th, Force and Flow is providing another holistic workshop experience to Crown Heights residents.  Friday’s presentation is a soothing aural presentation entitled Sound Bath.  According to Force and Flow Founder Ophra Wolf: Sound Baths are an opportunity to immerse oneself...

Starting tonight, August 25th at 8:30, the Kings County Cinema Society will be curating movies at Launchpad the fourth Wednesday of everything month “until further notice (i.e. until we show something so depraved and inappropriate we are kindly asked to leave).” Tonight features a series...

Greetings, Seasonal Eaters. Brooklyn’s finest CSA is sharing its fresh bounty and I am here to give you tasty ideas for your harvest. I have combined fruits, vegetables and herbs to create lemongrass and wine steamed mussels, eggplant parmesan swiss, eggs in a bell pepper hole and more. You should...

Can one landlord transform a district?  Possibly.  We were recently introduced to a landlord, Frank, who owns properties on Nostrand Avenue between St. Marks and Bergen.  A Trinidadian native who has traveled the world and believes that Nostrand Avenue still has better to offer the world, Frank has...

Good news all you artist types out there.  The Crow Hill Community Association, which is coordinating the painting mural painting project on the construction fence at Eastern Parkway & Franklin, is still looking for artists to contribute to the mural. To submit to the Mural Project you will need: A...

The Breukelen Coffee House presents a new art opening: A Tree Grows In Breukelen August, Friday the 13th, 8pm. There’s a grand revealing in the back at 8pm of the ALL NEW extension of the coffee house, and the brand new stage for a grand future music venue! NO cover, FREE custom cocktails...

Art + Community + Elevation = SHOW and PROVE This is more than an art exhibit. This is about the commitment of two artists to enrich their communities and others around them. The idea behind ‘SHOW and PROVE’ is to provide a few emerging talented artists with an opportunity to showcase their...

Launchpad.  If you don’t know about them, you need to find out….(and the easiest way to start might be to search our blog for back posts about them  As many can attest, Launchpad is one of the rockingest (yes, rockingest) community groups around.  They offer free space to local arts...

From Reading Series Coordinator, Penina Roth: “Hilarity and Heartbreak” is the theme of tonight’s reading series — with this summer’s record heat and unfortunate violence, we thought we could all use some levity. We’re very excited, first of all, about Crown Heights...

We’ve been hinting at it for a while, but now, we’re talking about it officially … Destination Nostrand!  Yes folks, we are going to take on Nostrand Avenue and transform a gnarly, overgrown vacant lot into a Caribbean-away-from the Caribbean oasis for local residents and beyond. Drawing on...