Rabbit rabbit and happy October, everybody! We may not be fully back to the frenzied cacophony of our pre-COVID lives yet, but at least Halloween is decidedly back on this year — not only is the Village Parade happening again, but more importantly so is my favorite annual event, the Great Pupkin dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park. There are lots of “returning to some semblance of a social life” developments afoot: museums, restaurants, bars, theaters, and concert venues are blazing ahead full steam, and…
Your September Culture Calendar
Labor Day has come and gone and here we are in back-to-school mode, a phenomenon that seems to persist no matter how long you’ve been out of school or how uncertain we are about when life will actually get back to normal around here. I was on vacation for the past 2 weeks and studiously avoiding the news, but between the reports from Afghanistan, the storm in Louisiana, the fires in Tahoe, the flooding in Brooklyn, the rising COVID death …
March culture calendar: Hang in there!
As we creep into spring with three viable vaccines and appointments increasingly available, it seems clear that we are teetering on the precipice of the world opening up again in relatively short order. Movie theaters are back at reduced capacity as of today, with the promise of more entertainment venues to come and even outdoor concerts on the horizon! It feels like there really is a chance that things might start to look like pre-pandemic life in the city around here a lot sooner than some of us may have thought a few weeks ago, and that is reason enough to feel hopeful for the future—even as it probably dredges up a variety of other emotions. As a person who writes a…
10 Culture Essentials for a Pandemic July
When everything went off the rails in March, we at Brooklyn Based had a discussion about the continued viability of our monthly Culture Essentials feature during a time when it seemed there would be no events to preview. The thought was to give it shot for April, highlighting the smattering of virtual gatherings that crossed our radar alongside new TV, movie, and book releases, with the understanding that after that we’d probably table this column…