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BackFat: A Free Comedic Variety Show
January 28, 2014  8:15-10:00 p.m.
FREE!

61 Local
61 Bergen St., Cobble Hill
(Upstairs)

At the BackFat comedy show in Brooklyn, upstairs at 61 Local in Cobble Hill, this month you’ll see…
-The Lucas Bros (22 Jump Street, Fox’s Animation Domination, NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity, Just For Laughs, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)
-Comedian/writer Emmy Blotnick (Best Week Ever, Nikki and Sara Live, blogger for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)
-Comedian David Finklestein (Broadway Comedy Club)
-Music masterman Daniel Koren
Show starts promptly at 8:30 and goes till 10.
Hosted by Janet Manley, Emily Winter, and house music maid John Payne.

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/606743046047004/
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Alejandro Cartagena – The Car Poolers

11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Monday – Friday through January 31, 2014
FREE

United Photo Industries HQ, 111 Front Street, Suite 204  DUMBO
Last Chance! Closing Now!

Alejandro Cartagena (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues.

The Car Poolers is a project that continues my visual research on how the suburbs impact the landscape, the city and its inhabitants. I’ve been shooting the project for a year on Monterey’s highway 85 going south bound to one of the richest cities in Latin America, San Pedro Garza Garcia, one of 9 cities that conform the Metropolitan area. The images address overgrowth issues in Mexico, where suburbs are being built far from the urban centers, causing greater commutes and consumption of gas.
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Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry's Letters to "The Ladder"
 November 22, 2013–March 16, 2014

The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Suggested Donation, $12 ($8 62 and over)

This exhibition explores a largely unknown but significant aspect of Hansberry’s biography connecting her to the gay rights movement: the letters she wrote in 1957 to The Ladder, the first subscription-based lesbian publication in the United States. In these provocative letters, Hansberry drew on her own identity and life experiences to articulate the interconnected struggles of women, lesbians, and African Americans during the period. She pointed to her identification with the burgeoning feminist movement in a 1959 interview with Studs Terkel, saying that "the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women," adding that those who are "twice oppressed" often become "twice militant."
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Every Monday Night
Bring Out Your Vinyl

The Saint Catherine
 660 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217, Crown Heights
 Hours: 7pm to 2am

There will be a turntable set up. Bring your vinyl and come see who’s got the rarest, hippest, most obscure records in the neighborhood.

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Every Tuesday Night
8:00 p.m.
MANIFESTO!
A Weekly Stand-up Comedy Show

The People's Republic of Brooklyn
247 Smith Street, Carroll Gardens
FREE!

Every Tuesday at 8 pm, Tim Ellis and Mo Fathelbab host Manifesto! -- a comedy uprising in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. They bring a lineup of the best comedians in NYC and beyond to The People's Republic of Brooklyn -- a current hotbed of comic dissent. The revolution will be hilarious...and FREE!

The Tues, January 28 lineup features these amazing performers*:

Robert Barnett, Abbi Crutchfield, Sam Grittner, Thomas Attila Lewis, Marielena Logsdon, Paul Oddo

And stop by early to catch or to be a part of the free open mic THIS IS HAPPENING, hosted by Dustin Drury! The weekly mic starts at 6:30 pm (sign-up at 6).

*Lineup is subject to change

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Every Tuesday Night
Beer Tasting, every Tuesday night 7 PM

BierKraft
191 Fifth Ave., Betw. Berkeley Pl. and Union St. Park Slope
Beer Tasting! 'Nough said.
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Every Wednesday Night
The Mandingo Ambassadors
Every Wednesday at 10 p.m.

Barbès
376 Ninth St., (at 6th Avenue) Park Slope
Mamady Kouyate is a pioneer of the Guinean musical movement known as Authenticité. He played in various bands - his own band, Les Ambassadeurs du Mandingue, being one of them - but is probably best known as the guitarist in the classic Bembeya Jazz National. Kouyate, who now lives in NY, has reformed the Mandingo Ambassadors, updating the sound of his youth, but keeping it very close to the standard of Authenticité. The new All-Star band includes Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate, guitar, leader; Bebe Camara, vocal; Eudy Fernandez, trumpet; Oran Etkin, tenor sax, clarinet; Sylvain Leroux, flute, Fula flute, alto sax; Sam Dickey, guitar; Nick Cudahy, bass; Andy Algire, drums; Foluso Mimy, percussion.
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Every Saturday

Greenmarket at Grand Army Plaza
Grand Army Plaza 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Brooklyn’s biggest, at the entrance to Prospect Park
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Every Sunday
Comedy Night at The Knit "Front Bar"
 9:00 p.m. FREE! (21+)

The Knitting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, Williamsburg

Hosted by Hannibal Burress

Every Sunday night in the Front Bar of Knitting Factory Brooklyn, Hannibal Buress hosts: Comedy at The Knitting Factory with special guests each week. Past performances have included unannounced sets from Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, & more!