One of my favorite gifts for new parents used to be the delivery of homemade meals from Brooklyn-based Susie’s Supper Club. They stopped delivery to Brooklyn and NYC to make their delish dishes accessible to… Read More »Spinach Squares from Brooklyn’s Susie’s Supper Club
If you are looking for reasonably-priced tickets to dance, theatre and music, some of the best deals around can be had at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. Thanks to big corporation… Read More »Inexpensive Family Theatre: including the Nutcracker
As a big fan of madcap screwball comedies like “Some Like It Hot”, “Bringing Up Baby” and “Pillow Talk, watching the original influencers, vaudeville, is a must for me. Vaudeville is the main originator of… Read More »Squirm Burpee Circus Returns for “One Day Only”!
The DOE (Department of Education) loves their acronyms, so if you are getting started in the admission process- let me start by saying: The OECE (Office of Early Childhood Education) is doing a series of… Read More »Free Forum For Pre-K Families
This weekend’s hot list includes the Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup, a free soccer clinic, The Chocolate Show, Puppets on Film and the opening of BLDG 92 in our own Brooklyn Navy Yard. There are… Read More »Weekend Events: Quidditch Cup, Puppets On Film, BLDG 92 opens and more!
Brooklyn has so many writers that it isn’t all that surprising to find yourself watching a movie next to Jhumpa Lahiri at BAM or drinking coffee next to Jonathan Safran Foer at Sweet Melissa’s. So,… Read More »Brooklyn Literati Read For PS8
Gliding on freshly zambonied ice, sipping hot chocolate at break time, spinning perfectly on point- well, now I am just dreaming. But what isn’t a dream is to find inexpensive ice skates in Brooklyn. Good… Read More »Where to get used ice skates in Brooklyn
Friends of Carroll Park seem to always come up with some of the more interesting and meaningful events for the community and I was glad to hear that they, along with Court Street Merchants Association,… Read More »Veterans Day Observance in Carroll Park
Parents’ Alliance for Citywide Education (PACE) is a new organization founded by parent volunteers who represent each of New York City’s five Citywide G&T schools: Brooklyn School of Inquiry, NEST +m, STEM, TAG, and The… Read More »Parents’ Forum on Gifted and Talented Elementary Schools
Believe it or not, it’s actually ice skating season. Some ice rinks have started their fall programs already and others will being after Thanksgiving. All of them let you start up at any time. The… Read More »Ice Skating Lessons: Brooklyn, NYC and New Jersey