All Entries Tagged With: "Brooklyn"
Face The Music Ensemble to Perform World Premier at P.S. 321
Face the Music, an ensemble of 20 classically-trained musicians ranging from sixth to twelfth grade dedicated to performing today’s most compelling and creative new music, will be presented by Simone Dinnerstein’s PS 321 Neighborhood Concerts in a concert called “Beating Down the Doors” on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 7pm at PS 321 (180 7th [...]
The Ultimate Retreat-Massages And Martini’s
Massages and Martini’s, how decadent can it get? Body By Brooklyn is a traditional European Bath House but with a twist. Located in Historic Clinton Hill (my neighborhood yahoo) on the ground floor of a converted chocolate factory. I have gone to this fabulous spa many times over the last two years, by myself, with [...]
A Charlie Brown Christmas With Jazz Trio…LIVE, The Brooklyn Lyceum
I am super excited to be part of this wonderful NYMetropolista family. To be given the opportunity to share with you any new, exciting, off the beaten path places,activities I come across on my many adventures with my family throughout New York City I am a little late with this review with just three more dates left [...]
Music Adventures at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music
Music Adventures at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music (58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn) is a dynamic, innovative program that incorporates the physical and rhythmic aspects of music to start children on the path to not only learning music, but also to experience the fun and joy that music can bring into their lives. Celebrating 25 years [...]
Fun with the Fish at the NY Aquarium
We took advantage of the last days of summer and had an excursion to the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn. We drove from Hoboken, but it’s easy to get there on the subway from Manhattan. The aquarium is in several separate buildings and is best enjoyed – especially with very young children – in warmer [...]
Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
Nobody could be more surprised than I am that I’m writing this article about the Brooklyn Book Festival as a kids destination … I am so surprised, in fact, that I went to the festival without my kids! I wanted to go to the festival as an avid book reader and aspiring author and my [...]
Ride back in time on the Prospect Park Carousel
When we first moved to Brooklyn and were invited to a birthday party at the Prospect Park Carousel, I didn’t realize that the party would have the carousel all to itself. The site of the kids riding the horses over and over for two hours brought back a flood of memories from my own childhood [...]
