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photos by Les Brown
TASTE WG interviews participating bars and restaurants. Here is Carolyn Bane, Chef and Co-Owner of Pies ‘n’ Thighs. TASTE Williamsburg Greenpoint is on September 9th. For more info go to www.tastewg.com.
By Shayna Makaron
There are two amazing upcoming food-related volunteer opportunities in North Brooklyn, and each involves a fundraiser for a worthy cause in our community. The first is tonight at the Greenpoint Reformed Church where the Greenpoint Soup Kitchen Supper Club will be hosted. Proceeds from the supper club will help benefit Greenpoint Reformed Church’s soup kitchen and food pantry, which serves over a hundred homeless and underprivileged members of the community per week. Details here.
The second is the third annual TASTE Williamsburg Greenpoint event, a block party-style tasting event featuring of 40 restaurants, breweries and wineries from neighborhood. The event is a fundraiser for the completion of the Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center. TASTE will be held on the 9th, but there are volunteer opportunities beginning this weekend and ending on the day of the event. For each volunteer shift completed, volunteers will receive a ticket that gives the ticketholder four “tastes” (food samples) and two drinks at the event.
Photo by Ashley Corbin-Teich
By A.P. Smith
Green Fitness Studio
232 Varet Street (Bushwick)
www.greenfitnessstudio.com
By Laura Brown
On a casual evening stroll it’s unlikely you’d simply chance upon The Firehouse Space on Frost Street, but if you did, you’d surely be intrigued enough to enter. The Firehouse Space is compelling not just because it’s a beautifully renovated former firehouse from bygone days but most primarily because of the dynamic performances you’ll find there. It’s a place to experience the innovative and the inspirational.
Camouflage by Luisa Caldwell
By Julie Turley
I feel a bit sorry for the fabulous frocks at the b. conte boutique on North 9th Street. Since the end of April, one’s eyes are immediately directed above the merchandise where the work of local artists Luisa Caldwell and Mery Lynn McCorkle is on exhibit until May 23rd. In other words, go now to see art that transforms quotidian, decidedly low-brow materials into something transcendant.