Alexandra Simon
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Double up! Bed-Stuy eatery gets prestigious dining honor
Photo by Caroline Ourso Double down: Geeta Brown, right, and her husband Noel, serve a customer inside their Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant A&A Bake And Double and Roti Shop, which was recently awarded the James Beard Foundation’s American Classics honor. And the award goes to… A Bedford-Stuyvesant Caribbean eatery was recognized as one of the country’s best community restaurants this month.… → Read More
‘After’ words: Actress pens memoir on overcoming abuse
She wrote from the bottom of her heart. → Read More
All that jazz: Slope Lounge welcomes the really big bands
Jumbo-sized jazz bands stop by the eatery every Monday night. → Read More
They mean business: Sisters return with Kwanzaa crawl
It’s black for the third time! → Read More
Fun-raising! Comics raise cash for Haiti
The joke’s on Haiti. → Read More
She’s doing OK! ‘Oklahoma’ is in her wheelhouse
Oh what beautiful warehouse! Oh what a beautiful play! → Read More
Art quake: Haitian exhibit shows art from ‘apocalyptic’ city
The show is Port-au-Prince charming! → Read More
Art and soul: Bklyn Museum celebrates art of the Black Power movement
It’s black and it’s beautiful. → Read More
Burglars caught on camera stealing from woman’s home
Plus a host of other crimes from Marine Park’s 63rd Precinct. → Read More
A guide to the Brooklyn Book Festival
It’s a reader’s paradise! → Read More
Fallen sons: Black mothers recreate Pieta in photo series
They are photos of fear. → Read More
Cultural cornucopia: Costumes and cuisine delight spectators at annual Caribbean parade
Millions of revelers queued up along Eastern Parkway on Monday for the 51st-annual West Indian Day Parade, which offered spectators a feast for the eyes — and stomachs, according to a vendor who peddled homemade cuisine along the route. → Read More
Do ‘the robot’: Collaboration dance fest features robotic team-up
You bop, she bop, and he ’bot! → Read More
‘Not this year’: Mayor skipping J’Ouvert, but says he plans to go within his lifetime
Revelers who come out for this year’s J’Ouvert parade can expect to celebrate among thousands of cops and hundreds of floodlights — but not Mayor DeBlasio, who said he won’t be attending the early morning festivities preceding the West Indian Day Parade on Sept. 3. → Read More
‘Not this year’: Mayor skipping J’Ouvert, but says he plans to go within his lifetime
Revelers who come out for this year’s J’Ouvert parade can expect to celebrate among thousands of cops and hundreds of floodlights — but not Mayor DeBlasio, who said he won’t be attending the early morning festivities preceding the West Indian Day Parade on Sept. 3. → Read More
Watching her step: Animator makes a moving art exhibit
A strange new stop-motion video exhibit of walking figures in Bay Ridge was inspired by a tragic incident from the artist’s family history. → Read More
Heightened security will return at next month’s J’Ouvert parade
The city this Labor Day will reprise the strict safety measures it implemented at last year’s early-morning J’Ouvert parade after the tight security prevented fatalities at the event where multiple people were killed in previous years. → Read More
Heightened security will return at next month’s J’Ouvert parade
The city this Labor Day will reprise the strict safety measures it implemented at last year’s early-morning J’Ouvert parade after the tight security prevented fatalities at the event where multiple people were killed in previous years. → Read More
Crossroads of reggae: Caribbean bands play Flatbush Junction
These musicians are putting down roots. → Read More
Crossroads of reggae: Caribbean bands play Flatbush Junction
These musicians are putting down roots. → Read More