Hey Prospect Heights (and all of NYC), we're super excited about this week's class on Bach taught by Scott Ordway. It's just in time for you to attend a performane of Bach's music at the NY Phil on Friday! Sign up!
This quick course will provide students with an overview of the transcendent vocal and instrumental music of Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It's designed for listeners, so we'll be looking at...
We're excited to partner again this month with the fine folks over at Fluent City to bring all of you a couple of their two-hour slang workshops (or any of their in-depth classes!) on the cheap.
These workshops are taught in English, so you won't need to be fluent in Spanish or French to pick up some fun phrases and avoid sounding like a silly American on the streets of Madrid or Paris.
The next French slang...
This month Society for the Advancement of Social Studies teams up with Urban Oyster Tours to bring you the history of booze!
Some of Urban Oyster's best tour guides enlighten us with a lecture on each of beer, wine, and whiskey. Plus the chance to win tickets to Urban Oyster’s new spring waterfront tour!
All the details:
Tuesday, March 5th
Public Assembly, 70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
Doors at 7pm
Free, RSVP...
Next Friday, March 8, join John Reinhardy, Brainery teacher and neighbor, for the opening of his photo exhibition for the opening of A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Berlin, Possessing and Processing Trauma. You can also participate in a silent aucition to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Get all the details and RSVP on Facebook.
When you go to Chinatown, you're morally obligated to buy strange and unfamiliar goods, then decipher (and eat) them back home. It's Chinatown Roulette!
Over the weekend I was poking around New York Supermarket, looking for roasted peanuts. While that didn't work out, I did find an incredible alternative: Bamboo Charcoal Peanuts.
I've dealt with enough foreign-language packaging to know a mistranslation when I see one. What...
