The Early Word: A Very Brooklyn Fat Tuesday
Where to get your drink on before Lent.
1. Call it Carnival or Mardi Gras—by any name, it's one of the best parties of the year. Yes, today is Fat Tuesday, the last day of excess before the traditionally austere period of Lent leading up to Easter on the Christian calendar. And though there seems to be a dearth of celebrations in Fort Greene-Clinton Hill proper, we dug up two options nearby in Park Slope and Gowanus.
Mardi Gras, featuring High and Mighty Brass Band and Royal American Social Aid & Pleasure Club. Union Hall, 702 Union St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues. 7 p.m. $20.
Mardi Gras Day, featuring Underground Horns. Bell House, 149 7th St. between Second and Third avenues. 8 p.m. $8.
2. Rufus Wainwright's first foray into opera, "Prima Donna," meditates on the fine line between fame and failure. Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave. 7:30 p.m.
3. The Safe OUTside the System collective, an anti-violence program led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and gender non-conforming people of color, invites allies and friends to fight violence at their Volunteer Night. The Audre Lorde Project, 85 S. Oxford St. 7 p.m.
4. The Fiction Book Group discusses Rafael Yglesias’s novel, "A Happy Marriage," an autobiographical and devastatingly raw appraisal about what it means for two people to spend a lifetime together. Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St. 7:30 p.m.
5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect.
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New York City Opera Presents: Prima Donna
February 21, 2012 / February 23, 2012 / February 25, 2012 at 7:30 pmBrooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Howard Gilman Opera House) -
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY -
Safe OUTside the System Volunteer Night
February 21, 2012 at 7:00 pm–9:00 pm85 S Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY (Audre Lorde Project-Brooklyn Office, basement) -
Greenlight Fiction Book Group discusses A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
February 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm -
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY -
Union Hall
702 Union St, Brooklyn, NY
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The Bell House
149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY
